Links for Electrophiles!!!

Here are links that we've found that will take you to some serious, useful stuff, some completely frivolous stuff and some in between.  If you know of a site that should be on our list, please send it to links@capilano.com.

• Technology Partners - Companies we work with to bring you the best in ECAD Tools
• Sources of Free Schematics on the Web
• Links Sites
• Generally Useful and Fun Electronics-Related Stuff
• Shareware Sites
• Stuff Especially for Mac Users
• Other Things Near and Dear to Us

Our Technology Partners

These are companies that we work with to bring you the best in integrated, low-cost ECAD tools.

• Capilano Computing -- We do talk to ourselves!
• Accolade Design Automation, Inc. -- VHDL tools.
• IVEX Design International -- Windows-based PCB layout.
• SynaptiCAD Inc. - Timing diagram drawing and analysis
• Engineering DataXpress, Inc. - Products and services supporting EDIF
• Simucad - Logic Simulation EDA software.
• Douglas Electronics - Developers of Mac-based PCB solutions
• Deutsch Research - Nice SPICE!

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Sources of Free Schematics on the Web

• Try our own Free Schematic Archive of DesignWorks circuits.
• The Ampage - Ahh! That warm glow! Tube specs, tube amp diagrams, etc.
• Circuit Cookbook at the University of Alberta - A place for electronics enthusiasts to share circuit ideas.
• UW's Electrical Engineering Circuits Archive -- A site devoted to expanding the availability of circuit designs.
• FC's Electronic Circuits
• Aaron's Electronics Page
• Fabien's Schematic Page
• Guitar Equipment Schematics at muzique.com
• Electronics, Schematics and Programs or here - Interesting archive of circuits.

Electronics-Related Links Sites

• Circuitonline is a directory of services for the electronics manufacturing industry.It covers segments from integrated circuit to semiconductor manufacturing and PCB assembly. They also have a CAD tools page.
• CircuitWorld -- Lots of good Electronics-Related Links.
• Stanford's EE/CS Mother Site -- Starting point when looking for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science related information.
• Yahoo Electrical Engineering list
• EDAC - The Electronics Design Automation Companies - Link from here to all our friends and competitors in the ECAD world!
• Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln / Electronics Shop has a good set of resource listings, including a good page on Repetitive Strain Injury that all computer users should read.
• Tom Loredo's Massive Collection of Engineering and Science Links
• Electrical Engineering on the WWW

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Generally Useful & Fun Electronics-Related Stuff

• The Ampage - Ahh! That warm glow! Tube specs, tube amp diagrams, etc.
• Electronic Prototyping: Tips and Pitfalls
• Ham Radio Online - Lots of good ham-related stuff.
• The Chip Directory - A great resource! Who on earth typed all that stuff in?
• Filipe Gieszczykiewicz's Stuff -- The name won us over! Sci.Electronics FAQ, GIICM Search Form, Electronics FAQs, Repair Guides and Notes
• The Diode Page -- Everything you ever wanted to know about diodes but were afraid to ask!
• Ground Loops and How to Get Rid of Them
• Electronic Products Magazine - Search for product-related articles.
• The Rework & Repair Exchange - If soldering is your life, this is your place.
• Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center - Devoted to research on sensors and miniature moving mechanical elements or MEMS (MicroElectro Mechanical Systems). Build that robot spider you've always wanted.
• Unified Computer Science Technical Report Index at the University of Indiana
• MathSoft's Unsolved Math Problems - In case you can't sleep
• MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Pages on mathematicians, history of pi, Fermat's theorem, etc.
• Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Who ever heard of an engineer who could spel?
• Electronics Suppliers - A list of component suppliers with on-line data
• GEO: Guitar Effects Oriented Web Page - For all you plugged-in pickers
• Analog Music Zone - Design/construction of music electronics
• Power Systems Analysis - Theory and software for power systems
• Robot Books - Lots of cool info and stuff for amateur roboticists.

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Shareware Sites

We're not biased, but strangely enough all these sites list DesignWorks Lite!

• download.com
• winfiles.com
• Shareware Intercom - Spain
• Freeware Home
• Super Shareware
• SOFTSEEK
• shareware.netscape.com
• TopSoft

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Stuff for Mac Users

• Apple, of course
• MacDirectory Online, a global web- and print-based directory of Macintosh resources
• Tim Kennedy's Mac Stuff for Engineers
• Bob Rau's Engineering Files for the Mac
• The University of Michigan Mac Software Archive
• The Well-Connected Mac
• MacTech Magazine
• MacVersions - Version numbers and links to all manner of Mac software
• MacTron Mailing List - a mailing list for people interested in doing robotics, embedded software and other related things with their Macs
• Osmond PCB - a freeware PCB layout package for the Mac
• MacRobotics - including a shareware PIC controller package
• A Mac Electronics Page - with Mac hardware-related stuff, PIC resources, CAD software and more
• Crossbow Cross Assemblers for the Mac
• A freeware 68HC11 cross-assembler for the Mac plus some strange MIDI gear

Other Things Near and Dear to Us

• Our Home Town, Vancouver and a nice picture that will show you why we like to live here.
• Take a train ride on B.C. Rail