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Do you do PCB design for a living? Has KiCad been just a tiny bit insufficient for your lightning-fast board routing demands? We’ve just been graced with the KiCad 9 …read more Continue reading KiCad 9 Moves Up In The Pro League
Rev up your browsers, package managers, or whatever other tool you use to avail yourself of new software releases, because the KiCAD team have announced that barring any major bugs …read more Continue reading Get Ready For KiCAD 9!
Here’s a question for you: when your PCB has a ground plane layer, where do return signals flow? It seems like a trick question, but as [Kristof Mulier] explains, there’s …read more Continue reading Proper Routing Makes for Many Happy Return Paths
While the “should have used a 555” meme is strong around these parts, we absolutely agree with [Kelvin Brammer]’s decision to make this 555-shaped plug-in replacement for the 555 timer …read more Continue reading A 555-Shaped Discrete Component 555
A few days ago, KiCad 8 was released, and it’s a straight upgrade to any PCB designer’s quality of life. There’s a blog post as usual, and, this year, there’s …read more Continue reading KiCad 8 Makes Your Life Better Without Caveats
If there’s one thing we like around here more than seeing an improved version of a project we’ve already covered, it’s when the improvements make the original project cheaper. In …read more Continue reading Pimp My Pot Redux, Now Cheaper and Even Better
AI is big news lately, but as with all new technology moves, it’s important to pierce through the hype. Recent news about NVIDIA creating a custom large language model (LLM) …read more Continue reading NVIDIA Trains Custom AI to Assist Chip Designers
If you’re like us, there’s a creeping feeling that comes over you when you’re placing an order for parts for your latest project: Don’t I already have most of this …read more Continue reading EcoEDA Integrates Your Junk Bin into Your Designs
Nearly three years ago at the start of 2020 and before the pandemic hit, we took a look at an up-and-coming player in the world of PCB design. LibrePCB is …read more Continue reading Review: LibrePCB Hits Version 1.0
Migrating a PCB design from one CAD software package to another is no one’s favorite task. It almost never works cleanly. Often there are missing schematic symbols, scrambled PCB footprints, …read more Continue reading Importing EAGLE Projects Into KiCad 7, And How To Fix Them