I decided to give PCB art a try and will be basing my attempt on methods described by Andrew Sowa. Andrew uses Adobe Illustrator for the art work and KiCad for the PCB design. I will also use KiCad but will use my trusty pre-subscription ...
Introduction The purpose of this blog is to analyse the advantages of placing circuits into a printed circuit board (PCB), and show the design process to make the PCB compatible with the hardware components which are mentioned in th...
devbisme announced his KiPart utility recently (KiCAD lovers, check out KiPart).Here's my write-down of the first trial. I took a part that was lying on my desk. It's a 9-pin LMG5200 GaN chip.I opened the datasheet and copied the pin ass...
If you're using KiCad, and you agree with devbisme that the native library editor of kicad sucks donkeys, check out his KiPart utility. www.youtube.com/watch No more clicking and digging through dialogs. Just use a spreadsheet to ...
Anyone who has learned a layout package like EAGLE and sent a board off to a fab knows the trepidation felt when submitting the final gerbers. It doesn't matter if the order is for 3 PCBs or 3,000 PCBs. The time lost from an error can ruin a proj...
