CERN BE-CO-HT contribution to KiCad News
CERN BE-CO-HT contribution to KiCad
Support of free software in public institutions:
At the Octave conference in Geneva the presentation Support of free software in public institutions: the KiCad case will be given by Javier Serrano and Tomasz Wlostowski from CERN. KiCad is a tool to help electronics designers develop Printed Circuit Boards (PCB).
CERN BE-CO-HT contribution to KiCad
a commitment to freedom
In his message KiCad: A commitment to freedom, Javier Serrano thanks the KiCad supporters for their generous donations through the CERN & Society Foundation.
CERN BE-CO-HT contribution to KiCad
CERN devs demo SPICE integration in KiCad
Our colleagues Maciej Sumiński (Orson) and Tomasz Włostowski recently submitted a proposal in the KiCad dev mailing list to integrate SPICE simulation into KiCad, using ngspice as a shared library. The demo video can be seen here.
CERN BE-CO-HT contribution to KiCad
On the way to stable release
For sometime now, KiCad has stayed in the feature freeze state. It means that instead of adding new features, we chose to focus on resolving problems that surfaced during thorough tests, performed by the vast KiCad community.
CERN BE-CO-HT contribution to KiCad
06-11-2013: EETimes article
Javier D. Garcia-Lasheras, Open Science Activist wrote the EETimes article KiCad: CERN’s Contribution to Free/Open PCB Design: The hardware fraternity at CERN believes that KiCad can do to PCB design what the GCC compiler did to software, letting design and development knowledge flow more freely in the open hardware community.
CERN BE-CO-HT contribution to KiCad
10-06-2013: Arduino donated to KICAD development
Arduino and many other projects share a similar philosophy of creating free open source tools allowing more people to work with hardware and software. Arduino is based on the contribution of many other open source projects and supports several efforts in the form of donations.