PCB layout and interconnect
Start here when you need trace width, impedance, via current, pair skew, or stackup sanity checks before release.
Tool Hub
Start from the job you need to get done, not from a giant alphabetical list. NodeLoop groups its 34 tools by real engineering workflows so you can move from first-pass math to a cleaner review packet faster.
Use the quick paths below if you already know the kind of problem you are solving. The full tool index stays at the bottom when you just want to browse everything.
Start By Task
These entry points are tuned for how engineers actually search when they are in the middle of a design review, layout pass, or bring-up session.
Start here when you need trace width, impedance, via current, pair skew, or stackup sanity checks before release.
Use these when you are estimating autonomy, sizing hold-up energy, or checking a power path before hardware review.
Reach for these when a board-to-board link, sensor bus, or connector mapping is the real blocker, not the math.
These are the fastest paths when you are wiring debug headers, decoding faults, or validating hardware from a browser.
Most Used
These are the best entry points when you want practical design help fast: impedance, debug wiring, pull-ups, vias, autonomy, and trace sizing.
Estimate controlled-impedance PCB traces with Hammerstad and Wheeler models. Tune dielectric height, Er, copper, and trace width.
Find JTAG and SWD pinouts for common debug headers and probes. Compare ARM 10-pin, 20-pin, ST-Link, J-Link, Tag-Connect, and more.
Size I2C pull-up resistors from bus capacitance, cable length, VCC, rise-time limits, and sink current for Standard and Fast mode.
Calculate via current capacity and thermal properties using IPC-2221 standard. Determine how many vias you need for your power traces.
Estimate battery life from active and sleep current, duty cycle, battery capacity, and regulator losses. Useful for low-power embedded system design.
Calculate PCB trace width from current, copper weight, temperature rise, trace length, resistance, voltage drop, and power loss.
PCB workflow
These tools are the first pass for board geometry decisions: line width, impedance targets, via current, differential skew, and stackup assumptions before a fab note or layout review.
Estimate controlled-impedance PCB traces with Hammerstad and Wheeler models. Tune dielectric height, Er, copper, and trace width.
Design PCB stackups and calculate controlled impedance for high-speed signals. Interactive stackup builder with microstrip, stripline, and differential pair calculations.
Calculate PCB trace width from current, copper weight, temperature rise, trace length, resistance, voltage drop, and power loss.
Calculate via current capacity and thermal properties using IPC-2221 standard. Determine how many vias you need for your power traces.
Calculate an initial via stitching pattern for ground planes. Compare IPC minimum spacing against the EMI lambda over 20 rule and estimate a practical via grid.
Calculate skew between differential pair traces and determine required length adjustments for timing alignment.
Power workflow
Use this group when the risk is power budget, brownout margin, regulator stress, or a path-selection mistake that only shows up late in validation.
Estimate battery life from active and sleep current, duty cycle, battery capacity, and regulator losses. Useful for low-power embedded system design.
Estimate VBAT sag during a peak current burst (I*R + ESR step + RC droop). Size hold-up caps and check brownout margin.
First-pass sizing for buck and boost converters: pick ripple targets, get L/C starting points, sanity-check a chosen BOM, explore worst-case corners, and export a review-ready summary.
Compare Schottky diodes, discrete P-MOSFET stages, and ideal-diode controllers for low-drop power paths, OR-ing, and reverse-current protection.
Turn a scope capture into RC snubber values: estimate parasitic L/C from ringing frequency, pick Csnub, and get a starting Rsnub plus loss estimates.
Determine the best series resistor (Rs) for an NTC thermistor to maximize voltage swing or improve linearity over a specific temperature range. Calculates standard E12 resistor values.
Interfaces workflow
These pages help when a link budget, pull-up value, connector map, or harness definition is what really blocks the next prototype spin.
Size I2C pull-up resistors from bus capacitance, cable length, VCC, rise-time limits, and sink current for Standard and Fast mode.
Easily calculate and validate I²S and TDM clock configurations (BCLK, LRCK, MCLK) for your digital audio projects. Ensure correct clock ratios for MCUs, CODECs, DACs, and ADCs based on sampling rate, bit depth, and channel count.
