Last week, Autodesk announced their purchase of CadSoft Eagle, one of the most popular software packages for electronic design automation and PCB layout. Eagle is famous for the free version of its ...

Cadsoft Eagle is a multi-platform freeware circuit layout program. Lots of open source hardware is designed in Eagle, and it’s become a hobbyist favorite. We use it for all of our hardware designs.

The concept of PCB design software being either available freely or at low cost via a distribution website is only a recent development. Perhaps the first instance came in 2009, when Premier Farnell ...

Changes to schematic capture and PCB layout tool Eagle have been announced by former owner Farnell. German Eagle parent company CadSoft Computer, not to be confused with other firms called variations ...