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Hardware R&D finally hits software speeds. Drop in hardware-verified subcircuits spanning MCUs, Sensors, Analog, Interface and more—complete with EDA schematic and board files—at Quickboards.org

@UboPod For enterprise licenses, we charge a one time fee which gives royalty-free commercial use, and this also includes layout files. Hobbysit license only includes schematic and firmware files, no commercial rights.

@Quickboardsio do you charge a per-unit fee for commercial use/license or is it a flat one-time license fee? For analog, mixed signal or high speed design, the layout is also quite important. do you also provide layouts?

Hardware R&D finally hits software speeds. Drop in hardware-verified subcircuits spanning MCUs, Sensors, Analog, Interface and more—complete with EDA schematic and board files—at Quickboards.org

@UboPod Funnily enough, that's how we started a year ago. But there wasn't sufficient revenue to scale let alone pay our founder, and 99% of our customers only wanted the schematics-so we had to pivot.

@Quickboardsio make pre-fabricated modules and sell the modules. makes customers more confident that your designs are also sound.

@mgnfks A library of 80 foundational blocks researched, designed, manufactured and tested, to help you build products faster and achieve first spin success. If it's still too high, use promo code MAGNIFIKUS50 for 50% off, offer ends in 24hrs.

@Quickboardsio 300 bucks for IC + decoupling capacitors placed, pull resistors as some bonus? Dunno dude.

@UboPod How will we pay our engineers?

@Quickboardsio the licensing model is bad. it must be open sourced.

@FrancoisGervai2 All the schematics have already been layed out, manufactured and tested, you can be certain that the starting schematic is functional with the components in its BOM, but can certainly modify it to better suit your needs/application.

@Quickboardsio I like it but I’m not sure how well it can work, say for example I take a buck converter block and it specifies 10uF output caps. But there is so much variability between capacitors and in this case it will have a major impact on the result. How would this be handled?

@serarontine Site looks fine, DM us your IP if you're still having an issue.

@Quickboardsio Is the website currently down?

AOZ1280 Multichannel Buck Converter quickboards.org/documentation/…

Tip of the day: Implement a HAL Don't hardcode register-level commands into your application logic. Use a Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) to swap MCUs without rewriting everything.

PIC32MX Reference design quickboards.org/documentation/…

Tip of the day: Use a Watchdog timer. Code eventually hangs due to EMI or edge-case bugs. Use a Watchdog Timer as your "dead man’s switch" to force a system reset when things go sideways.

Read the full article: quickboards.org/arduino-altern…

We've run an interesting study comparing the most popular MCUs' cost vs MIPS:

@Aryannbrb At the moment, just Altium. and anyone can submit designs, but we'll only put it up if it follows a particular standard and meets certain requirements (active status, sufficient global stock, etc)

@Quickboardsio Please let people know the supported EDAs and whether users can contribute to provide snippets on their working designs?

Stop capturing schematics from scratch. Assemble your design using pre-validated, production-ready schematic blocks from Quickboards.

Tip of the day: Design for debugging. Never assume your first rev will work perfectly. Include test points, UART headers, and heartbeat LEDs to turn a 10-hour headache into a 20-minute fix.

We just released a MCU Power Budget Calculator. Select a microcontroller from a list of 50 popular options, set the active/sleep duty cycle, external load, and estimate average and peak currents for your application. quickboards.org/tools/microcon…

We created a new LDO Thermal Calculator to help engineers simplify thermal analysis and ensure design reliability. Calculate power dissipation and junction temperature in seconds with a few parameters. Try it here: quickboards.org/tools/linear-r… #Engineering #PCBDesign #Electronics #HardwareDesign #LDO

We've added 28 new sensor sub-circuits to the Quickboards Library: quickboards.org/library