1@node Overview, Installation, Top, Top 2@chapter Overview 3@cindex overview 4 5Lepton EDA suite is a set of tools that provide schematic capture, 6netlisting and export of schematics into several formats, which, in 7turn, allows simulation via third party tools and producing PCBs. 8 9The project is over twenty years old, and has matured to the point 10where our design tools are suitable for use by students, 11professionals, educators, hobbyists, consultants, and anybody who 12needs a set of quality EDA tools. 13 14@menu 15* List of programs:: The list of programs in the suite. 16* Compatibility with geda-gaf:: 17* Related tools:: Tools related to Lepton EDA 18@end menu 19 20@node List of programs, Compatibility with geda-gaf, Overview, Overview 21@section The list of programs in the suite 22@cindex list of programs 23 24Lepton EDA suite includes tools as follows: 25 26@itemize 27@item 28lepton-schematic---the main GUI tool for schematic capture. 29@item 30lepton-attrib 31@item 32lepton-netlist---a tool for making netlists from command line 33@item 34lepton-cli---a CLI tool providing support of configuration, export, and shell. 35@item 36lepton-archive---project archivation utility 37@item 38lepton-tragesym---symbol generator 39@item 40lepton-embed 41@item 42lepton-pcb_backannotate 43@item 44lepton-refdes_renum 45@item 46lepton-renum 47@item 48lepton-sch2pcb 49@item 50lepton-schdiff 51@item 52lepton-symcheck 53@item 54lepton-symfix 55@item 56lepton-upcfg 57@item 58lepton-update 59@end itemize 60 61The following contributed tools are not covered in this manual. 62Mostly, those are for working with proprietary, often obsolete, 63programs, so they are of limited use for most users. Please see 64corresponding man pages for more information. 65 66@itemize 67@item 68convert_sym---convert a Viewlogic symbol/schematic to @ref{gEDA file 69format}. 70@item 71gmk_sym---create rectangular symbols in @ref{gEDA file format} from a 72text file. 73@item 74olib---OrCAD(tm) library part to gEDA .sym converter. 75@item 76sarlacc_schem---convert OrCAD SDT IV files to @ref{gEDA file format}. 77@item 78smash_megafile---break a Viewlogic megafile into a million little 79pieces. 80@item 81gnet_hier_verilog.sh---generate a non-flattened hierarchical Verilog 82netlist. 83@item 84pads_backannotate---process PADS PowerPCB .eco files to backannotate 85changes to schematics in @ref{gEDA file format}. 86@item 87sw2asc---converts a SWITCAP2 output file into ASCII data files that 88other tools can read. @xref{Switcap backend} for more information. 89@item 90sch2eaglepos.sh---read a schematic in @ref{gEDA file format} and 91attempt to extract the relative positions of the components in order 92to generate corresponding MOVE instructions for Eagle. 93@item 94sarlacc_sym---convert OrCAD text libraries to components in @ref{gEDA file 95format}. 96@end itemize 97 98@node Compatibility with geda-gaf, Related tools, List of programs, Overview 99@section Compatibility with geda-gaf 100@cindex compatibility with geda-gaf 101 102Lepton EDA is backward compatible with its predecessor @emph{geda-gaf} 103and supports the same @ref{gEDA file format} for symbols and 104schematics. We are planning to support it in future since there are 105lots of symbols and schematics created using it. We cannot promise 106you to support any change in @emph{geda-gaf} in future. It's up to 107you, our users, to point out what feature you would like to have in 108Lepton. 109 110 111@node Related tools, , Compatibility with geda-gaf, Overview 112@section Related tools 113@cindex Related tools 114 115@menu 116* Covered:: 117@end menu 118 119@node Covered, , Related tools, Related tools 120@subsection Covered 121@cindex Covered 122@cindex verilog code coverage 123 124@url{http://covered.sourceforge.net/index.html, 125Covered} is Verilog Code Coverage Analyzer by Trevor Williams. 126 127The project @url{http://covered.sourceforge.net/news.html, is inactive 128since 2011}. 129