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Features
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External autorouters
Overview
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- Available in
- 39 languages
- Developer
- KiCad developers
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Operating system
- Linux, macOS, Windows
- Original author
- Jean-Pierre Charras
- Release
- 1992; 34 years ago (1992)
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Overview
- Free software
- Electronic design automation
- PCB manufacturing
- Schematic capture
- PCB Printed circuit board
- Ngspice
- SPICE simulation SPICE
- Bill of materials
- Gerber Gerber format
History
- IUT de Grenoble University technical institute (France)
- CAD Computer-aided design
- CERN
- Point release
- Linux Foundation
- Wayland Wayland (protocol)
- X11 X Window System
Features
- Cross-platform
- WxWidgets
- FreeBSD
- Linux
- Microsoft Windows
- Mac OS X
- EAGLE EAGLE (program)
- Altium Altium Designer
- Digi-Key
- UTF-8
- S-expression
- Version control systems Version control system
- Scripts Scripting language
- Bulgarian Bulgarian language
- Catalan Catalan language
- Chinese Chinese language
- Czech Czech language
- Dutch Dutch language
- English English language
- Finnish Finnish language
- French French language
- German German language
- Greek Greek language
- Hungarian Hungarian language
- Italian Italian language
- Japanese Japanese language
- Korean Korean language
- Lithuanian Lithuanian language
- Polish Polish language
- Portuguese Portuguese language
External autorouters
- Java Java (programming language)
- Toporouter
- Topological autorouter
- GEDA
- PCB PCB (software)
- DJ Delorie
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KiCad
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Important terminology
pcb tools design eda also schematic cern linux developers available help components electronic simulation gerber features languages circuit development provided
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KiCad | Available in | 39 languages | 1.00 | infobox |
| KiCad | Developer | KiCad developers | 1.00 | infobox |
| KiCad | License | GPL-3.0 | 1.00 | infobox |
| KiCad | Operating system | Linux, macOS, Windows | 1.00 | infobox |
| KiCad | Original author | Jean-Pierre Charras | 1.00 | infobox |
| KiCad | Release | 1992; 34 years ago (1992) | 1.00 | infobox |
| KiCad | Repository | gitlab.com/kicad | 1.00 | infobox |
| KiCad | Stable release | 10.0.5 / 22 July 2026; 33 days ago (22 July 2026) | 1.00 | infobox |
| KiCad | Type | EDA | 1.00 | infobox |
| KiCad | Website | www.kicad.org | 1.00 | infobox |
| KiCad | Written in | C++ | 1.00 | infobox |
| KiCad | is a | cross-platform program | 0.90 | text |
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