This project aims to produce an open-source electronic design automation (EDA) toolkit, including a schematic editor, a mixed-mode circuit simulator, accurate physical and semi-empirical models for several devices and a PCB editor with autorouting capability. The code is designed in such a way that it can be used as a component in simulating complete systems. We use the Agar GUI toolkit. Since we have not yet decided on an official name, we call it "Agar-EDA" for now.

Agar-EDA complements the existing open-source simulators (such as SPICE, Qucs). Unlike many circuit simulator packages, Agar-EDA is not based on SPICE, it has it has its own circuit simulator, designed from the ground up to accomodate transient circuit analysis methods (the most important one being Modified Nodal Analysis used iteratively), in an optimally fast and numerically robust way.

Agar-EDA is written in ANSI C, and is portable to the many platforms supported by Agar. The Agar-EDA source code is freely usable and re-usable by everyone under a revised BSD license.

Because Agar-EDA is free software, you are encouraged to make it more useful. Send the maintainer (vedge at hypertriton.com) your patches, suggestions, requests and affronts without inhibitions.