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Is the tool "ELECTRIC" equivalent to "XSCHEM" ?

They both have schematic entry and schematic to spice netlist conversion, but I wouldn’t say they were equivalent.

Is schematic to layout conversion possible in Electric?

I don’t know that Electric has layout capability. Hard word to search for. :zany_face:

<https://www.gnu.org/software/electric/>
Looks like electric does layout (xschem does not). Didn’t see anything about automatic schematic (spice) to layout conversion.

Yes, Electric has layout capability.  But if you are looking for schematic-to-layout conversion, there are a few tools under development:  Look at ALIGN, BAG3, open FASoC, and RALF.

There is (was?) a discussion group on <#C01BPL3HECT|electric>, although I don't use Electric myself so I don't know how active that channel is.