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|Open Source Software and Hardware for the Arduino, Home of the Storage Shield<br />
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|A website dedicated to milling PCB's and the DIY machines to accomplish it.<br />
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[http://pminmo.com/ PMinMO.com]<br />
|A website dedicated to DIY CNC electronics.<br />
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[http://www.electro-tech-online.com/ Electro Tech]<br />
|A large community of electronics hobbyists.<br />
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[http://www.eeweb.com/electronics-forum/ Electronics Forum]<br />
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[http://www.free-electronic-circuits.com/ Free Electronic Circuits]<br />
|A collection of electronic circuits.<br />
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[http://www.gadgetgangster.com Gadget Gangster]<br />
|A site to publish and sell your electronics projects<br />
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|[http://meaning.com/wiki/Rubisync Rubisync]<br />
|Open Source Synchronized Magnetometers<br />
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|[http://www.mendingthings.com Mark's Electronics Blog]<br />
|Electronic project blog, Arduino,OOpic,Phidgets etc.<br />
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[http://vtluug.org Linux and Unix Users Group at Virginia Tech]<br />
|The Linux and Unix Users Group at Virginia Tech's membership is made up primarily of Computer and Electrical Engineering students, some of whom are contributers to this wiki. An ongoing project of theirs is to develop and document FOSS workflows that can eventually completely replace the current dependencies on PSpice, LogicWorks and MATLAB.<br />
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|[http://backyardsolar.blogspot.com/ Backyard Solar Power Blog]<br />
|Solar garden fountain project and development of other low cost solar energy solutions.<br />
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[http://bildr.org bildr]<br />
|A website that is rethinking the electronics DIY movement.<br />
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|[http://embeddedcoding.com Embedded Coding]<br />
|Embedded systems and consumer electronics development blog by [http://AaronClarke.com Aaron Clarke]<br />
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|[http://www.wzmicro.com Electronics DIY Projects]<br />
|DIY projects for stepper, DC motor and wireless remote control circuits by [http://www.wzmicro.com/projects.htm WZmicro]<br />
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|[http://www.arunet.co.uk/tkboyd/ele.htm Getting started]<br />
|Electronics basics, and notes on some common useful devices<br />
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|[http://www.workinprogress.ca Work in progress]<br />
|AVR & Kicad & V-USB Tutorials<br />
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|[http://sailboatelectronics.blogspot.com Learning Curve Labs]<br />
|Adventures of a marine electronics hack, outfitting a Westsail 42 sailboat,<br />
with DIY, homebrew, open source, commercial hardware and software for: automation, sensor<br />
networks, communications and marine navigation.<br />
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[http://shortcircu.it/ ShortCircu.it]<br />
|Microcontroller tutorials: PIC, Arduino, AVR. Also basic electronics.<br />
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|[http://sheepdogguides.com/arduino/artut.htm Arduino site from Sheepdog Guides]<br />
|Arduino: 1) Course for beginners; 2) Collection of "How To"s, tutorials, projects<br />
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[[File:logoPequenoNaranja.png|link=http://www.txapuzas.blogspot.com/]]<br />
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|basic microcontroller projects: Arduino, Paperduino. Homemade CNC... Also basic electronics. (Spanish)<br />
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|Friendly electronics discussion forums from beginner to advanced level. Get your questions answered here or help others with your knowledge.<br />
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|I do like video blogs, but this is an exception, try it out <br />
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|[http://www.amplifiersite.com/ Amplifier types] <br> <br />
|Dick's website about the most common amplifier types. Links to other sites are provided as well.<br />
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|[http://jeffrey.co.in/ Jeffrey's Website] <br> [http://jeffrey.co.in/blog Jeffrey's Blog ] <br> [http://jeffrey.co.in/wiki Jay Free Wiki for tutorials] <br />
|Jeffrey's website for Open Hardware and Free Software. Find a lot on electronics tutorials, open hardware, GNU/Linux...<br />
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[http://samthetechie.blogspot.com/ Tech Blog]<br />
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Occasional updates regarding the development of my final year electronic engineering project: Very Low Power Wireless Sensor Networks. <br />
The MCU for the project is an MSP430 (by TI) and the wireless module is made by Nordic. Also, I may post random findings from modding/hacking hardware and general circuit design.<br />
