I'm still a beginner at building circuits. I am getting to the point where I am starting to use several integrated circuits, and with more ICs comes more complex layouts when it comes to actually soldering things together on a prototype board.
I've been drawing layouts on paper and moving sockets around on prototype board until now, but I have a software background so it's natural for me to wonder if a computer could help me with this.
What I am imagining is a prototype board display that would allow me to add ICs of different pin sizes to it, select which pins connect to what, and then allow some configurable algorithm to try and fit everything nicely into that space with sensible paths for the requested connections.
Before I go off half-cocked and try and make something myself, does such a thing exist already?
I've been drawing layouts on paper and moving sockets around on prototype board until now, but I have a software background so it's natural for me to wonder if a computer could help me with this.
What I am imagining is a prototype board display that would allow me to add ICs of different pin sizes to it, select which pins connect to what, and then allow some configurable algorithm to try and fit everything nicely into that space with sensible paths for the requested connections.
Before I go off half-cocked and try and make something myself, does such a thing exist already?