The lingua franca of electronic design is the schematic. I can pick up a datasheet written in Chinese (a language I do not read or speak) and usually get a half-decent idea of what the part is all ...
XJTAG announced the release of a free software for PADS® Schematic Design that will significantly increase the Design for Test and Debug capabilities of the schematic capture and PCB design ...
The drawings were then sent to an in-house architect for transfer to CAD software. This process took a long time, and often left out many important details. But it was not feasible for me to learn CAD ...