2020 update
At the moment the CoralEDA project is suspended as the only active participant
is the pcb-rnd project. CoralEDA may restart later, when the ringdove
suite is mature enough or when suitable participants are found.
Summary
![[coralEDA logo]](resources/logo128.png) | coralEDA |
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is an umbrella project for a collection of free/open source EDA related software
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Focus
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Electronic Design Automation: computer aided electronic design
related utilities.
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Mission
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Instead of providing a monolithic EDA software suite, coralEDA
is a collection of independent, small projects that combine into
an ecosystem of tools (following the best
UNIX traditions on modularization and simplicity).
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Decentralized
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coralEDA has no code of its own, merely coordinates existing, actively
developed projects.
Member projects are developed independently, each having their own
developer and leadership, working according to their own
technological/methodological choices
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Interoperability
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coralEDA makes effort to get member software projects to work well together
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Two-tier construction
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In the tight ring of coralEDA, there are projects who invest
effort and time to form a tightly coupled ecosystem of EDA-related
software. This effort is actively coordinated by the coralEDA team.
There are fewer projects in the tight ring, but a lot of connections
and practical work-flows between these projects.
In the loose ring of coralEDA, there are projects that happen
to work well together with those projects in the tight ring. This
loose coupling allows less connected projects to join.
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Comments, feedback, suggestions
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live chat with the developers or mail to: coraleda (at) igor2.repo.hu
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Support and hosting
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CoralEDA is trying to support member projects by coordinating the
interoperability effort, helping users to find the best tool for
their needs among the projects, and optionally providing
free of charge hosting (VCS, IRC, mailing list, web, web services)
for member projects.
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Member projects
Tight ring
pcb-rnd: Printed Circuit Board design and conversion
genxproj: generic, configurable Graphical Project Manager
edakrill: user content sharing (footprints, symbols, scripts)
tEDAx: interchange file format designed for ease of implementation
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Loose ring
xschem*: lightweight, top-down schematics capture/editor
gerbv: gerber viewer
c-pcb@: lightweight autorouter
(Projects marked with * are heading to the tight ring)
(Projects marked with @ are heading out from coralEDA)
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