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		Cyph0n 68 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cadence Guilty, Pays $140M for Exporting Semi Desi... Isn’t KiCAD limited to PCB design, or is my understanding out of date? Cadence tooling is for end-to-end electronics design - from transistor/standard cell up to PCB. So technically they’re both EDA tools, but one is in another league as far as sophistication goes.

AlotOfReading 68 days ago [–]

People have hacked kicad into doing layout with the e.g. skywater 130 PDK. I wouldn't recommend it, but it's possible.

There's a whole lot more to an EDA tool than just layout or running spice though.

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