Xschem is a schematic editor for VLSI/Asic/Analog custom designs, netlist backends for VHDL, Spice and Verilog.
The tool is focused on hierarchy and parametric designs, to maximize circuit reuse. Xschem’s initial design goal was to handle Integrated Circuit (IC) design and generate netlists for Very Large Scale digital, analog or mixed mode simulations.
While the user interface looks very simple, the netlisting and rendering engine in XSCHEM are designed from the ground-up to handle in the most efficient way very large designs. Also the user interaction has no bells and whistles but is the result of doing actual work on big projects in the most efficient way
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports four netlist formats:
- SPICE netlist
- VHDL netlist
- VERILOG netlist
- tEDAx netlist for Printed board editing software like pcb-rnd.
Website: codeberg.org/stef_xschem/xschem
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Developer: Stefan Frederik Schippers
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Xschem is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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