AI-Powered Electrical Schematic Review

Welcome to BV Circuits, your AI-powered second pair of eyes for schematic review. Our online software identifies design errors and provides actionable improvement suggestions.

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  • Catch errors early in the design
  • Reduce costly PCB respins
  • Private and secure designs
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Supported EDA Tools

Export a schematic PDF, netlist and BOM from your EDA tool. No plugin or export script required. Select a tool for its step-by-step guide.

The Process

From Files to Insights in 3 Steps

Our AI-powered engine reviews your design files against thousands of industry standards, best design practices, and component datasheets to help you catch issues before your design moves forward.

1

Upload Your Design Files

Securely upload your schematics (single PDF with all pages), netlist (Protel2, KiCad or Xpedition's connection report), and BOM with manufacturer part numbers (CSV/XLSX).

2

AI Schematic Review

Our engine cross-references pin assignments, component compatibility, design rules, and logical errors.

3

Get a Detailed Report

Receive a comprehensive report listing errors, warnings, and optimization opportunities.

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AI-Generated Insights
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missing decoupling caps

Real Examples of Issues BV Circuits Detects

Our AI-powered engine helps identify critical design flaws that may be overlooked during manual review.

Missing Pull-Up on Open-Drain Output
Issue 1

Missing Pull-Up on Open-Drain Output

The Finding

U1 (TL331) output drives LED D1 through a 3.01kΩ resistor, but no pull-up resistor is present.

Technical Reasoning

The TL331 has an open-drain output, which can only pull the output low and cannot source current. Without a pull-up resistor to VCC, the LED will never turn on because no current can flow when the output transistor is off.

Recommendation

Add a pull-up resistor from the TL331 output to the supply rail so the LED can be driven when the comparator output is high.

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We understand how important your design confidentiality is. That’s why we built our platform with security and privacy at its core.

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Secure cloud storage with strict access controls

Encrypted connections (SSL) for all uploads and data transfers

Automatic file deletion within 7 days of analysis

Your designs remain private, your data is never shared or sold, and AI models are never trained on your data

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What Our Users Say

Vladimir Kostic

Vladimir Kostic

Head of Hardware, LopTech

"An essential checkpoint before putting any design into production. BV Circuits acting as a highly reliable automated assistant for hardware verification. With constant improvements being rolled out, the platform is clearly heading in the right direction."

Mario Strano

Mario Strano

PCB Designer

"The software identified some known issues and some things that slipped through the review process."

Petr Dvořák

Petr Dvořák

'That KiCad Guy'

"The output of the analysis is legit and legible and of a high quality."

Javier Alcina Espigado

Javier Alcina Espigado

PCB Designer

"It found a lot of mistakes in the design. Definitively, a tool that will become a standard in my design process. GREAT WORK from your team."

Daniel Tamir Nilsson

Daniel Tamir Nilsson

RF Engineer & CEO, NAES

"The tool has great potential. The process was Great, not too long, very easy to understand."

Vladislav Shokirov

Vladislav Shokirov

RF & Microwave Engineer

"The AI did not only check connectivity. It tried to understand intent, signal meaning, logic levels, and functional context. Even when a warning was not relevant for my design, the reasoning behind it was often correct."

Oria Yitzhak

Oria Yitzhak

Low Voltage Engineer

"I really loved how easy the tool is to use, everything is intuitive for the user, and the price is absolutely worth it."

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about our AI-powered schematic review.

BV Circuits uses a multi-layered AI engine informed by electronics standards, reference designs, technical documentations and datasheets. It reviews your design both visually and textually, using our proprietary, patent-pending methods to detect design pitfalls while minimizing false positives in the report. Read more about how it works →

BV Circuits supports KiCad, OrCAD, Altium Designer, EasyEDA (Pro) and Siemens Xpedition and PADS. It works from standard exports, so no plugin or export script is needed: a single schematic PDF with all pages, a netlist in Protel2 or KiCad format or Xpedition's connection report, and a BOM in CSV or XLSX format with manufacturer part numbers (MPNs). There is a step-by-step export guide for each supported tool.

BV Circuits focuses on circuit-level errors that ERC and DRC don't catch. For example: missing pull-up resistors on open-drain outputs, missing or insufficient decoupling capacitors, I/O voltage level mismatches between devices, pins connected contrary to the datasheet, wrong signal polarity, footprint mismatches, components exceeding their voltage, current or power ratings, analog circuits stability isuues, missing AC coupling on RF stages, misuse of ferrite beads, and obsolete parts.

No automated review is flawless, and neither is a human one. To keep the report trustworthy, findings are grounded in your netlist and in the component documentation, and the multi-stage process is designed to filter out the false positives and hallucinations common in general-purpose AI. Each finding shows its reasoning, so you can verify it in seconds. Design intent, edge cases and trade-offs still require your engineering judgment: BV Circuits supplements your review process rather than replacing it, and a single critical finding before fabrication can save a PCB respin.

No. ERC checks connectivity rules such as unconnected pins and conflicting drivers, and DRC checks layout geometry. Neither checks whether the circuit will actually work. BV Circuits reviews the electrical design itself: whether parts are used according to their datasheets, whether interfaces and power rails are compatible, and whether components are stressed beyond their ratings. Keep running ERC and DRC, use BV Circuits as an automated first reviewer, and keep the human design review for design intent and final sign-off.

BV Circuits is purpose-built for electrical schematic review, tailored specifically for hardware design, not a general-purpose chatbot. Rather than relying on a single AI pass, BV Circuits combines deterministic electrical checks with multiple stages of AI review across different models. This layered approach reduces hallucinations and false positives common in general LLMs, while surfacing issues that are more relevant to real-world hardware designs.

Uploads are encrypted in transit, files are kept in secure cloud storage with strict access controls and are automatically deleted within 7 days of analysis, and your designs are never sold or used to train AI models. For companies that cannot upload designs to a third-party cloud, the Enterprise Desktop App (Windows, macOS and Linux) runs the analysis on your own computer: design files are not uploaded to or stored on BV Circuits servers.

For best results, provide complete and accurate design files. Make sure your BOM includes correct Manufacturer Part Numbers (MPNs), your netlist is exported for the entire project (not a single schematic sheet) in a supported format such as Protel2, KiCad or Xpedition's connection report, and your schematic PDF is clear, high-resolution, and includes all design pages. The more complete and accurate the input, the deeper and more reliable the analysis.

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