Free Software Foundation and by Static Free Software starting in 2000. In 1999, development moved to Sun Microsystems, and in 2003 the original C version of Electric was discontinued in favour of a Java version, which was completed in 2005. Active development of Electric stopped in 2017, but fixes and support continues. See also List of free electronics circuit simulators Comparison of EDA Software References External links Computer-aided design software Electronic design automation software for Linux Free computer-aided design software Free electronic design automation software Free software programmed in Java (programming language) GNU Project software Free simulation software Electronic circuit simulators