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[[russ_hensel]] I do not like blogs much, too much look at me, not enough content ( IMHO ) but this seems very good.<br />
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[http://blog.screamingcircuits.com/ Screaming Circuits]<br />
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|[http://www.ladyada.net/rant/ Ladyada’s Ranting]<br />
|Well worth checking out, build some of her stuff and go to prison?<br />
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|[http://blog.makezine.com/archive/open_source_hardware/ Blog Archive of Open Source Hardware]<br />
|From the folks at Make<br />
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|[http://www.nycresistor.com/ NYCResistor Blog] <br> [http://wiki.nycresistor.com/wiki/Main_Page NYCResistor Wiki]<br />
|NYCResistor is a hacker space based in NYC. <br />
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|[http://forum.diyaudiotr.com/ DIY Audio Türkiye Forum] <br> [http://www.diyaudiotr.com/ DIY Audio Türkiye]<br />
|Turkish DIY Audio community website has great forum and projects.<br />
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Personal blog of a Spanish Student give schematics and code of her projects.<br />
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|[http://diyAudioProjects.com/ DIY Audio Projects] <br> [http://www.diyAudioProjects.com/Forum/ DIY Audio Forum] <br> [http://www.diyAudioProjects.com/Gallery/ DIY Audio Photo Gallery] <br> [http://www.diyaudioprojects.blogspot.com/ DIY Audio Blog]<br />
|DIY Audio Projects community websites that feature several fully documented diy audio projects, audio schematics, a photo gallery of projects and a message forum.<br />
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|[http://amateur-radio-wiki.net/index.php?title=Main_Page Amateur Radio Wiki]<br />
|Online Encyclopedia for Hams<br />
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|[http://DSminded.com/community DSminded.com - Mod it. Play it. Love it.]<br />
|Games consoles modification site with forums, downloads, tutorials etc<br />
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|[http://www.irblaster.info/blog/2007/04/lirc-on-router.html LIRC on a Router]<br />
|Install LIRC on a DD WRT enabled router<br />
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|[http://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/ All About Circuits]<br />
|A quite active forum, plus an online book on electronics.<br />
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|[http://www.circuitpeople.com CircuitPeople Gerber Viewer]<br /><br />
[http://www.circuitpeople.com/Blog CircuitPeople Blog]<br />
|A free gerber viewer that generates high-quality PNG images<br />
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*Blog<br />
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|[http://www.electronicwiki.com electronic-wiki]<br /><br />
|A mix of Normal website and wiki engine that has all the information about chipdesign and semiconductor industry. <br />
I am open for any buisness and good idea you can contact me through this website/contact page.<br />
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|[http://littlebits.cc/ littleBits]<br />
|"littleBits, a growing library of preassembled circuitboards, made easy by tiny magnets"<br />
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*WebSite<br />
|[http://harkopen.com/ harkopen]<br />
|"dedicated open hardware hosting"<br />
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|[http://timewitharduino.blogspot.com/ timewitharduino]<br />
|Arduino projects: Wiseduino, Wise Clock, Wise4Sure etc.<br />
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[http://robozeal.blogspot.com Robotics INDIA: robozeal]<br />
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Basic electronic components.<br />
Detailed description of the software and hardware interface to the [http://techref.massmind.org/techref/lcds.htm Hitachi controller] in most 2-line LCD displays.<br />
Also: CELLPHONE OPERATED ROBOT.<br />
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[http://ph-elec.com Powerhouse Electronics]<br />
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Home of the Kemper LED Lamp. The Kemper LED Lamp is a small, PIC based node/lamp, that accepts RS232 commands. The commands <br />
are used control up to four LED output channels. Each channel can be command to fade to a certain PWM output level. Best of all,<br />
the lamps may be daisy chained together to form strings of lamps. <br />
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|[http://sites.google.com/site/plcandcircuitdiagram/home Plc and circuit diagrams]<br />
|Some basic circuit schematics and PLC ladder diagrams.<br />
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[http://www.plcs.net/chapters/links.htm links to all PLC manufacturers sites]<br />
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[http://limsimiteh.com/mart Limsimiteh Marketplace]<br />
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*Website<br />
|[http://cam.ly Cam.ly Open Source Security Cameras]<br />
|We sell fully hackable IP security cameras that run busybox. We provide resources to help you un-brick them using U-Boot and RS-232. Cameras are wireless, have USB ports, and SD slots.<br />
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|[http://voltsandbytes.com Volts and Bytes]<br />
|Tutorials, information and open source projects<br />
