KiCAD EDA is a free, open-source, and cross-platform electronic design automation suite. This software contains three different modules including Schematic Editor, PCB Layout, and 3D Viewer. Schematic ...

Linux PC company System76 has been selling laptop and desktop computers that ship with Linux software for years. But up until recently the company had primarily been sourcing its PCs from third-party ...

Out of curiosity, I redrew the Supercon Vectorscope badge schematics in KiCad last year. As you might suspect, going from PCB to schematic is opposite to the normal design flow of KiCad and most other ...

PCB design is the act of realizing a schematic into a physical form. Currently, human designers use electronic design automation (EDA) software to combine component placement and routing to realize ...

It’s easy to see why confusion abounds when looking for free PCB design software that’s worth a likely steep learning-curve effort. Free used to mean watered down. Today, however, programs that fell ...

Initially, the idea of autorouting sounds great. A machine that routes your board perfectly for you? Wouldn’t that be amazing? Unfortunately, early autorouters were far from perfect. Initially, the ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. In the development of SoC-based (system-on-chip) circuit boards, the SoC’s additional capabilities will provide ...

Back in 2010, Bob Pease sent me a couple pictures of some prototype printed circuit boards (PCBs) he had made in the early 1960s. Pease got to be a great analog engineer because he would hack away at ...