- XCircuit
Infobox Software
name = XCircuit
caption = Xcircuit screenshot
author = Tim Edwards
developer = Tim Edwards
genre =Diagramming software
latest release version = 3.4.26
latest release date =June 14 ,2006
latest preview version = 3.6.124
latest preview date =September 17 ,2007
operating system =Cross-platform
license = GPL
website = [http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/ http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/]XCircuit is a
Unix /X11 (and Windows, too, with an X-Server running) program for drawing publishable-quality electrical circuit schematic diagrams and related figures, and produce circuit netlists through schematic capture. XCircuit regards circuits as inherently hierarchical, and writes both hierarchicalPostScript output and hierarchicalSPICE netlists. Circuit components are saved in and retrieved from libraries which are fully editable. XCircuit does not separate artistic expression from circuit drawing; it maintains flexibility in style without compromising the power of schematic capture.XCircuit was written and is maintained by Tim Edwards, currently with Multigig Inc., formerly with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. XCircuit started life in the summer of 1993 as a drawing program to render circuit diagrams for an undergraduate electrical engineering course in the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering Part-time programs. Since then, it has expanded to encompass schematic capture and is used by people all over the world for both presentations and as an EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tool.
External links
* [http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/ Main site]
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