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|[http://www.robotroom.com/New-Robot-Articles.html Robot Room Articles]<br />
|Lots of info mostly about robots.<br />
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*Blog<br />
|[http://tantra-jnaan.blogspot.com]<br />
|Blog on AVR Projects, PSoC Controllers, Arduino, Aerodesign, Android, Gadgets and more !<br />
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"The Open Hardware Summit ... the world’s first comprehensive conference on open hardware... the rapidly growing open source hardware movement. ... Summit sought to empower companies, large and small, to produce electronic objects in an open source fashion."<br />
The forum discusses the Open Source Hardware (OSHW) draft definition.<br />
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|[http://blog.darshshah.org/ Darsh Shah's Blog]<br />
|Blog contains tutorials, codes and and explanation about various projects involving micro-controllers and FPGA.<br />
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|[http://ahmetalpat.com/ Elektrik Mühendisi Ahmet Alpat's Blog]<br />
|Electrical Engineer Ahmet Alpat's professional and life experiences. <br />
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|[http://www.theamphour.com/ The Amp Hour]<br />
|"An off-the-cuff radio show and podcast for electronics enthusiasts and professionals"<br />
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''FIXME: move wiki from this page to the [[WikiNode]].''</div>Sheepdoghttp://www.opencircuits.com/index.php?title=Got_A_Blog,_Wiki_or_Website%3F&diff=21995Got A Blog, Wiki or Website?2011-11-23T13:00:04Z<p>Sheepdog: Added link to resource</p>
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[[UCLA IEEE OPS]]<br />
| UCLA IEEE Open Project Space, in Los Angeles, California.<br />
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[[Tulsa electronics club]]<br />
| The Tulsa electronics club, in Tulsa, Oklahoma<br />
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*Circuits<br />
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[http://www.555-timer-circuits.com/ 555 Timer Circuits]<br />
| All the electronics info you need to know about the 555 Timer. With over 80 different electronic circuits that you can build.<br />
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*WebSite<br />
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[http://www.chipstobits.com/ Chips To Bits]<br />
|Open Source Software and Hardware for the Arduino, Home of the Storage Shield<br />
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*WebSite<br />
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[http://millpcbs.com/ Millpcbs.com]<br />
|A website dedicated to milling PCB's and the DIY machines to accomplish it.<br />
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[http://pminmo.com/ PMinMO.com]<br />
|A website dedicated to DIY CNC electronics.<br />
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[http://www.paleotechnologist.net Paleotechnologist.Net]<br />
|A blog exploring ways to blend old-school and new-school technology.<br />
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[http://www.electro-tech-online.com/ Electro Tech]<br />
|A large community of electronics hobbyists.<br />
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[http://www.eeweb.com/electronics-forum/ Electronics Forum]<br />
|Forum for Electronic Enthusiasts.<br />
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|Free Jobs Board for Electrical Engineers.<br />
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[http://www.free-electronic-circuits.com/ Free Electronic Circuits]<br />
|A collection of electronic circuits.<br />
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[http://www.gadgetgangster.com Gadget Gangster]<br />
|A site to publish and sell your electronics projects<br />
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*WebSite<br />
|[http://meaning.com/wiki/Rubisync Rubisync]<br />
|Open Source Synchronized Magnetometers<br />
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|[http://www.mendingthings.com Mark's Electronics Blog]<br />
|Electronic project blog, Arduino,OOpic,Phidgets etc.<br />
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[http://vtluug.org Linux and Unix Users Group at Virginia Tech]<br />
|The Linux and Unix Users Group at Virginia Tech's membership is made up primarily of Computer and Electrical Engineering students, some of whom are contributers to this wiki. An ongoing project of theirs is to develop and document FOSS workflows that can eventually completely replace the current dependencies on PSpice, LogicWorks and MATLAB.<br />
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|A website that is rethinking the electronics DIY movement.<br />
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|[http://embeddedcoding.com Embedded Coding]<br />
|Embedded systems and consumer electronics development blog by [http://AaronClarke.com Aaron Clarke]<br />
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|[http://www.wzmicro.com Electronics DIY Projects]<br />
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|[http://sailboatelectronics.blogspot.com Learning Curve Labs]<br />
|Adventures of a marine electronics hack, outfitting a Westsail 42 sailboat,<br />
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|Arduino: 1) Course for beginners; 2) Collection of "How To"s, tutorials, projects<br />
