This presentation introduces KiCad, a powerful, free and open-source software suite for Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design. With robust features, active development, and growing community support, KiCad is a viable alternative to proprietary tools. We'll highlight key capabilities, recent improvements, and examples of successful designs to show why it's well-suited for use at CERN.
This presentation will highlight the experience and the way the Design Office of the BE-CEM-EPR Electronics Service handles Open Hardware projects. How Open Hardware projects are identified and how the storage is done on EDMS. What is important to take care when working on an Open Hardware project.
This presentation highlights the current level of IT support for KiCad users. We will outline the contract we have established with KSC to provide efficient technical support to our engineers; the scripts that convert our Altium parts library to KiCad; and a new CMF package for KiCad that will help automate software installation and library setup for Windows users.
This presentation takes a look at open hardware from the point of view of a procurement officer. It draws on real-life examples to examine the supposed advantages and disadvantages of going open source for hardware we have to procure. It will also touch on the issues of using procured proprietary software for designing open-source hardware.
