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Message started by pcardoso73 on Jul 3^rd, 2013, 11:42am

Title: Free CAD Software
Post by pcardoso73 on Jul 3^rd, 2013, 11:42am

Dear all,

Unfortunately, I am 2000 km away from my University and, from here (Switzerland) I can't have to Cadence.

To keep going with some work, I am looking for a piece of software that can do basic schematic design/simulation and, as well, layout.
I found the LTSpice and it seems to be quite good. However I believe it lacks noise analysis (especially phase-noise). On top of this I need to do some basic layout, and extract it.

My main problem with free software is that I don't know how to integrate a PDK such as the free PDK, into LTSpice and/or Electric VLSI.

Do you know good approaches to my problem ? After this I will need, as well, a freeware Verilog/Verilog-A software for designing a BIST block.

Thanks a lot.
Cheers,
Pedro

Title: Re: Free CAD Software
Post by Murat H. Eskiyerli on Aug 11^th, 2013, 7:43am

Although I haven't used this myself, it shows promise:

http://www.layouteditor.net/

Title: Re: Free CAD Software
Post by Aanoit on Sep 2^nd, 2013, 8:14am

Now that it has LTSpice 'built in' you should consider PCBArtist. It's free and works quite well.

pcbartist dot com