EAGLE CAD Related

Eagle is a PCB layout package used by some people in the School. There is a free-ware version that allows boards up to 100x80mm, 2 sided. This is quite acceptable for many projects.

There are copies of the free-ware version here for Linux and Windows, along with a tut and some supplementary files.

NOTE
Many through-hole components , like resistors, capacitors and header pins, have very small pad sizes in the standard component libraries.
These pads are too small to be mechanically robust for single sided boards. They are also so small that they are hard to solder, even on plated holes. If you are making a single sided through-hole board and you use pad sizes that are considered too small, the board might be rejected and you will have to fix the pad sizes. This will mean editing the libraries (this is actually quite easy).

• eagle-4.09r2e.exe Eagle for Windows
• eagle-4.09r2e.tgz Eagle for Linux
• tutorial-eng.pdf - the EAGLE tutorial
• eagle.crib - a crib that explains how to export from EAGLE in a format usable by the School's PCB milling machine
• gerber_2.cam this is a job file that will produce 2 layer boards appropriate for CSE's pcb manufacturing techniques
• gerber_4.cam this is a job file that will produce 4 layer boards appropriate for CSE's pcb manufacturing techniques (the default that copmes with eagle is for 2-layer)
• ftdi.lbr - a library for the FTDI USB-Serial chip - used in a number of standard boards here
• avr2.lbr - a newer library for Atmel AVR parts