KiCad, a free schematic capture and printed circuit board (PCB) design tool, comes packed with features usually found only in commercial CAD tools. One of these tools is the Design Rule Checker that ...

PCB Design Best Practices: Six things to consider when transferring a PCB schematic to layout. All the examples in this article are developed using the NI Multisim design environment, however the same ...

If you can't pick up the schematic and know (at a moderately high level) what the design is supposed to do and how it is supposed to do it, then you have not really done your job as the designer. The ...

For the last five months, I’ve been writing a series of posts describing how to build a PCB in every piece of software out there. Every post in this series takes a reference schematic and board, and ...

KiCad is a free and open-source software suite for Electronic Design Automation (EDA). It allows users to design schematics, create PCB layouts, generate manufacturing files, and even perform 3D ...

Here at Hackaday HQ, we all have opinions about the way we like to do things. And no surprise, this extends to the way we like to lay out circuits in schematics. So when we were discussing our own ...

Abstract: In electronic design automation (EDA), printed circuit board (PCB) design plays a crucial role. Ensuring the reliability of the PCB design tool chain is essential, as bugs in the tool chain ...

A lot of attention—and hype—has focused on bringing traditional office-productivity programs, such as the OpenOffice.org suite, to Linux. However, another important—and far less-hyped—area where Linux ...