So everyone has a particular tool set. I particularly like to learn about new tools so I can make my life easier. Feel free to post the most common tools you find using on a day-to-day basis: for example, I use/enjoy the following. They are organized in order of what I consider most important in my daily activities. * reliance on native windows shortcuts so I never have to touch the mouse * windows cmd shell and ms-dos scripting with linux hooks via cygwin * gvim (most favoritist plugin is Dr. Chip's Align tool) * old-fashioned white boards * xilinx design suite products * modelsim * altium designer * capturing of screen shots via alt-prtscreen and modification in mspaint * pspice sch capture to hspice netlist script