⚡ The electrical engineer's IDE

See inside
every circuit.

Blocks that explain themselves — and catch what doesn't add up.

No simulation · no guessing · vendor-neutral
buck-supply.elec — Electrace⬣ 1 error — over-voltage
✦ U1 — buck controller. Holds 5 V from a 9–18 V input; R1/R2 set the voltage.
24 V into U1 — rated 18 V max.VIN net, highlighted.
Power Entrydisc
24 V DC in
Buck RegulatorIC
9–18 V → 5 V · 3 A
U1
+5 V

A live Electrace design — hover a block to see what it does. And the linter just caught a 24 V brick feeding an 18 V-max regulator, before it shipped.

Other tools stay silent — or just guess.

Electrace is the one that shows you why.

How it works

An IDE — for circuits.

Self-explaining blocks

Authored intent, not guesses. Every block says what it does and why.

Drill into anything

Double-click into a block's real schematic — discrete or IC, every part labeled.

Linting, not SPICE

Voltage and current follow every wire — over-voltage, blown budgets, broken isolation, and overloaded connector pins get caught with the where and the why.

Transparency

Open any block.
Read every part.

The one IC stops being a mystery — you see exactly what surrounds it, and why.

  • A plain-language reason on every part.
  • ANSI or IEC symbols — your choice.
VIN+5 VU1R1 39k↳ sets 5 V
Sparky

An AI assistant
that doesn't get to guess.

Didn't we just say copilots guess? They do — because nothing checks them. Sparky is different by construction: everything it draws goes through the same deterministic linter as your own work. Every wire resolved, every budget recomputed, every claim checkable.

  • Builds from real, spec'd blocks — with a real BOM, not invented part numbers.
  • When it's wrong, the checker says so. Out loud, on the canvas.
  • Explains every choice in plain language — it's a tutor, not an oracle.
Sparky
"Add battery charging for a single Li-ion cell."
Placed Li-ion Charger (1 cell) — 4.2 V CV, 580 mA via the PROG resistor — and wired VBUS → IN, BAT → your load. Running checks…
14 nets resolved · budgets recomputed · 0 errors
+5 Vrail · connected
GNDground · connected
STATUS⚠ not wired
Typed nets

Nothing
forgotten.

Connect net-to-net — 5 V to 5 V, ground to ground. Leave one dangling and Electrace tells you, right there.

Voltage propagationCurrent budgetsShorts & polarityGalvanic isolationSignal integrityConnector ratingsRegulator thermalPCB DRC
Why Electrace

Not guessing. Not SPICE.
Not locked in.

AI copilots guess
We show what's declared.
Generators do it for you
We make you understand it.
Simulators need setup
Instant arithmetic checks.
Vendor tools sell silicon
Vendor-neutral, always.
And when you're done

Design it. Understand it. Build it.

Electrace is a free, browser-based circuit and PCB design tool built around one idea: you should be able to see inside every circuityou build. Every block carries its real schematic and the reasoning behind every part; the checking engine follows voltage and current through every wire and tells you where — and why — something won't work. Draw the schematic, lay out the board, export to KiCad, order the parts. No simulation setup, no install, no vendor lock-in.

Design with blocksLay out the PCBBuild it or get it made
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