Kicad Open Source EDA

Designed and written by Jean-Pierre Charras, a researcher at LIS (Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux) and a teacher in IUT de Saint Martin d'Hères.(France), in the field of electrical engineering and image processing.

Kicad is an open source (GPL) software for the creation of electronic schematic diagrams and printed circuit board artwork.

Kicad Open Source EDA

KiCad consists of ..

  • kicad - the project manager
  • eeschema - the schematic editor.
  • cvpcb - the footprint selector for components used in the circuit design.
  • pcbnew - the PCB layout program.
  • gerbview - the Gerber (photoplotter documents) viewer.
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