Electric

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