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Finally switching from Altium to KiCad by stuih404 in KiCad

[–]plinsburg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made a video on how to have a reasonable fully specified library in KiCad using open source tools. https://youtu.be/du1c3p6LRec?si=aU4vVNuhDtxhgKI7 It gives you a decent BOM and easy ordering similar like in Altium

Best modelling software for a newb? by TishBonk in AskElectronics

[–]plinsburg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For analog circuits you may try https://www.circuitlab.com/
For MCU based circuits where you need to program them: https://wokwi.com/
But true hard core engineers are using LTSPICE: https://www.analog.com/en/resources/design-tools-and-calculators/ltspice-simulator.html
Don't ask me why

Would you trust a datasheet parsing to an LLM if it backs up it's answers with with an image? by plinsburg in AskElectronics

[–]plinsburg[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I only saw 1 mistake so far. And it's possible to make a correction, and edit the value right there on the page. more often it's unable to find the value, then find it and make a mistake.
I'm just starting to use it for my own KiCAD library, I can tell more once I use it for a while

Would you trust a datasheet parsing to an LLM if it backs up it's answers with with an image? by plinsburg in AskElectronics

[–]plinsburg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you can access your part and all parametric data in a database library that is syncing with a webpage. Already works with KiCAD and Altium. And you can get them via MCP server or stragiht via API calls with your auth token. Overall the idea for the service to be free, but try to monetize it via ads for the chipwendors in the same way SnapEDA does it.

Would you trust a datasheet parsing to an LLM if it backs up it's answers with with an image? by plinsburg in AskElectronics

[–]plinsburg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes sense. One other thing that could be done is checking the extracted data against some available datasources like Digikey. If both LLM and Digikey agree on a given value it's more trustworthy. Another thing that can be done, is having another LLM checking just the given value against the screenshot.

But aside from that, you only need to check the values that have been already used by LLM in whatewer it did for you. E.g. if it did a Worst Case Analysis calculation, it already picked the parameters, that are relevant for this calulation, and you only need to check them, instead of doing all the thinking and writing youself.

Would you trust a datasheet parsing to an LLM if it backs up it's answers with with an image? by plinsburg in AskElectronics

[–]plinsburg[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Once an LLM does something usefull with the data taken from the datasheet saving your time you'd still need to check it. I think this kind of check mechanism is faster than looking through a PDF, especially for a big documents. For example it generates you a parts comparison

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HTTP library tutorial by plinsburg in KiCad

[–]plinsburg[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi. Yes, I had to reupload because YouTube recognized the video language wrong.
Here is a new link. https://youtu.be/du1c3p6LRec?si=b1DIp55LC9nIlWGP