CERN BE-CO-HT contribution to KiCad
This ohwr.org project has been set up to facilitate the contribution of
CERN to the KiCad Printed Circuit Board design tool
development.
KiCad is a Free/Libre Open Source Software
Tool which runs on GNU/Linux, Windows and Apple OS X. It is licensed
under the GPL license.
The objective of this project is to help enhance KiCad in such a way
that it becomes an efficient tool for PCB design which people can use to
share their design information without compromising productivity. We do
this in close collaboration with the main KiCad developers.
We think that KiCad can do to PCB design what the gcc compiler did to software: ensure there are no artificial barriers to sharing so that design and development knowledge can flow more freely.
This contribution is part of our efforts in Open Source
Hardware. We describe our planned tasks and their progress using
a list of work packages.
Contributions to KiCad will happen through the KiCad developers mailing
list, in the standard ways defined by the main KiCad
developers.
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Support of free software in public institutions:
At the Octave conference in Geneva the presentation Support of free software in public institutions: the KiCad case will be given by Javier Serrano and Tomasz Wlostowski from CERN. KiCad is a tool to help electronics designers develop Printed Circuit Boards (PCB). CERN’s BE-CO-HT section has been contributing to its development since 2011. These efforts are framed in the context of CERN’s activities regarding Open Source Hardware (OSHW), and are meant to provide an environment where design files for electronics can be shared in an efficient way, without the hurdles imposed by the use of proprietary formats.
a commitment to freedom
In his message KiCad: A commitment to freedom, Javier Serrano thanks the KiCad supporters for their generous donations through the CERN & Society Foundation.
CERN devs demo SPICE integration in KiCad
Our colleagues Maciej Sumiński (Orson) and Tomasz Włostowski recently submitted a proposal in the KiCad dev mailing list to integrate SPICE simulation into KiCad, using ngspice as a shared library. The demo video can be seen here.