Application examples for hardware design

Allegro → KiCad / Eagle

Convert a Cadence Allegro .brd board to KiCad (.kicad_pcb) or Eagle (.brd XML). Everything happens in your browser — the file is never uploaded.

License

The binary parser is a JavaScript port of KiCad's Allegro importer (pcbnew/pcb_io/allegro/convert/), authored by Quilter and the KiCad team. Being a derivative work, this converter is distributed under GPL v3 or later. The common board reader (allegro/board/) and the KiCad (allegro/kicad/) and Eagle (allegro/eagle/) generators are original code.

Allegro is a trademark of Cadence Design Systems, and Eagle of Autodesk; neither is related to this project. The .brd format is not officially documented: the specification followed here is reverse engineering, so review the converted board before manufacturing.

The license, author notices and a download of the source code (built on the fly from the files this page is running) are available inside the converter itself, at the bottom of the panel above. Direct links: LICENSE (GPL v3) ·Authors and notices.