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Welcome to the official KiCad Wiki!
KiCad - is a GPL'd suite of programs for EDA (Electronic Design Automation).
More detailed info about KiCad programs...
Please feel free to create your own sections on any KiCad related topics. There are a few sections already in the works. Please browse through and update the pages as you see fit. If you come to a page and find it's been replaced by spam content simply restore it to a previous revision. This wiki is built on the same code-base as the Wikipedia, which should be familiar to most users.
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Short news
- 15.07.2008: New version of KiCad.
- 29.04.2008: Component library updated.
- 15.03.2008: KiCad divided into 3 parts.
- 22.11.2007: The sources of release candidate available at Download area.
- 20.11.2007: New release candidate available at author's homepage
- 12.08.2007: KiCad document translation files moved from Yahoogroups to KicadDocTransFiles
- 26.07.2007: In the KICAD Release of the FPGAlibre Project you can find unofficial Debian Packages for Etch, Version 20070702.
- 22.06.2007: New version of KiCad
- 21.06.2007: kicad.bokeoa.com/wiki migrated to www.kicad-eda.org/wiki
- 20.06.2007: http://www.kicad-eda.org now alias for http://kicad.sourceforge.net
- 08.06.2007: Translation of KiCad interface to Polish is complete
- 25.05.2007: New release of KiCad
- 20.05.2007: New libs for KiCad
- 11.05.2007: New release of KiCad
- 06.05.2007: Subversion repository is created for KiCad
- 15.01.2007: New release of KiCad
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You can help in project evolution!
Necessary:
- To finish translation of russian documentation at WikiBooks (and not russian only).
- To finish translation of KiСad russian interface (with the help of KiCad Subversion).
- To develop library, schematic and pcb converters from another formats to KiСad format.
- And a lot of another things ...
With the help propositions you can adress at Yahoo developers group, russian forum or another way to the Igor Plyatov.
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Extra Tools
- Tool which allows quickly build library elements.
- KICAD lib manager: Linux tool to manage kicad libraries (join, extract, add commponent, etc) under command line mode.
- Pinarray paNxN: Command line Perl script to create automatically symbols and footprints for SIL, DIP, ICD headers, prototype areas and much more.
- Netconv - TinyCAD netlist to KiCAD pcbnew netlist converter
- TTConv, image2kicad, scalePCB and other python functions
- OrCad EDIF out to KiCad libs, schematic converter
- PCadToKiCad - schematic capture, board layout and library files conversion from P-CAD 200x ASCII to KiCad
- Tool to array layout associated with duplicated sub-sheets in a schematic hierarchy
- Online Search engine for Kicad libraries
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Useful Links
- Kicad Libraries on the net.
- KiCad notes
- Guide to IC Packages
- KiCad for OS X
