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Fritzing: Design Your PCBs With Ease

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ritzing is a CAD software that

lets users design as well as

simulate. It helps users to

build connections between the com-

ponents and the PCB. This is the

basic concept which differentiates

Fritzing from other design software.

Here is an overview of Fritzing fea-

tures and the latest updates.

Easy-to-use open source

software

Fritzing is an open source freeware

with prototyping tools to lay out

breadboards, create schematics and

finally get the PCB manufactured

from the design expert itself.

It eases the work of designers,

hobbyists and makers who are look-

ing forward to work on Arduino,

BeagleBone and Raspberry Pi.

Fig. 1 depicts how with the

help of Fritzing, a designer can

connect an Arduino board with

its supplementary circuit visible

on breadboard. Now, the designer

can visualise the placement of

components and connections

between components.

Simulation helps the designer

understand accuracy of the circuit

and make changes accordingly in

the breadboard itself. Thus, it helps

the designer to obtain an error-free

module, saving time and money.

You can see the screen of fritzing

and tools in the component library

in the right-hand corner.

Fritzing 0.9.3b: Latest version

Upgrades included in the new

version, Fritzing 0.9.3b, are

listed below.

Updated component library. The

Fritzing part library is now stored

online on GitHub and automati-

cally checked for updates. Thus any

upgrade in the software is automati-

cally available to users. This opens

Fig. 1: Illustration of Fritzing through Breadboard view (Image courtesy: http://fritzing.org)

Fig. 2: Fritzing workbench (Image courtesy: http://blog.frtzing.org)

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