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On Sep 4, 2015, at 9:08 AM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:

>  I still remember when I started with electronics many years ago. I did look at different packages, and there were three things that got me settled with geda and pcb:
> 
> - it was not integrated, but a set of specialized tools
> 
> - it let me do the glue between the tools (I wanted to use make)
> 
> - pcb file format looked like text editor friendly.

I started using gEDA as schematic capture for ngspice (in 2002, maybe). Then, I found that gnetlist back ends were simple scripts. I could thus use it to export netlists to PH70, an obscure layout program from Lincoln Labs used by a layout contractor popular in MIT-associated circles. I did several projects with that flow. From there I moved to ASIC design (for Osaka University), exporting SPICE for both simulation and layout. The PH70 contractor retired, and the MIT business transitioned to Osmond PCB for layout, done in-house at MIT. Some of that then switched to layout contractors using Allegro and PADS. This went amazingly smoothly from my perspective, although if I had been LISP-phobic it wouldn’t have worked.

gEDA is powerful and versatile!

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd AT noqsi DOT com