Lepton – GPL Electronic Design Automation
12 days ago
- #EDA
- #OpenSource
- #ElectronicsDesign
- Lepton EDA is a free software suite for electronics design, forked from gEDA/gaf in 2016.
- It includes tools for schematic capture, netlisting, PCB layout, and more, supporting over 30 netlist formats.
- Lepton EDA is backward compatible with gEDA/gaf, supporting the same file formats for symbols and schematics.
- Key components include liblepton, lepton-schematic, lepton-netlist, and lepton-sch2pcb, among others.
- Compilation requires tools like GCC, pkg-config, Guile, GTK+, and others, with optional dependencies for additional features.
- Installation involves extracting the source, running ./configure with possible options, and then make and make install.
- For the latest version, additional tools like git, automake, autoconf, and libtool are needed to clone and build from the repository.
- Support options include chat with developers, IRC channels, documentation, wiki pages, and mailing lists.
- Lepton EDA is licensed under the GNU GPL v2.0 or later, with contributions from numerous developers over the years.