Schematic capture

Schematic capture or schematic entry is a step in the design cycle of electronic design automation at which the electronic diagram, or schematic of the designed electronic circuit is created by a designer. This is done interactively with the help of a schematic capture tool also known as schematic editor.

In a way, schematic entry is the very first step of actual design of an electronic circuit. Therefore schematic entry is said to be a front-end operation in the design flow.

See:

• PCB layout guidelines
• Wikibooks: Design Software

External links:

• gEDA is working on producing a full GPL'd suite of Electronic Design Automation tools.

See also: Schematic capture, Electronic circuit, Electronic design automation, Front-end, Interactive, PCB layout guidelines, Schematic, Schematic editor, Technology