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Cad Soft - Eagle: EAGLE (Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor) Is A Proprietary ECAD

EAGLE is a proprietary ECAD program produced by Cad Soft in Germany that is commonly used by electronics enthusiasts. It contains a schematic editor for designing circuit diagrams and a PCB layout editor. EAGLE includes a basic autorouter and accepts PCB designs from many fabrication houses without needing to export files. It is popular among hobbyists because it offers both a free basic version and a low-cost non-profit edition.

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Cad Soft - Eagle: EAGLE (Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor) Is A Proprietary ECAD

EAGLE is a proprietary ECAD program produced by Cad Soft in Germany that is commonly used by electronics enthusiasts. It contains a schematic editor for designing circuit diagrams and a PCB layout editor. EAGLE includes a basic autorouter and accepts PCB designs from many fabrication houses without needing to export files. It is popular among hobbyists because it offers both a free basic version and a low-cost non-profit edition.

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CAD SOFT - EAGLE

EAGLE (Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor) is a proprietary ECAD


program produced by Cad Soft in Germany (American marketing division: Cad Soft USA). It is
very commonly used by private electronics enthusiasts, because there is a free limited version for
non-profit use and it is available in English and German. Cad Soft has released versions for
Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
EAGLE contains a schematic editor, for designing circuit diagrams and a PCB layout editor,
which allows back annotation to the schematic.
EAGLE includes a basic but functional autorouter, or alternatively manual routing can be
performed.
PCBs designed in EAGLE are accepted by a large amount of PCB fabrication houses without the
need to export.
EAGLE is very popular with hobbyists because both a basic free edition (with a lower feature
set) and a low cost non-profit edition are available.

Schematic capture or schematic entry is a step in the design cycle of electronic


design automation (EDA) at which the electronic diagram, or electronic schematic of the
designed electronic circuit is created by a designer. This is done interactively with the help of a
schematic capture tool also known as schematic editor.
The circuit design is the very first step of actual design of an electronic circuit.
Typically sketches are drawn on paper, and then entered into a computer using a schematic
editor. Therefore schematic entry is said to be a front-end operation of several others in the
design flow.

Despite the complexity of modern components – huge ball grid arrays and tiny
passive components – schematic capture is easier today than it has been for many years. CAD
software is easier to use and is available in full-featured expensive packages, very capable mid-
range packages that sometimes have free versions and completely free versions that are either
open source or directly linked to a printed circuit board fabrication company.

In past years, schematic diagrams with largely discrete components were fairly
readable however with the newer high pin-count parts and with the almost universal use of
standard letter-sized paper, schematics have become less so. Many times, there will be a single
large part on a page with nothing but pin reference keys to connect it to other pages.

Readability levels can be enhanced by using buses and super buses, related pins
can be connected into a common bus and routed to other pages. Buses don't need to be just the
traditional address or data bus directly linked pins. A bus grouping can also be used for related
uses, such as all analog input or all communications related pin functions.

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