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[[File:logoPequenoNaranja.png|link=http://www.txapuzas.blogspot.com/]]<br />
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|basic microcontroller projects: Arduino, Paperduino. Homemade CNC... Also basic electronics. (Spanish)<br />
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|Jeffrey's website for Open Hardware and Free Software. Find a lot on electronics tutorials, open hardware, GNU/Linux...<br />
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Occasional updates regarding the development of my final year electronic engineering project: Very Low Power Wireless Sensor Networks. <br />
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|[http://www.ladyada.net/rant/ Ladyada’s Ranting]<br />
|Well worth checking out, build some of her stuff and go to prison?<br />
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|[http://blog.makezine.com/archive/open_source_hardware/ Blog Archive of Open Source Hardware]<br />
|From the folks at Make<br />
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|[http://www.nycresistor.com/ NYCResistor Blog] <br> [http://wiki.nycresistor.com/wiki/Main_Page NYCResistor Wiki]<br />
|NYCResistor is a hacker space based in NYC. <br />
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|[http://diyAudioProjects.com/ DIY Audio Projects] <br> [http://www.diyAudioProjects.com/Forum/ DIY Audio Forum] <br> [http://www.diyAudioProjects.com/Gallery/ DIY Audio Photo Gallery] <br> [http://www.diyaudioprojects.blogspot.com/ DIY Audio Blog]<br />
|DIY Audio Projects community websites that feature several fully documented diy audio projects, audio schematics, a photo gallery of projects and a message forum.<br />
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|[http://amateur-radio-wiki.net/index.php?title=Main_Page Amateur Radio Wiki]<br />
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|[http://DSminded.com/community DSminded.com - Mod it. Play it. Love it.]<br />
|Games consoles modification site with forums, downloads, tutorials etc<br />
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|[http://www.irblaster.info/blog/2007/04/lirc-on-router.html LIRC on a Router]<br />
|Install LIRC on a DD WRT enabled router<br />
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|[http://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/ All About Circuits]<br />
|A quite active forum, plus an online book on electronics.<br />
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|[http://www.circuitpeople.com CircuitPeople Gerber Viewer]<br /><br />
[http://www.circuitpeople.com/Blog CircuitPeople Blog]<br />
|A free gerber viewer that generates high-quality PNG images<br />
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*Blog<br />
*WebSite<br />
|[http://www.electronicwiki.com electronic-wiki]<br /><br />
|A mix of Normal website and wiki engine that has all the information about chipdesign and semiconductor industry. <br />
I am open for any buisness and good idea you can contact me through this website/contact page.<br />
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|[http://littlebits.cc/ littleBits]<br />
|"littleBits, a growing library of preassembled circuitboards, made easy by tiny magnets"<br />
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*WebSite<br />
|[http://harkopen.com/ harkopen]<br />
|"dedicated open hardware hosting"<br />
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*Blog<br />
|[http://timewitharduino.blogspot.com/ timewitharduino]<br />
|Arduino projects: Wiseduino, Wise Clock, Wise4Sure etc.<br />
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[http://robozeal.blogspot.com Robotics INDIA: robozeal]<br />
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Basic electronic components.<br />
Detailed description of the software and hardware interface to the [http://techref.massmind.org/techref/lcds.htm Hitachi controller] in most 2-line LCD displays.<br />
Also: CELLPHONE OPERATED ROBOT.<br />
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[http://ph-elec.com Powerhouse Electronics]<br />
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Home of the Kemper LED Lamp. The Kemper LED Lamp is a small, PIC based node/lamp, that accepts RS232 commands. The commands <br />
are used control up to four LED output channels. Each channel can be command to fade to a certain PWM output level. Best of all,<br />
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|[http://sites.google.com/site/plcandcircuitdiagram/home Plc and circuit diagrams]<br />
|Some basic circuit schematics and PLC ladder diagrams.<br />
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At Limsimiteh Marketplace, our main objective is to provide electronics components of the highest quality at the lowest cost! <br />
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*Website<br />
|[http://cam.ly Cam.ly Open Source Security Cameras]<br />
|We sell fully hackable IP security cameras that run busybox. We provide resources to help you un-brick them using U-Boot and RS-232. Cameras are wireless, have USB ports, and SD slots.<br />
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|[http://www.robotroom.com/New-Robot-Articles.html Robot Room Articles]<br />
|Lots of info mostly about robots.<br />
