Imagine you’re searching an online marketplace for circuit board components. Little do you know, your every move is being packaged and sold— every click, every datasheet viewed, every file downloaded. Many such marketplaces sell your data, jeopardizing your intellectual property, compromising security, and inundating you with spam. At SnapEDA, we have taken a hard line…

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve collaborated with Osram to release new optoelectronics products on SnapEDA! These new products include photodiodes, phototransistors, LEDs, laser diodes and infrared emitters, which now come complete with symbols & footprints for instant design-in. Whether you’re designing automotive lighting, industrial, mobile, or general lighting electronics, Osram’s products are recognized…

Today we’re excited to announce a new collaboration that should put a smile on the face of any designer who has ever made a connector footprint from scratch. We’re launching support for over 25,000 TE Connectivity (TE) products on SnapEDA! Decrypting complex computer-aided design drawings, and translating those into the schematic symbols and printed circuit board…

Today, we’re launching InstaBuild, the world’s first free automated part builder! InstaBuild uses powerful computer vision technology to enable PCB designers to make parts in mere minutes.  Using a datasheet as the input, it automatically extracts symbol pinouts, understands whether a pin is an input, output or power pin, and auto-arranges the symbol based on…

Today we have great news to share for any PCB designers out there who are tired of making symbols & footprints for their designs. You can now find SnapEDA’s multi-CAD-compatible symbols & footprints on Digi-Key!

Background: I had the pleasure of working with Yi Yao in the Multisim R&D team at National Instruments. Yi was always the go-to person in the office for complex PCB design questions. After that, he went on to co-found a Y Combinator startup called Per Vices, focused on software-defined radio. Currently, Yi is at Synaptive Medical, a…

Name: Nazmus Sahadat Company: Georgia Institute of Technology Role: Graduate Research Assistant Location: Atlanta, GA Hi Nazmus. Which tools do you use for circuit board design? Why? Nazmus: I use Allegro for work, and KiCAD for my fun projects. Allegro is a much better tool with lots of optimization options. They have almost everything I need, but it is expensive for an…