Free PCB Schematic Entry & Layout Software Beat Eagle for Some Features. By DakLak in Technology Tools. Stats Download Favorite. By DakLak Follow. More by the author. Verilog analog and digital simulation, transmission line analysis, and printed circuit board (PCB) design layout. Gerber outputs are supported.
Contents • • • • • History [ ] PCB was first written by Thomas Nau for an in 1990 and ported to and in 1994. Initially PCB was not intended to be a professional layout system but as a tool for individuals to do small-scale development of hardware. The second release 1.2 introduced user menus. This made PCB easier to use and increased its popularity. Harry Eaton took over PCB development beginning with Release 1.5, although he contributed some code from Release 1.4.3. PCB includes a named, developed by Anthony Blake in a -funded project mentored by in 2008. It is mostly based on an implementation of the algorithms described in Tal Dayan's 1997 PhD thesis, 'Rubberband based topological router'.
This router has meanwhile been adapted for use with the open-source project as well.