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Good free or open source software for electronic schematic simulation and PCB design

Hi all,

Does anyone know any free or open source software(s) can simulate
digital volt meter, oscilloscope and generate the final PCB layout from
it?

Thanks,
Jimmy
 
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Eeyore

Jan 1, 1970
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Hi all,

Does anyone know any free or open source software(s) can simulate
digital volt meter, oscilloscope and generate the final PCB layout from
it?

Did you take English lessons ?

Graham
 
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Joel Kolstad

Jan 1, 1970
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Does anyone know any free or open source software(s) can simulate
digital volt meter, oscilloscope and generate the final PCB layout from
it?

Mmmm... LTSpice and gEDA, perhaps?

Google "free eda tools" or something; you'll get plenty of hits.
 
Thank you very much for all pointers :) And I'll look at them later.
Have been playing with Verilog lately which triggers the interest back
to some good-old electronic theories.
Wouldn't it be nice to write code in Verilog then _convert_ to an
electronic schematic diagram for analysis, or even _produce_ a PCB from
it and have a working circuit ... by using the same software tool!
Guess there's no one tool does it all, right? If there's, it won't be
cheap ... well, not affordable as a hobby ... for now.
 
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Frank Bemelman

Jan 1, 1970
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Eeyore said:
Did you take English lessons ?

I skipped simulating the digital volt meter, oscilloscope and
generating the final PCB, and simply bought both of them.
 
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Joel Kolstad

Jan 1, 1970
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Wouldn't it be nice to write code in Verilog then _convert_ to an
electronic schematic diagram for analysis, or even _produce_ a PCB from
it and have a working circuit ... by using the same software tool!

Not really. Unless you're doing a really large Verilog design, it'll most
likely fit into a single part (e.g., FPGA or CPLD), so there's little point in
the guys who write Verilog synthesis & place/route tools to try to do PCB
design as well.

The big-guns of HDL simulation -- ModelTech and Aldec -- do have integrated
design entry & simulation, and you can probe around during a simulation on a
"schematic" that contains, e.g., block diagrams of your Verilog modules.
Although they're calling external programs to do it, they also provide
seamless synthesis & place/route from within their IDEs. In general the best
EDA solutions end up using different vendors tools for solving different
problems, but try to tie them all together in a nice "flow."
 
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