Circuit design and board layout in KiCad, through to the manufacturing files, for hardware that has to be assembled at a real price.
Designed with manufacture in mind, because a board that can't be assembled cheaply is a prototype forever.
Circuit design through to placement and routing, with the antenna and power sections treated as the delicate parts they are.
Gerbers, drill files and a bill of materials in the form assembly houses expect, with parts that are actually in stock.
Component choice and board size driven by the target unit cost, decided early rather than discovered at quoting.
KiCad is open source, so your design files stay openable by anyone without buying a seat.
Through to the files a factory needs, including for our own hardware.
The part that decides whether a wireless product works. Ground planes, keep-out areas and matching aren't decoration.
Getting a board assembled at a real price: part availability, panelisation, test points, and the tolerances your assembler actually holds.
Importing from Altium or Eagle, with the checking that import always needs before anyone trusts it.
Component substitutions when a part goes end of life, and fixes that don't invalidate the certification you already paid for.
Written for someone deciding, not for someone who already knows. Skip it if you do.
Free, open-source software for designing circuit boards: the schematic that says what connects to what, and the layout that decides where every copper track physically goes. It produces the manufacturing files a factory needs, and it's now used for serious commercial work rather than only by hobbyists.
Two reasons, and the licence is only the second. Your design files stay in an open format you can read in ten years without a subscription, which matters for a product with a long life. There's no seat cost, so a small team can all have it, and there's no renewal that can hold your own board hostage.
It draws what you tell it. It won't tell you the antenna is too close to the ground plane, that a part is about to be discontinued, or that your assembler can't place components that small. Those come from experience, and they are the difference between a board that works and one that's a costly education.
Not in the layout: in the parts. A design using components with a forty-week lead time is a design you can't build. We check availability while choosing rather than after, because that's the mistake that stops production.
Discovered at the reorder, which is the worst moment. Worth a review before it's urgent.
Frequently the layout around the antenna rather than the firmware, and it's not fixable in software.
A tool you no longer license, or a consultant who kept the sources. This is a business risk more than a technical one.
We take the design to manufacturing files and work with assembly partners. We're not a factory, and we manage the handover.
It's capable enough for the boards we build and it's free and open, so files stay accessible to you and to whoever works on them next.
Yes. A review before manufacture is far cheaper than a re-spin after, particularly around power and antenna layout.
No. We do the electronics and the firmware and work alongside your industrial designer, because the board and the case constrain each other and that conversation has to happen early.
We design for it and prepare the documentation, and we work with an accredited test house for the testing itself. Pre-compliance checks before the formal test are what stop it becoming expensive.
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