Electric - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

Electric

[icon of an electrical socket]

Electric is a sophisticated electrical CAD system that can handle many forms of circuit design, including:

Custom IC layout (ASICs)
Schematic drawing
Hardware description language specifications

Electric has these CAD operations:

Design rule checking
Electrical rule checking
Simulation and simulation interface (many options)
Generation (ROMs, PLAs, Pad Frames, etc.)
Compaction
Routing
VHDL compilation
Silicon compilation
Network consistency checking (LVS)
Logical Effort analysis
Project Management

Electric can display these types of design:

MOS (many CMOS and nMOS variations)
Bipolar and BiCMOS
Schematics and printed circuits
Digital filters, Temporal logic
Artwork

Electric handles these file formats:

CIF I/O
GDS I/O
EDIF I/O
DXF I/O
SUE Input
VHDL I/O
Verilog Output
EAGLE, PADS, and ECAD Output
PostScript, HPGL, and PNG output

Electric runs on these platforms:

UNIX
Macintosh
Windows

Read the technical specifications for Electric.

Read the history of Electric.

Find out more from the people who wrote Electric.

Subscribe to the Electric discussion list or the Electric bug list.

Read the online user's manual.

Read Steven Rubin's textbook on CAD tools, specifically the chapter on Electric.

Download the latest version of Electric from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/electric/ or any of the many mirrors.

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Updated: 1 Nov 2005 smr