Datasheets, actually read
Every claimed number carries its provenance: a catalog attribute or a datasheet page. Unknowns stay honestly unknown instead of buying a green light.
Describe the electronics you need. Hephaest reads the datasheets, designs the circuit, lays out the board physics-aware, and hands back tested, validated hardware. The board you're looking at is one of its unedited outputs.
Every part on this board was chosen by reading the manufacturer's own datasheet, with stock and availability checked as it sources. Nothing is guessed, and every line is orderable.
Every auxiliary component the datasheets call for is in the circuit, every design guideline they state is followed, and the schematic is checked electrically until it holds up.
Placement and routing driven by the physics: ground planes, return paths, decoupling at the pins. Then the design is simulated, end to end, before anything physical exists.
The board carries fiducials and testpoints, and ships as gerbers, pick-and-place, a priced, in-stock BOM, and firmware 1.0 already written for it.
The assembled board goes into the cell, which flashes the firmware, runs it, and measures the board live: oscilloscope, wave generator, digital multimeter, digital logic analyzer, brought to any point on the board.
Design your first boardEvery claimed number carries its provenance: a catalog attribute or a datasheet page. Unknowns stay honestly unknown instead of buying a green light.
Ground planes and stitched copper pours, return-path-aware routing, corridor-aware fanout for fine-pitch parts, and a design-rule check that must return clean before anything ships.
Register-level C written for the board, built with the real toolchain and passing its self-test in emulation before power ever touches copper.
The cell brings the board up and measures it live: oscilloscope, wave generator, digital multimeter and digital logic analyzer, on any testpoint the design placed for them.