I have been using eagle cad to draw wiring diagrams and have found it to be really useful for that purpose. I'm now interested in diving into pcb layout, but I seem to be having problems on a few points. As stated in the title, here are some questions:
1. The board I want to design first, I'd like to be about 2 inches (about 51mm) by 11 inches (about 280mm). This is far outside the space limitations for the freeware eagle cad software, I would need to buy the full professional version to be within these size limitations, and to be honest, I don't have $500.00 to spend. Is there an alternative that I can get that doesn't put such tight restraints on size?
2. Where can I find a decent library of surface mount parts? I'm particularly interested in a 24 pin surface mount PIC microcontroller.
3. Can someone please tell me what the heck SPICE stands for? lol, I realize that's probably a stupid question but I see it a lot.
That's all, thanks.
Ryan
1. The board I want to design first, I'd like to be about 2 inches (about 51mm) by 11 inches (about 280mm). This is far outside the space limitations for the freeware eagle cad software, I would need to buy the full professional version to be within these size limitations, and to be honest, I don't have $500.00 to spend. Is there an alternative that I can get that doesn't put such tight restraints on size?
2. Where can I find a decent library of surface mount parts? I'm particularly interested in a 24 pin surface mount PIC microcontroller.
3. Can someone please tell me what the heck SPICE stands for? lol, I realize that's probably a stupid question but I see it a lot.
That's all, thanks.
Ryan