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Summary

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 is a free/open source Electronic Design Automation suite

that offers a schematics editor, a PCB editor , a gerber/excellon viewer

modular, toolkit approach with stand-alone tools

fits well in a UNIXy workflow

supports CLI and server applications

active development, frequent releases

friendly and efficient developer and user community

user scripting in a dozen scripting language

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Supported platforms
Linux desktop (various distributions, from source)
official packages in Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mageia, Kali, Parrot, PureOS, Raspbian
Precompiled binaries for any x86_64 Linux
Windows (7 or newer)
OpenBSD (Likely: any BSD not older than 25 years)
Mac OS X
(Likely: any 90's or newer UNIX system with motif, seen working on IRIX 5.3, AIX 7, Solaris)
Screen resolution from as small as 800x600 up to HiDPI
GUI options: gtk2-gdk, gtk2-gl, gtk4-gl, (motif/lesstif)

What is -rnd?

RiNgDove is an EDA suite that includes:

a schematics editor: sch-rnd

a PCB editor: pcb-rnd

a PCB autorouter: route-rnd

a CAM viewer: camv-rnd

a software lib: librnd

or all in one: suite

 

user contributed addons: edakrill

 

Why use Ringdove?

small and quick

minimal dependencies

optimized for both CLI and GUI

scriptable

UNIX mindset

excellent user support