Our Top 10 printed circuit design software programmes

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Autodesk EAGLE

EAGLE has the advantage of being one of the PCB design software heavyweights. At a reasonable cost of $500/year, it has a significant community that puts tutorials online. It also has an extensive component library and runs in a Mac OS X or Linux environment.

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2

Altium Designer

Some people still use Protel, the former version of Altium Designer. The reasons vary from one user to the other and, as seen above, software assessments can be very subjective:

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3

Proteus

Combined with Proteus VSM, it provides a complete solution to edit flow diagrams and a hardware gallery for a built-in Arduino and Raspberry Pi development environment.

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proteus VSM

Combined with Proteus VSM, it provides a complete solution to edit flow diagrams and a hardware gallery for a built-in Arduino and Raspberry Pi development environment.

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Proteus PCB design

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Sprint-Layout is an electronic prototype design software published by Abacom. Using good ergonomics and capacities worthy of professional software, combined with a very competitive price, Sprint-Layout has become unavoidable for electronics engineers.

7

KiCad

KiCad is an open source, free printed circuit design software suite. It was developed by Jean-Pierre Charras from the Grenoble IUT in France in 1992. This design software includes diagram management, PCB routing and 3D modelling possibilities for electronics engineers.

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OrCAD

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Designspark Electrical

DesignSpark is an electronic CAD software programme born of the collaboration between the world leading component distributor RS Components and the Number One Systems software developer.

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Sprint-Layout is an electronic prototype design software published by Abacom. Using good ergonomics and capacities worthy of professional software, combined with a very competitive price, Sprint-Layout has become unavoidable for electronics engineers.

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CADSTAR

Cadstar is another design tool for the simplest to the most complex multi-layer PCBs. Originally developed by Rascal-Redac, this software entered the Zuken portfolio, a Japanese multinational that pioneered electronics CAD software, founded in 1976 in Yokohama.

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Sprint-Layout is an electronic prototype design software published by Abacom. Using good ergonomics and capacities worthy of professional software, combined with a very competitive price, Sprint-Layout has become unavoidable for electronics engineers.

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PADS PCB Design

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