Re: Electronics software

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 09:00:12PM +0000, Al Hudson wrote:
> 
>  Spice. Urggghh (shudders). It seems wierd, though, that all the
> electronics resources I use on the net are based on *.hut.fi. They have
> everything I've ever needed (VGA 2 PAL circuit diagrams, for example), and
> I've never found anywhere else quite as good for amateur electronics... ho
> hum, just an observation ;)

	I was surprised when it started downloading the links page...
There was a biiiig delay...

> PS. One thing I've never found - pcb routing software. Not that I use it
> anyway, I generally find that routing software only works on double-sided
> or better. How awful.

	I've been told that Eagle is out for linux. Behold!
http://www.cadsoft.de. They actually got a limited version you can
download for free. I used to use it on MS-DOS, and it was quite handy.
There's also xpcb (free-ish, IIRC). The thing is, they've got a rather
old-fashioned look with all those standard X11 widgets around :)

	Regards,
	José
-- 
José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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