Interesting no one mensioned Kicad, but rather advice heavily constrained if not
absolutely horrible freeware versions of commercial hefty priced CAD editors.
Kicad is open source GPL and Free, and it has been available (in some form) for
several years.
Texas Instruments provides XDS100 (low cost DSP 54/55/64x+ JTAG emulator) board
design reference to anyone who is interested download it from their site. It is
made by Kicad.
Kicad has schematic and pcb editor, a library editor and gerber viewer. Heck..
it has even 3D viewer. And there are Yahoo discussion groups kicad-devel and
kicad-users which both are very lively. That's a lot more than what is the case
with run off a mill CAD editor today.
I'm a happy customer so far with the free version. Obviously there's
more to learn about the software that might change my opinion, but I
just want to thank you all for your posts. I love that they support
linux as well, finally I can power down my windows VM
CEinTx, how long did it take you to do the schematic and layout, and
how many people were involved? Were you able to leverage the sources
for OrCAD & Allegro or did you use some other CAD tools? I'm also
curious what your experience was with manufacturing the board,
specifically since you used the POP.
