Last week, Autodesk announced their purchase of CadSoft Eagle, one of the most popular software packages for electronic design automation and PCB layout. Eagle is famous for the free version of its ...

The hardest part of any PCB design is adding parts and components. You shouldn’t use random part libraries, and creating your own part libraries is just a pain. Why have we endured this pain for so ...

CadSoft Computer’s latest version of its Eagle PCB design software now offers mechanical CAD design tools with the integration of the Fusion 360 tool from Autodesk. The aim is to bring together all ...

Changes to schematic capture and PCB layout tool Eagle have been announced by former owner Farnell. German Eagle parent company CadSoft Computer, not to be confused with other firms called variations ...

It’s easy to see why confusion abounds when looking for free PCB design software that’s worth a likely steep learning-curve effort. Free used to mean watered down. Today, however, programs that fell ...