Top 15 PCB Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

PCB is an interactive printed circuit board editor for the X11 window system. PCB includes a rats nest feature, design rule checking, and can provide industry standard RS-274-X (Gerber), NC drill, and centroid data (X-Y data) output for use in the board fabrication and assembly process. PCB offers high end features such as an autorouter and trace optimizer which can tremendously reduce layout time.

1. PCBWeb

PCBWeb PCBWeb is a 100% free Windows desktop CAD application for designing and manufacturing electronics hardware. Features include schematic capture, PCB Layout with gerber output, and Bill of Materials manager.......

2. Sprint-Layout

Sprint-Layout With Sprint-Layout you can design your PCB’s quick and easy. There is no unnecessary “ballast” which makes it difficult to keep the overview or which makes the usage almost impossible. Because of the logical and understandable strucure of Sprint-Layout the usage is very easy to learn. So finally, you can......

3. Electronics Workbench

Electronics Workbench In 1999 the companies merged, and renamed itself after its most well known product, Electronics Workbench. The then current product line consisted of schematic capture and a simulation product named MultiSIM and the printed circuit board software called Ultiboard. Soon thereafter the combined product suite became worldwide leader in PC......

4. TINA

TINA TINA Design Suite is a powerful circuit simulation package for analyzing, designing, and real time testing of analog, digital, VHDL, MCU, SMPS, RF, communication, optoelectronic and mixed electronic circuits and their PCB layouts.......

5. OrCAD (All Products)

OrCAD (All Products) The Cadence OrCAD product line provides affordable, high-performance PCB design tools that boost productivity for smaller design teams and individual PCB designers.......

6. Freescale RF Engineering Tools

Freescale RF Engineering Tools Freescale RF Engineering Tools is a compilation of calculators and converters that can assist the typical RF designer, university student, professor and other members of the RF community in the execution of a variety of design and analysis activities.The calculator list includes a PCB microstrip impedance calculator and both cascaded......

7. Electrical Calculator Free

Electrical Calculator Free This app is created for Electrical Engineers and Engineering students who encounter various numerical problems in their day to day activity. This app helps to solve complex mathematical problems in an easy manner. It helps to save both time and effort while providing accurate results to various calculations.This app features......

8. CircuitLab

CircuitLab Sketch, simulate, and share your circuits, entirely in your browser -- no install required. Easy schematic capture and powerful SPICE-like, mixed-mode circuit simulation helps EE students, electronics hobbyists, and electrical engineers design faster.......

9. XCALC

XCALC XCALC is my little RPN calculator completely free to use, and still downloadable. XCALC is now a DEAD project. No work has been done on this project since 2012, and nothing more will be done either.......

10. GraphCalc

GraphCalc GraphCalc is an all-in-one solution to everything from everyday arithmetic to statistical analysis, from betas to Booleans, from cubes to calculus, from decimals to derivatives. GraphCalc combines all the features of a professional mathematics package with the simplicity of an easy to learn windows interface. It provides user-friendly help and......

11. BOOLR

BOOLR BOOLR is a digital logic simulator built with HTML and JavaScript using Electron / Atom Shell . Simulations run asynchronously and in ticks so complex simulations won't cause freezes.......

12. EDIFA Inventions

EDIFA Inventions EDIFA creates on-demand groundbreaking inventions, innovation and conducts business & patents research based on a revolutionary method that includes crowd-sourcing groundbreaking ideas, strict quality control process, experts evaluation and IP protection.EDIFA rewards business & patent researchers, innovators and inventors worldwide for their innovation & invention ideas and for conducting research.......

13. Mathomatic

Mathomatic Mathomatic is a free, portable, general-purpose Computer Algebra System (CAS) that can automatically solve, differentiate, simplify, combine, and compare algebraic equations, perform standard, complex number, modular, and polynomial arithmetic, etc. It does some calculus and is very easy to learn and use. Plotting expressions with gnuplot is also supported (requires......

14. Graphical Resistance Calculator

Graphical Resistance Calculator Calculate Resistor Values from Color Codes......

15. BMS

BMS BMSpy - Python Block-Model SimulatorBMS is a block model time simulator: it computes time values of time functions (called variables) linked by blocks which represent equations and behaviors between them. BMS is designed as a lightweight, easy to automatize, open source equivalent to Matlab's Simulink.......