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|Blog on AVR Projects, PSoC Controllers, Arduino, Aerodesign, Android, Gadgets and more !<br />
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"The Open Hardware Summit ... the world’s first comprehensive conference on open hardware... the rapidly growing open source hardware movement. ... Summit sought to empower companies, large and small, to produce electronic objects in an open source fashion."<br />
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''FIXME: move wiki from this page to the [[WikiNode]].''</div>Sheepdoghttp://www.opencircuits.com/index.php?title=Software_tool&diff=21993Software tool2011-11-23T11:10:07Z<p>Sheepdog: Added link to another resource</p>
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<div>One of several [[techniques]] for building [[Printed Circuit Boards]] and other kinds of electronics involves software design tools.<br />
<br />
== Software design tools ==<br />
<br />
Some people still build circuits without ever using any software tools.<br />
For complicated circuits, software design tools can save a lot of time.<br />
<br />
'''This section is being reorgnized and expanded, it may be a bit messed up for a few days.'''<br />
<br />
The design tools fall into several classes:<br />
=== Schematic Capture ===<br />
Listed in Class as SchCap<br />
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=== PCB Layout ===<br />
Listed in Class as '''PCB''', generally includes a footprint editor to make new parts.<br />
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=== Circuit Simulation ===<br />
Listed in Class as '''CirSim'''.<br />
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=== Other ===<br />
Other tools that do not fall in the classes above<br />
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=== Suites ===<br />
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"Suites" that combine schematic capture, component editor for the components used in schematic capture, circuit simulation, PCB layout, autorouter, and footprint editor for the footprints used in PCB layout. A suite can be nice as you need draw the circuit only once.<br />
<br />
Quite often people mix-and-match tools -- using a schematic capture from one suite to generate pretty schematics and a netlist, then importing the netlist a third party Specctra autorouter, then importing the result into a PCB layout program from another suite for the final manual clean-up and design rule checking. For this to work the tools must have compatible import and export tools.<br />
<br />
(Is there another place for listing stand-alone tools such as a [[switching regulator|switching power supply]] "wizard" and a RF analysis tool? -- yes as this section is not limited to suites [anymore] )<br />
<br />
=== Links ===<br />
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In no particular order:<br />
<!-- Please use a valid license ie, BSD, GPL, Crippleware, Nagware, Shareware, Payware etc.. And specify platform. There's usually a lot of free win32 crippleware without sources makeing you victim of the design file hostage scenario. Also some packages are sub-packages to others, thus maybe no needing an entry of their own. --><br />
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|| [http://www.liquidpcb.org/ Liquid PCB] <br />
|| Linux, Win32 <br />
|| GPL || no || [http://liquidpcb.wiki.sourceforge.net/ Liquid PCB wiki at SourceForge] Liquid PCB is a computer aided design application for designing printed circuit boards. You are not restricted to straight tracks and 45º angles, you can draw tracks any way you like. The tracks will move and bend as required to maintain your design rules. It is open source, and still in the Alpha stage.<br />
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|*PCB ||[http://geda.seul.org/ [[gEDA]]] || Linux, *BSD || Free, OSS || autorouter <br />
||This may be the goto open source tool for schematic capture through PCB. Generally does not run on Windows. There are no restrictions on the package to cripple it for a paid version. Boards may be very big. Would be nice to have a full review sometime. [http://geda.seul.org/wiki/ gEDA wiki] includes schematic and [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcb/ PCB] for makeing [[gerber|gerbers]] etc...<br />
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|*PCB ||[http://mccad.com/ McCAD EDS Lite] || MacOSX, Win32 || Free demo max 200 pin || autorouter || Free demo version available for download, 200 pin limit<br />
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|*PCB ||[http://applefritter.com/replica McCAD EDS SE] || MacOSX, Win32 || "free"? || autorouter || Free with book, "Apple I Replica Creation". Supports 750 pins, 11"x17" sheet size, 6-8 data layers. <tangent>(any useful tips in this book for those who want to build a CPU from scratch?) <reply>No, there are not. The book is more entry-level. - Tom Owad</reply></tangent> <br />
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|*PCB ||[http://www.freepcb.com/ FreePCB] || Win32 || GPL || can use [http://www.freerouting.net/ FreeRoute] || PCB Design Software<br />
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|*SchCap ||[http://tinycad.sourceforge.net/ TinyCAD] || Win32 || LGPL || n/a<br />
| Schematic Drawing Software. [http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tinycad/ TinyCAD wiki].<br />
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|*SchCap, PCB<br />
