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Electric - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Electric
Electric is a sophisticated electrical CAD system for the design of integrated circuits.
It can handle many forms of design, including:
- Custom Integrated-Circuit layout
- Schematics
- Hardware description languages
Electric has these CAD facilities:
- Design rule checking
- Electrical rule checking
- Simulation (built-in and external, with waveform display)
- Generation (ROMs, PLAs, Pad Frames, Fill, Implant coverage, etc.)
- Placement
- Routing
- Silicon compilation
- Network consistency checking (LVS)
- Logical Effort analysis
- Compaction
Electric can design these types of integrated-circuits:
- CMOS (many variations)
- Newer layout technologies (thin film, carbon nanotube, photonics, etc.)
- Older layout technologies (nMOS, Bipolar, BiCMOS, etc.)
- Abstract (digital filters, temporal logic, etc.)
Electric handles these file formats:
- CIF I/O
- GDS I/O
- EDIF I/O
- LEF and DEF I/O
- DXF I/O
- SUE Input
- Gerber Input
- Bookshelf Input
- VHDL I/O
- Verilog Output
- EAGLE, PADS, and ECAD Output
- PostScript, SVG, HPGL, and PNG Output
Electric is written in Java, so it runs on all operating systems.
Read more about CAD facilities, IC design types, and file formats.
Read about the history of Electric.
Read the online user's manual.
Read Steven Rubin's textbook on CAD tools,
specifically the chapter on Electric.
Visit Electric's external website.
Peruse Electric's discussion groups: Google,
GNU.
Download the latest version of Electric from
ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/electric/
or any of the many mirrors.
Return to GNU's home page.
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gnu@gnu.org.
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Updated:
26 Sep 2017 smr