These are the official project docs. They have been converted from LaTeX and HTML documents into Wiki pages so that the gEDA community may more easily maintain them.

• gschem to pcb tutorial, by Bill Wilson (release notes).
• gschem warmup, by Bill Willson.
• gschem Symbol and PCB Element Transistor Guide, by Bill Willson.
• PCB tutorial, by DJ Delorie.
• ngspice and gschem
• tragesym tutorial on how to create symbols with the tragesym script.
• Scripting a gnetlist backend in scheme by John Doty.
• Using hierarchy in schematics
• Getting started with Xorn

Various talks and presentations on gEDA provide a good top-level overview of the project for those who are interested:

gEDA session DJ Delorie did at Renesas DevCon 2010 (the slides for it are here under “Presentations and Other Info”)

Ignite 5 video given by Stuart Brorson about “Hardware design and the gEDA Project”

These are informal FAQs, HOWTOs, and tips/tricks to help you with the practical details of using the gEDA Suite. If you are having a problem, browse these pages first.

• Glossary : Glossary of terms that are specific to the gEDA Suite.
• Usage : Questions about how to do electronic design using the gEDA toolset – information which applies to several or all tools in the gEDA Suite.
• FAQ-gschem : Questions about installing, configuring, and using gschem. Also, questions about creating and using gschem symbols.
• FAQ-attribs : Attribute management.
• FAQ-gnetlist : Questions about installing, configuring, and using gnetlist. It deals with BOMs, DRCs, and all that.
• FAQ-simulation : Questions about simulating your design using gEDA tools.
• FAQ-gsch2pcb : How to take your design to layout using PCB.
• PCB-quick reference : PCB Quick Reference Sheet.
• PCB footprints : How to create, use and share footprints.
• PCB tips : Tips and tricks for using PCB.
• Guile scripting : Guile functions & variables provided by the gEDA tools.
• Symbol guide : Symbols and attributes explained

• gaf
• gaf utility
• HSE Howto
• PCB Footprint Naming Conventions
• Spice polys

• gschem User's Guide
• Symbol Creation Guide
• Symbol generators for gschem

• gnetlist User's Guide
• gnetlist Scheme primitives
• Circuit Simulation using gEDA and SPICE - HOWTO
• net= attribute mini-HOWTO
• Switcap Symbols and Netlister
• Switcap netlister README
• Forward/Backward Annotation Between gEDA and Pads PowerPCB
• gEDA RF Cascade Symbols and Netlister
• Bill of Material netlister README
• Verilog netlister README
• VHDL netlister README
• VAMS netlister README
• SystemC netlister README
• Eagle PCB netlister README

• gsymcheck man-page

• gsch2pcb (gschem to PCB) README
• gsch2pcb tutorial
• tragesym (symbol generator) README
• tragesym Tutorial
• olib (OrCAD (TM) converter) README
• grenum man-page – note
• gattrib README – note

• Hierarchical SPICE model – note
• Example USB-based JTAG interface – note

• Master Attributes List
• sym/sch File Format Specification

• Implicit Mixed-Mode Simulation of VLSI Circuits by Albert Tatum Davis (1991)
  Please report if this URL goes dead.
• Circuit Simulation using gEDA and SPICE - HOWTO by Stuart Brorson (5 January 2006).
  Original versions of the above document are available at:
  • Circuit Simulation using gEDA and SPICE - HOWTO (HTML version) by Stuart Brorson (20 December 2004).
    This URL is a link to an archived version.
  • Circuit Simulation using gEDA and SPICE - HOWTO (PDF version) by Stuart Brorson (5 January 2005).
    This URL is a link to an archived version.
• gEDA - ngspice cheat sheet including a mini how to use the XSPICE models

• Ngspice home page
• ngspice User Manual
• ngspice and gschem
• ngspice man-page – note
• ngnutmeg man-page – note
• ngsconvert man-page – note

• Gnucap home page
• The Gnu Circuit Analysis Package Users manual – January 21,2004 version
• The Gnucap Model Compiler

• gSpiceUI home page

• PCB home page
• The pcb FAQ: faq-pcb
• The official manual of pcb
• A very detailed manual on footprint creation by Stephen Meier and Stuart Brorson. covers *.pcb file format. Remains compatible with current file formats.
• The man-page of pcb
• HOWTO: Add a ground plane to your layout
• Footprint generators for pcb
• plugins

• gerbv home page
• gerbv man-page
• Searching for Parts and marking them on screen (in gerbv)

• Icarus Verilog home page
• HOWTOs, READMEs, tutorials

• wcalc Home Page
• Wcalc README
• Wcalc man-page
• stdio Wcalc man-page

• Microstrip Analysis/Synthesis Calculator – latest documentation from sourceforge
• mcalc README

• covered home page
• covered User Manual – link to latest covered documentation on sourceforge
• covered Report Viewer – available in the Help menu of the GUI report utility
• covered man-page

• GTKWave – Digital waveform viewer which reads LXT, LXT2, VZT, FST, and GHW files as well as standard Verilog VCD/EVCD files.
• gwave – analog waveform viewer
• gaw – analog waveform viewer, a rewrite of gwave
• KJWaves – viewing, modifying, and simulating SPICE CIRCUIT files

• Conversion utilities for importing other EDA tools' data.