Electric

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GNU Electric

https://www.gnu.org/software/electric/
GNU CAD system for IC and Schematic design.

Electric is a CAD program for designing electrical circuits, handling custom IC layout, schematic drawing and hardware description language specifications. Several CAD operations are supported, such as rule checking and simulation. Many different types of designs can be produced and input or output in a wide variety of formats.

GNU Electric offers a wide range of synthesis and analysis tools for working on the circuitry, including design rule checking, simulation, routing, layout vs. schematic, logical effort… It also has many importers and exporters for interfacing to other EDA (Electronic Design Automation) systems. It even has a constraint system for managing chip layout.

This is a GNU package:electric

Download

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/electric/electric-9.08.jar

version 9.08 (stable)
released on 17 April 2025

OpenPGP signature URL: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/electric/electricBinary-9.08.jar.sig

Categories

• Business:cad
• Programming-language:java
• Runs-on:GNU/Linux
• Runs-on:Windows
• Runs-on:BSD
• Runs-on:OS X
• Science:engineering
• Use:education
• Use:science
• Works-with:cad

Licensing

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License

GPLv3orlater

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Genium

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19 April 2025

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
Steven M. Rubin	Maintainer

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
Wikidata	General	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1970665
Savannah	VCS Repository Webview	https://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/electric/
Savannah	VCS Repository Webview	https://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/electric/
	Download	https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/electric/
	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnu-electric/
Savannah	Developer	https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/electric/
Debian	Developer	https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/electric
	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-electric/
	Download	https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/electric/

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Required to use	Apache Harmony
Required to use	Java version 17
Required to use	OpenJDK

This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 19 April 2025.

Version comment

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-04/msg00011.html

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