|[http://kicad.sourceforge.net/ KiCad] || BSD, Linux, MacOSX, Win32 || GPL || autorouter || Free and open-source. http://www.lis.inpg.fr/realise_au_lis/kicad/ EDA suite ; [http://kicad.sourceforge.net/wiki/ KiCad wiki]. [http://kicadhowto.org/ KiCadHowTo.org] (Help and tutorials)<br />
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|*SchCap *PCB <br />
|[http://expresspcb.com/ Express SCH/PCB] || Win32 || Free use crippleware || ? || ExpressPCB's propietatary free schematic capture & PCB layout designer locking you to use ExpressPCB for manufacture explicitly. Manufacture in 3 business days of two boards for ~100 USD.<br />
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||[http://altium.com/ Protel DXP] || Win32 || || autorouter<br />
| [http://techref.massmind.org/techref/app/protel.htm independent Protel users FAQ]; [http://protel-users.org/ Protel users wiki]<br />
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|[http://cadsoftusa.com/ Eagle] [[Eagle Links]] || Win32, Linux || Free use crippleware || || ( Russ Hensel says>> ) I have been kicking around as a hobbyist for a while and Eagle seems to be the main hobbyist circuit/pcb cad program. It supports schematics and board layout with an auto-router. The free version can easily support 2 dual op amps with wide traces and a one sided board. There is quite a lot of info on the Internet and many projects supply eagle files. There is also a $125 non profit version supporting larger boards. It then gets expensive. Eagle is not really easy to learn: cut for it would be copy in almost any other program. It probably deserves a page or more of its own. ( << end RH ) <br>http://cadsoft.de/ <br>[http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/PCB/eagle-output-tutorial.htm Eagle tutorial from Sparkfun] <br>[http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/03/how_to_make_a_custom_library_p.html Eagle tutorial (makezine)]<br />
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|[http://diptrace.com/ DipTrace] || || Crippleware || || 250-pin Freeware or Purchase more advanced versions<br />
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|*tbd <br />
|[http://winqcad.com/ WinQcad] || || Crippleware || || Demo with max 499 pins available for download<br />
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|*tbd <br />
|[http://www.hutson.co.nz/ Rimu Schematic and Rimu PCB] || Win32 || Payware || || Schematic & PCB design for MS-Windows<br />
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|-valign="top"<br />
|*tbd <br />
|[http://mentala.com/ SuperCAD and SuperPCB] || Win32 || || || Mental Automation schematic & PCB for MS-Windows<br />
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|-valign="top"<br />
|*tbd <br />
|[http://www.autotraxeda.com/ autotraxeda.com] || || || || AUTOTraxEDA needs MS-NT, won't work on MS-W98/ME. User forums have shown a certain lack of satisfaction with the program.<br />
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|-valign="top"<br />
|*tbd <br />
|[http://www.holophase.com/dleval.htm holophase.com/dleval] || Win32 || Crippleware || || Circad's DOS version is free for non-commercial use.<br />
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|-valign="top"<br />
|*tbd <br />
|[http://www.geda.seul.org/ geda.seul.org] || BSD, Linux, MacOSX || GPL || autorouter || xNIX Electronic Design Automation project has Schematic capture with PCB CAD.<br />
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|*tbd <br />
|[http://www.vutrax.co.uk/pricing.htm vutrax.co.uk/pricing] || Win32 || || autorouter || Vutrax for MS-Windows. Free for under 256 component pins.<br />
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|*tbd <br />
|[http://www.interactiv.com interactiv.com] || || || || Electronic Workbench, 400 USD for 500 pins. Includes schematic capture and simulation, virtual instruments and PCB layout. Said to be stable.<br />
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|-valign="top"<br />
|*tbd <br />
|[http://pcb.sourceforge.net Harry Eaton's PCB] || BSD?, Linux?, MacOSX?, Win32 || GPL || autorouter || PCB design program which can work under any POSIX compliant operating system like Linux (or BSD under API compability layer). Have Gerber and PostScript output options.<br />
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|-valign="top"<br />
|*tbd <br />
|[http://www.labcenter.co.uk/ labcenter.co.uk] || || || || They have a lite version "PIC bundle" ~149 USD includes schematic + simulation + pcb layout. You can write pic code for your pic schematic design and simulate. Even multi-pic, keypad, lcd display. Right now it can only simulate PIC16x83, PIC16x84 (lite version limited to 1k program code). Working on more pic modules. Will not produce Gerber or Excellion drill files. Only dxf, bmp, hpgl, tiff output (not sufficient!).<br />
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|-valign="top"<br />
|*tbd <br />
|[http://www.ivex.com/ ivex.com] || || Payware || || Winboard PCB Layout, now [http://www.calcentron.com/Pages/NTEHomePage/ivex_cad_software.htm calcentron.com].<br />
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|*tbd <br />
|[http://www.illuminated.com.au/ illuminated.com.au] || Linux, Win32, DOS<!-- Claimed --> || || || Draftcad, Schematic Capture and PCB Design<br />
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|[http://www.winqcad.com/ winqcad.com] || Win32, Linux+Wine || || || MicroCad<br />
