[time-nuts] Schematic capture, anyone?

Geraldo Lino de Campos geraldo at decampos.net
Fri Feb 24 02:21:56 UTC 2012


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> Jim Hickstein said the following on 02/23/2012 07:38 PM:
> > What do people use these days for schematic capture (and just possibly
> > PCB layout), for low-budget homebrew stuff? It's been so long since I
> > did this, I still own a T-square and a pile of contemporary relics like
> > rules and triangles. I'll get out my pencil sharpener if I have to. But
> > really, this must be a solved problem by now. For less than $300? I only
> > need TTL, not striplines or any black magic like that.
> >
> > I'm a Mac shop, but can of course run Windows if need be. And to make
> > matters worse, I prefer ANSI logic symbology over shovels-and-spades
> > (or, really, over plain rectangles where you're expected to know what
> > the part number means). This comes from exposure to Control Data, who
> > were big on it back in the day. I even used to be on the mailing list of
> > the standards committee. I suppose that all sank without a trace? If
> > it's still controversial, I apologize in advance for trolling.
> >
>

I suggest the pair Tinycad + freepcb. Both are free, without restrictions
on size or the number of layers (nowadays, it is next to impossible to use
the fine pitch chips with less then four layers). It is very easy to design
your own symbols in Tinycad, and I suggest you do that. Freepcb has a large
number of standard footprints, and it easy do design your own, if required.
FWIW, I use the batchpcb service for four layers boards - fast and cheap
for small designs.

tinycad.sourceforge.net
www.freepcb.com
batchpcb.com

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Geraldo Lino de Campos
geraldo at decampos.net


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