Linux Resources for EEs

Programming & Development Hardware

• Wojciech Zabolotny's Free single-sided evaluation board with download capability for 8051, 8052 and related microprocessors, with Linux utilities.
• Picprog, Wojciech Zabolotny's Design for a PIC programmer with margining support.

Programming Software

• Jaakko Hyvätti, PIC16F84 Programmer for Linux
• Newfound Electronics has Linux software for TM4 programmers.

EDA Software

• Cadsoft has done an excellent port of it's Eagle PCB Design package to Linux.
• gEDA, GPL Electronic Design Automation, has made significant progress in assembling a free EDA suite for Unix.
• PCB, a free PCB design package for Unix.
• Xcircuit, a free schematic capture program.
• Electric, a free VLSI design package.
• Bartels AutoEngineer PCB Design Software.
• YA-EDA, "An all-in-one EDA solution for Linux".
• QCAD, a drawing program for Linux.

Analysis Software

• Dinotrace, an X11 Waveform Viewer.
• Vipec, a tool for the analysis of high frequency, linear electrical networks.
• Octave, a free Matlab-like tool.

Assemblers

• gpasm, James Bowman's MPASM-compatible assembler for Microchip PICmicro microcontrollers. James Bowman's website is down and most work on gpasm in recent months has been done by Scott Dattalo.
• AVA Assembler for Atmel AVR, written mostly by Uros Platise. AVA is a new assembler and is not meant to be source-compatible with other assemblers. It has very nice support for segmented memory, and is designed to be portable to other processors.

Compilers

• One of the most commonly-used compilers for Electrical Engineering is of course the GNU C Compiler, GCC. In addition to the source code, a good place to find a list of supported chips is the Egcs readings page.
• One experimental GCC port of particular note is to the Atmel AVR 8-bit architecture. This port was done by Denis Chertykov and is hosted at Uros Platise's Micro Tools for Linux Page
• Wouter van Ooijen's JAL (Just Another Language).
• Hi-Tech Software's excellent C Compilers are available for Linux (but Clyde, do they sell at twice the price?)

Emulators, Debuggers

Simulators

• Scott Dattalo's gpsim, a GPL'd simulator for PIC microcontrollers.

Services

• Alberta Printed Circuits is happy to process printed circuit board designs done with Eagle and PCB.

Lab Software

• Signal Generation tools for Linux and /dev/dsp, (or try a download from ibiblio) by Jim Jackson
• GTKwave, a GTK-based signal viewer for Linux.
• Bitgen, a program for converting digital bitstreams to analog voltage sources suitable for circuit simulation in programs such as SPICE and Spectre
• Glove, Data acquisition, manipulation, and analysis program for X-Windows.
• Printer Port Programming Tool. PPPT is a testing tool and visual programming language for the printer port. Its purpose is to provide a simple point-and-click development environment for your custom-made printer port electronics projects.
• CADC, a Linux Driver for the Conrad Electronic serial ADC (now AKA the Linear Technology serial ADC).

Link Pages

• EG3's Embedded Software Page has links to several subpages with Linux-related resources.
• Alberta Printed Circuits is happy to process printed circuit board designs done with Eagle and PCB.
• Paul Vollebregt's GNUPIC page.
• Veripool, links to free and public domain Verilog resources.

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