Designer III Blog October Archive

Reproducible Research – Studies in Open Source Hardware Design

I came a across a nice plug for gEDA, the schematic and circuit board layout program I prefer to use over Protel/Altium.

"Reproducible Research – Studies in Open Source Hardware Design" By John Blyler

"Dr. Gary Ray, associate technical fellow at the Boeing Corporation, sat down to discuss his personal views with System-Level Design. What follows are excerpts of that interview. Ray's comments are his opinions, not those of Boeing."

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"Ray: Just like open source uses GNU, you would have to use open source EDA tools to achieve reproducible design. They are not as well developed as the GNU suite for software, but they are coming along nicely. One website is: http://geda.seul.org/ The promise is that just with open source multiplying the ability of people everywhere to collaborate, reproducible design would allow people to collaborate on hardware instead of having the designs all be proprietary. Great promise, but hard to change the culture."

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