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| [http://www.4pcb.com/index.php?load=content&page_id=46 "PCB ARTIST"] || Win32 || ? || || schematic + layout. Seems to lock you into using Advanced Circuits for manufacture (?).<br />
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| [http://www.sunstone.com/PCB123.aspx PCB123] || Win32 || ? || || schematic + layout. Seems to lock you into using Sunstone for manufacture (?).<br />
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| [http://www.best-microcontroller-projects.com/schematic-drawing-program.html ProSchematic] || Win32 || "free trial" || no || can make schematics that look almost like photographs of a solderless breadboard.<br />
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|*CirSim<br />
|Spice<br />
|Various<br />
|Various<br />
|na<br />
|The generic term for many simulation programs.<br />
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|*CirSim<br />
|[http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/ LTSpice]<br />
|Windows<br />
|free<br />
|na<br />
|A free version of Spice from Linear Technology. Draw the schematic and see its simulations. Many components. Seems to be very popular. Should ( will ) have a page here of its own.<br />
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|* PCB<br />
|[http://opencircuitdesign.com/pcb PCB 3.0]<br />
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|* PCB<br />
|[http://veecad.com/ VeeCAD]<br />
|<br />
|<br />
| autorouter<br />
| VeeCAD Stripboard Editor<br />
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|* CirSim<br />
|[http://qucs.sourceforge.net/ Qucs]<br />
|<br />
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|* CirSim<br />
| Java Breadboard Simulator[http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/jbb][http://www.stephen-halstead.co.uk/breadboard_simulator/index.php]<br />
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|* SchCap, PCB<br />
| [http://fritzing.org/learning/get-started/project-view/ Fritzing]<br />
|<br />
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| autorouter<br />
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|* CirSim<br />
| [http://garlicsim.org/ GarlicSim]<br />
| Windows, Linux<br />
| mostly LGPL2.1<br />
|<br />
| If you want to write a circuit simulator or a microcontroller simulator, GarlicSim may be a nice starting point.<br />
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|* SchCap, PCB<br />
| [http://www.designspark.com/pcb DesignSpark PCB]<br />
| Windows, WINE[http://www.designspark.com/content/designspark-pcb-which-operating-systems-are-supported]<br />
| freeware<br />
| autorouter[http://www.designspark.com/knowledge/autorouting-design-spark-pcb]<br />
| seems to require some kind of on-line activation?<br />
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(Some of this information in this table came from the [http://techref.massmind.org/techref/pcbcads.htm list of software design tools at the Massmind]).<br />
<br />
A [http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=schematic SourceForge search for "schematic"] lists dozens of tools.<br />
Other than the ones already listed above, what tools in that list are useful for open circuits?<br />
<br />
Is there any way to objectively compare these tools?<br />
How well did they do at the<br />
[http://www.pcbwest.com/topgun/ PCB Top Gun contest] ?<br />
<br />
Timing diagrams:<br />
* GTKWave Electronic Waveform Viewer http://intranet.cs.man.ac.uk/apt/projects/tools/gtkwave/<br />
* TimingTool http://www.timingtool.com/<br />
<br />
When you want to post a picture of a schematic or timing diagram on a web site, should you use JPEG or PNG?<br />
I hope these 2 pictures answer your question:<br />
<br />
* http://www.ninechime.com/gallery/sketch/StopJPEGing.jpg<br />
* http://www.ninechime.com/gallery/sketch/StopJPEGing.png<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Circuit simulation tools ==<br />
<br />
''Should this be integrated into the above list?''<br />
''Or should this be split out into a separate page?''<br />
<br />
Which kind of circuit simulation tool is most appropriate for experimenting with various [[relay CPU]] configurations?<br />
<br />
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_simulation<br />
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_software<br />
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_circuit_simulation<br />
<br />
In no particular order:<br />
<br />
=== analog electronic simulators ===<br />
<br />
Quite Universal Circuit Simulator<br />
http://qucs.sourceforge.net/<br />
has a wiki<br />
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/qucs/<br />
<br />
Quite Universal Circuit Simulator (Qucs) is a open source electronics circuit simulator software released under GPL.<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quite_Universal_Circuit_Simulator<br />
<br />
"Oregano is a schematic capture and circuit simulation program using the GNOME libraries. Coupled with ngspice, it can do DC sweeps, AC Sweeps, Time domain analysis, and Fourier analysis. All kinds of good stuff, and GPL licensed to boot."<br />
http://www.electronicschat.org/index.cgi/Oregano<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregano_%28software%29<br />
<br />
<br />
LTSpice/SwitcherCad<br />
<br />
http://sim4kicad.sf.net simulator<br />
