KiCad EDA

What is KiCad EDA?

KiCad is a comprehensive open source software suite for electronic design automation (EDA), enabling users to design schematics of electronic circuits, generate bills of materials, and create printed circuit board (PCB) layouts. Developed by Jean-Pierre Charras, KiCad provides an integrated environment that seamlessly combines schematic capture, PCB layout, and 3D model generation, catering to the diverse needs of electronic circuit designers and engineers. The suite is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS, making it accessible to a wide range of users, and it is the most widely used EDA tool globally

Highlights

• Integrated environment for schematic capture, bill of materials generation, and PCB layout
• Supports Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems
• Widely adopted as the most used EDA tool worldwide
• Handles symbol and footprint library management
• Generates Gerber output files for PCB manufacturing