gEDA Project

Spec sheet

Product

gEDA is a suite of Electronic Design Automation tools for electrical circuit design, schematic capture, simulation, prototyping, and production.Read 11 Oct 2026 · geda.sourceforge.net

Audience

The project was started to provide free EDA tools for UNIX.Read 11 Oct 2026 · geda.sourceforge.net

Support

The project README points users to its documentation wiki, the geda-user mailing list, and the gEDA Answers page on Launchpad for help.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

License

The project describes its tools as a GPL suite.Read 11 Oct 2026 · geda.sourceforge.net

Attribute editing

gattrib is a spreadsheet-like program for bulk editing component attributes.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Build requirements

Building from source requires a C/C++ compiler, Make, pkg-config, gettext, lex, awk, and listed development libraries.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Development platform

The tools are developed mainly on GNU/Linux, with effort to support other UNIX variants.Read 11 Oct 2026 · geda.sourceforge.net

Features

The suite includes schematic capture, attribute management, bill of materials generation, netlisting into over 20 formats, analog and digital simulation, and PCB layout.Read 11 Oct 2026 · geda.sourceforge.net

Netlisting

gnetlist parses schematics and generates outputs including netlists for PCB layout tools, bills of materials, and design rule check reports.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

PCB workflow

gsch2pcb is a command-line utility for streamlining workflows that use PCB and gschem together.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Schematic editor

gschem is a schematic editor.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Security and compliance

The pages reviewed describe GPL licensing but do not state security certifications or compliance claims.Read 11 Oct 2026 · geda.sourceforge.net

Symbol checking

gsymcheck checks schematic symbol files for common errors.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

• Electrical Design Software#21 of 417.6