<br />
http://edacious.org/ simulator http://sf.net/projects/edacious/<br />
<br />
"Can you simulate a schematic?"<br />
http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/4866/can-you-simulate-a-schematic<br />
<br />
Circuit simulation software<br />
http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/7022/circuit-simulation-software<br />
<br />
What are the freeware SPICE simulators available?<br />
http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/1206/what-are-the-freeware-spice-simulators-available<br />
<br />
Program for simulating circuits on linux<br />
http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/12400/program-for-simulating-circuits-on-linux<br />
<br />
<br />
NSPICE, a Forth Package to Simulate Electronic Circuits<br />
http://home.claranet.nl/users/mhx/nspice.html<br />
<br />
Electrical Circuit Simulator<br />
http://mark.madscientist.ws/<br />
http://markworld.com/<br />
circuit editor written in JavaScript to run in a web browser;<br />
passes to circuit simulator on the server written in C.<br />
<br />
<br />
Gnucap is the Gnu Circuit Analysis Package.<br />
The primary component is a general purpose circuit simulator.<br />
It performs nonlinear dc and transient analyses, fourier analysis, and ac analysis.<br />
Gnucap is not based on Spice, but some of the models have been derived from the Berkeley models.<br />
http://freeelectron.net/gnucap/<br />
http://directory.fsf.org/project/gnucap/<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
"Web lectures on electronic circuits"<br />
"The circuits are emulated using Javascript functions, which make it feel like you are interacting with the circuitry itself."<br />
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/02/web_lectures_on_electronic_cir.htm<br />
l<br />
http://spsu.edu/cs/faculty/bbrown/web_lectures/<br />
<br />
Hans Summers.<br />
"Huff & Puff Oscillator Stabiliser Frequency Simulator" (source code in Java can be downloaded here)<br />
http://www.hanssummers.com/huffpuff.html<br />
<br />
<br />
=== digital electronic simulators ===<br />
<br />
tkgate open-source gate-level schematic entry and simulator<br />
http://www.tkgate.org/<br />
<br />
LogicLab<br />
http://www.idcomm.com/personal/lorenblaney/<br />
<br />
The Iowa Logic Simulator: a tool for modelling digital systems.<br />
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/logicsim/<br />
<br />
<br />
the Tofu relay circuit simulator.<br />
http://meatfighter.com/tofu/<br />
http://meatfighter.com/tofu/tutorial/index.html<br />
<br />
<br />
=== microcontroller simulators ===<br />
<br />
[PIC simulators]<br />
"Hades includes simulation models for ... the 8-bit PIC16 microcontrollers ..."<br />
http://tams-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/applets/hades/webdemos/index.html<br />
<br />
[PIC simulators]<br />
miSim DE 2.1 is now FREE<br />
miSim DE 2.1 development environment ... It includes an editor, assembler and disassembler ... a simulator that simulates not only the microcontroller itself, but also devices connected to it in real time - from simple switches and LEDs to video displays and stepper motors.<br />
...<br />
Also runs as web Applet<br />
http://www.feertech.com/misim/welcome.html<br />
<br />
[68HC11 simulators]<br />
"THRSim11, ... allows you to edit, assemble, simulate and debug programs for the 68HC11 on Windows 95/98. THRSim11 simulates the CPU, ROM, RAM, all memory mapped I/O ports, and the on board peripherals."<br />
http://www.bdti.com/faq/3.htm<br />
<br />
== visual diff tools ==<br />
<br />
"Improving open source hardware: Visual diffs"<br />
[http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/visdiff]<br />
via<br />
"Hardware version control using visual DIFF"<br />
[http://hackaday.com/2011/10/14/hardware-version-control-using-visual-diff/]<br />
<br />
"Visual Diff Tools Revisited"<br />
[http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/12/visual-diff-tools-revisited.html]<br />
<br />
"The Power of Visual Diff for Schematics & Layouts"<br />
[http://www.cliosoft.com/products/whitepaper-vdd.pdf]<br />
<br />
(Didn't [[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] write up a description of<br />
"blink" alt-tab comparing files somewhere?)<br />
<br />
== Further reading ==<br />
<br />
* [[Techniques]]<br />
* [[hardware tool]]s<br />
* Even though PCB part of a stripboard circuit was more or less "finished" years ago, some people use the above schematic and PCB layout tools to design and document the parts placement for new gadgets built on [[stripboard]].<br />
* A similar list of software tools at [http://reprap.org/wiki/Useful_Software_Packages#CAD_software_for_electronics RepRap: CAD software for electronics] lists tools that people working on the RepRap project have found useful. ''(Have we already listed all those tools here?)''<br />
* Yet another list of electronics software tools at Electronics and Robotics: [http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/4866/can-you-simulate-a-schematic circuit simulation] and [http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/1222/what-are-low-cost-circuit-and-pcb-design-software PCB design]. ''(Have we already listed all those tools here?)''<br />
* [http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/1024/good-tools-for-drawing-schematics/3035#comment-32446 "Good Tools for Drawing Schematics"]</div>Sheepdog