On Wednesday 27 April 2011 12:53 PM, Akshay Mishra wrote:
We have used gEDA for our Cortex-M3 based designs. The schematic is completely in gEDA. However, for layout we had to use commercial tool for the size required.
gEDA works like a charm and I could not but smile when I could even 'make' my schematics. :-))
If any of the members have been able to exploit layout with open-source tools for>2 layers please let me know, I'd love to share some notes.
-Akshay Principal Engineer, DSPWorks, www.dspworks.in
I have used Kicad in many projects. Schematic capture is very good. For PCB kicad with freerouting.net is good combination. But now I am doing a complex design which will have 6+ layers with BGAs+DDR2. I am using kicad, please let me know if some one has done design of similar complexity with any open source EDA tool. Also I would like to know of major limitations, which might require special attention.
Thanks And Regards Balwinder Singh