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Turning Allegro Library Editor into autonomous Quality Auditor
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Mar 19

Turning Allegro Library Editor into autonomous Quality Auditor

If you’ve ever spent four hours staring at a 484-pin BGA footprint, cross-referencing a smudged PDF datasheet while your coffee …

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From Circles to Circuits: How Pi Builds Better Boards
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Kaushal Kum…

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Mar 13

From Circles to Circuits: How Pi Builds Better Boards

Happy Pi Day! Every March 14th (3.14), the world takes a break to celebrate the most famous number in math. …

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Your EDA Tool Is Smarter Than You're Letting It Be
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Kaushal Kum…

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Mar 11

Your EDA Tool Is Smarter Than You're Letting It Be

Let's be honest. Most PCB engineers are using a ₹50 lakh EDA tool like a glorified drawing board. You route …

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How Capillary Underfill Saves Phones
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Jul 31

How Capillary Underfill Saves Phones

Simple explanation of how underfill works, why it matters, and why some devices last years while others fail. The invisible …

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RAG: Giving Your AI a Librarian’s Brain
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Kaushal Kum…

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Mar 04

RAG: Giving Your AI a Librarian’s Brain

Have you ever sat at your desk, staring at a 400-page datasheet for a new microchip, feeling like your brain …

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Stop Being a "Human OCR"
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Kaushal Kum…

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Feb 26

Stop Being a "Human OCR"

Have you ever started your workday with a fresh cup of coffee, only to spend the next four hours squinting …

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The Breathing Room: A Simple Guide to PCB Component Spacing
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Kaushal Kum…

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Feb 26

The Breathing Room: A Simple Guide to PCB Component Spacing

When designing a Printed Circuit Board (PCB), it is very tempting to squeeze all the components tightly together to make …

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Master EDA Automation
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May 29

Master EDA Automation

Master EDA Automation explores how eCAD librarians transition into automation engineers by writing footprint generator scripts. It covers core object …

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The Silent Saboteur: Pin 1 Polarity Errors in ECAD Libraries
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Kaushal Kum…

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Feb 26

The Silent Saboteur: Pin 1 Polarity Errors in ECAD Libraries

The Problem statement: In high-volume electronics manufacturing, a subtle error in the ECAD library can be a silent saboteur: inconsistent …

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Beyond Chat-bots: Automating the "Last Mile" of PCB Design with LLM4-IC8K
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Kaushal Kum…

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Feb 26

Beyond Chat-bots: Automating the "Last Mile" of PCB Design with LLM4-IC8K

For decades, hardware engineers have been stuck manually translating PDF mechanical drawings into ECAD library parts. It is a slow, …

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ISO 9001 and Your PCB Library: Quality Document
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Kaushal Kum…

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Feb 25

ISO 9001 and Your PCB Library: Quality Document

In the rush of product development, the PCB library often gets treated as a Digital junk drawer. It becomes a …

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eCAD Library Funnel
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May 20

eCAD Library Funnel

Discover the core four-stage eCAD library funnel—Intake, Triage, Build, and QA/Release: used to convert raw part requests into approved PCB …

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0.4mm Pitch QFN Trap: Why Your IPC Calc Goes Wrong
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Kaushal Kum…

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Feb 25

0.4mm Pitch QFN Trap: Why Your IPC Calc Goes Wrong

It was 4:30 PM last Friday. I had just finished a complex connector library design, generated the package, and added …

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The "Sixth Sense" of Library Design: Catching Projection Errors Before They Happen
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Kaushal Kum…

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Feb 25

The "Sixth Sense" of Library Design: Catching Projection Errors Before They Happen

Imagine this: You are making a footprint for a new connector. Everything looks good. The pads are the right size, …

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Building Safety into the Soul of the footprint library in Opto-electronic parts
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Kaushal Kum…

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Feb 25

Building Safety into the Soul of the footprint library in Opto-electronic parts

In the optical networking industry, we spend our days obsessing over decibels, nanometers, and gigabits. We talk about the "speed …

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