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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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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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Why I’m Adding Infineon’s Newest Gas Sensor to My Library Watch list
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Kaushal Kum…

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Feb 25

Why I’m Adding Infineon’s Newest Gas Sensor to My Library Watch list

I was browsing through the website yesterday, just keeping up with new releases, when I stumbled upon the XENSIV™ TCI—their …

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The Digital Associate: Elevating the ECAD Library with Claude AI
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Kaushal Kum…

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Feb 25

The Digital Associate: Elevating the ECAD Library with Claude AI

When I first heard about the massive impact Claude AI was making across the IT industry, it triggered a curiosity …

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Mastering Pemnuts for modern Hardware design
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Kaushal Kum…

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Feb 16

Mastering Pemnuts for modern Hardware design

It is a total "lightbulb moment" when you first see a PEM nut on a Bill of Materials (BOM) for …

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Why Your CAD Tool Is The Latency Killer
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Kaushal Kum…

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Feb 14

Why Your CAD Tool Is The Latency Killer

Have you ever sat down to work, ready to dive into a design, only to have your computer treat a …

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