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How to use net ties to improve schematic and board tracing.

Make board tracing more enjoyable and electrical schematics easy-to-read using net coloring, this feature is available in KiCad and Altium Designer.

Using new reference designator styles (U1 -> U1501) with page numbers to improve readability and modularity of the schematic sheets.

If you make a device with external RTC module this essay can help you to make simplest backup powering (reverse power) using coin cell battery.

Simple way to make hardware revision (REV1, REV2, REV3) using only one ADC pin, that helps to easy identify board version using MCU firmware, which give a change to easy maintain all board revisions taking into account all the device schematic changes .

The only possible and correctly working way to extract (export) .step model from the EasyEDA footprint.

Load switches are used for power control of any loads, typically it's used to fully enable or disable power of integrated circuits (chips) to achieve low power consumption in sleep mode.

Here is simplest high-side load switch on discrete components, that can be used instead of special ICs. Firstly some work simulation in MicroCap and then real testing with board.

Using slider – simple but powerful instrument for debugging and developing.

Small instruction of using STM32CubeMonitor to write (change) value to the variable (RAM address).

This short article help you to easily handle footprints courtyard (outline) overlap (overlay) clearance violations in KiCad by writing custom rule exceptions for specific components, to get 100% clear DRC without registration and SMS ?.

This short note will help you get rid of ERC violations easily and in the most right way ?.

Simple way to get binary and hexadecimal output files (firmware) from STM32CubeIDE project.

Small introduction in using plexiglas (acrylic) to make home-made electronic devices more good looking.

Fusion 360 is an impressive easy-to-use, intuitive and beautiful mechanical CAD but it cloud-based, so who knows what could be tomorrow ??.

So now we export all projects data in different formats to get reverse copy (backup) or switch completely to another CAD, such as FreeCAD ⚒.