EAGLE is a scriptable electronic design automation (EDA) application with schematic capture, printed circuit board (PCB) layout, auto-router and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) features.

EAGLE stands for Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor (German: Einfach Anzuwendender Grafischer Layout-Editor) and is developed by CadSoft Computer GmbH.

The German CadSoft Computer GmbH was founded by Rudolf Hofer and Klaus-Peter Schmidinger in 1988 to develop EAGLE,[4][5][6][7] a 16-bit PCB design application for DOS.

This version also introduced multi-window support with forward-/backward-annotation, user-definable copper areas, and a built-in programming language with ULPs.

[11] A 32-bit DPMI version of EAGLE 4.0 running under DOS[nb 1] was still available on special request in order to help support existing customers, but it was not released commercially.

This version also introduced support for assembly variants and differential pair routing with length matching and automatic meandering.

Version 7.0.0 brought hierarchical designs, a new gridless topological pre-router called "TopRouter" for the conventional ripup-and-retry auto-router as well as multi-core support.

Autodesk will ultimately end any support for EAGLE on 7 June 2026, requiring their users to migrate to Fusion Electronics to access existing designs after that date.

In January 2020, EAGLE 9.5.2 was discontinued as a standalone product and is only licensed to users as a bundled component with an Autodesk Fusion 360 subscription.

SparkFun Electronics[23] is a company that has grown due to the hobbyist market exemplified by Make magazine and others.

[32] For further touching-up the finished designs in session format can be imported back into EAGLE via .SES to .SCR script file converters.

[4] The new demo, however, also contained spy code scanning the user's hard disk for illegal copies of EAGLE.

[34][35] This caused an uproar in the user community, in particular among those who work in secure or remote environments without direct Internet access and users for whom it is mandatory to be able to gain full access to their designs even after extended periods of time (several years up to decades) without depending on third-parties such as Autodesk to allow reactivation (who may no longer be around or support the product by then).

Many users have indicated they would refuse to upgrade under a subscription model and rather migrate to other electronic design applications such as KiCad.