Hardware

Designing boards

Describe a circuit board in plain language and Morbium designs it, checks it for errors, and shows you a live 2D and 3D view you can iterate on.

Morbium's board designer turns a description into a real circuit board. You say what you want, it designs the board, checks it, and fixes its own mistakes, then shows you the result in the PCB viewer.

Design a board

Describe what you want in the composer. Be as specific as you like about the parts, the connectors, and the layout:

Design a board for an ESP32 dev kit with a USB-C port, a reset button,
          a user button, and a status LED.

Morbium hands this to the board designer, which writes the board and then validates it. Boards are saved as files in your project under .morbium/pcb, so they are real, versioned artifacts you own.

The design loop

The board designer does not just write a board and hope. It runs a loop:

  1. Write or change the board.
  2. Validate it, which renders the board and reports problems: compile errors, unconnected traces, missing footprints, and placement or design-rule errors.
  3. Fix whatever came back.
  4. Repeat until the board is clean.

This is why the boards it produces hold together. You can watch it work through the loop.

View the board

When a board is ready, the PCB tab opens in the workspace. You can:

  • Switch between a flat 2D layout view and a 3D view of the assembled board.
  • Pan and zoom to inspect traces, footprints, and placement.
  • Toggle routing to see the copper.

If a design has more than one board, a switcher lets you choose which to view.

Iterate

Ask for changes in plain language and the board updates in place:

Move the USB-C connector to the top edge and add two 3mm mounting holes
          in the bottom corners.
          
The LED should be on GPIO 2 with a 330 ohm resistor.

Each change runs through the same validate-and-fix loop, so the board stays correct as it evolves.

Multiple boards

You can keep several boards in one project, each in its own file with a descriptive name. Ask Morbium to show a specific one to bring it into the viewer.

Tips for good results

  • Name the parts you care about. If you want a specific microcontroller, connector, or sensor, say so.
  • Describe the interface, not the wiring. "Read a temperature sensor over I2C" is better than trying to specify every net.
  • Add constraints up front. Board size, mounting holes, and connector positions are easy to include in the first prompt.

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