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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Best Design Tools

I was hoping to get some feedback from readers on what they use for schematic capture, code development, and any other handy tools that are out there that you find useful.

For schematics, I really like DesignSparkPCB for free software.  For a paid version, I would love to get a personal copy of Altium. If anyone is willing to donate, I would gladly accept.

For code development a good editor like VIM or gVim is my default.  I do like eMACs.  The integrated IDEs are nice but I don't usually need the features or the cost that they provide. 

I do hope more silicon vendors provide free tools as I do feel this is the best way to provide a barrier free entry to developing with their devices.

What do you think?

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