Hi,
It is certainly possible to build things with gEDA, and the PCB package
they adopted. Eagle is only free for non-commercial use, and with limits
on the PCB size. By commerical standards, Eagle is pretty basic. Its not
really much more sophisticated than gEDA at this time. It is cross
platform, though, which is quite helpful for many of us. Eagle is
popular with silicon vendors, as they can give reference stuff to
customers, and the customers can actual read it just by downloading free
tools.
Regards,
Steve
Garst R. Reese wrote:
I doubt it. I've watched gEDA for some years. It simply has not
attracted enough developers. CadSoft Eagle generously provides a "free
for non-commercial use" package, and I will happily purchase their
product when I get a commercial product out. OTOH, the mspgcc tools have
super support, and kick ass. Many thanks to both (and, of course, my
"alma-mater" TI.)
Garst
Russell Nelson wrote:
This is probably off-topic, but it's less off-topic here than it might
be in a bunch of different places. Has anybody build an MSP system
from start to finish using open source tools? Starting with gschem,
or gEDA, or whatever, then going to PC boards, and building, and of
course the obvious mspgcc programming.