Size RS-485 fail-safe bias resistors, sanity-check termination loading, and get practical CAN termination values (classic + split) with quick notes.
Interactive reference and configuration tool for the 24‑pin USB Type‑C connector. Select common use-cases to see exactly which pins you need to connect.
Interactive T568A/B pinout tool for creating straight-through or crossover Ethernet cables. Includes cable category guides and use-cases.
Create and visualize cable harness diagrams directly by describing them in YAML. Generate instant SVG pinouts for your electronics and electrical harness projects.
Lab workflow
Reach for these when you need to connect a probe, inspect a descriptor, decode a crash, or capture hardware behavior without leaving the browser.
Find JTAG and SWD pinouts for common debug headers and probes. Compare ARM 10-pin, 20-pin, ST-Link, J-Link, Tag-Connect, and more.
Advanced Cortex-M HardFault decoder. Analyze CFSR, HFSR, BFAR, MMFAR + stack frame (PC/LR/xPSR). Works great with STM32, nRF, NXP and more.
Connect to your microcontroller over Web Serial (no install). Monitor logs, send commands, plot data in real-time, and flash firmware on supported boards.
Browser-based BLE debug panel: connect with Web Bluetooth, explore GATT, read/write/notify, plot live values, get RSSI from advertisements (scan/watch when supported), run a GATT link test, and export logs/reports.
Flash BIN/HEX, run SWD link checks (DPIDR + CPUID), and read memory from a CMSIS-DAP probe — straight from your browser. No installs.
Paste hex or C arrays to decode HID report descriptors, then edit visually and export HEX, C, TinyUSB, or STM32 snippets. Includes ready-made keyboard, mouse, gamepad, and media-key templates with live explanations.
Reference math
These are the quick-turn pages for day-to-day electronics work: dividers, filters, resistors, clocks, timers, coils, and small calculations you should not have to do from scratch.
Best-in-class voltage divider calculator: Vout, current, resistor power, optional load (Rload), ADC input sizing tips, and practical guidance for UART/I²C/logic level shifting.
Design practical Sallen-Key active low-pass and high-pass filters: quick sizing from f0 or from fp/fs specs (Butterworth / Chebyshev I), E-series rounding, op-amp sanity checks, Bode/step plots, and SPICE export.
Interactively calculate and visualize the frequency response (Bode plots) of common RC and RL passive electronic filters. Determine cutoff frequencies, and analyze magnitude and phase characteristics.
Quickly calculate the required series resistor for your LED. Find the nearest standard resistor value and power dissipation to safely light up your project.
Easily calculate resistor values from color codes. Supports 4-band, 5-band, and 6-band resistors, including tolerance and temperature coefficient (TCR).
Calculate the perfect load capacitors for your crystal oscillator. Interactive tool for MCU clock circuits with frequency accuracy analysis and component recommendations.
Best-in-class coil inductance calculator for single-layer air-core solenoids, plus an experimental rod-core model. Solve for inductance or for turns, switch units, share presets, and learn theory/limits with a concise FAQ.
Calculate frequency, duty cycle, and pulse duration for 555 timer circuits in astable or monostable mode.
Tool To Guide Handoff
The calculators and explorers are meant to speed up decisions, not replace design context. If you need the theory, common mistakes, or bring-up sequence around the tool, jump into one of these supporting guides.
Read the Hammerstad guide before locking a trace geometry.
Use the command-sequence guide before assuming the card is dead.
Read the workflow guide when capacitance and cable routing matter.
Use the PD design guide alongside the pinout and power-path tools.
Full Index
The curated sections above are the shortest path when you know the class of problem. This index stays here for broad browsing and long-tail discovery.
Compare Schottky diodes, discrete P-MOSFET stages, and ideal-diode controllers for low-drop power paths, OR-ing, and reverse-current protection.
Paste hex or C arrays to decode HID report descriptors, then edit visually and export HEX, C, TinyUSB, or STM32 snippets. Includes ready-made keyboard, mouse, gamepad, and media-key templates with live explanations.
Best-in-class voltage divider calculator: Vout, current, resistor power, optional load (Rload), ADC input sizing tips, and practical guidance for UART/I²C/logic level shifting.
Design practical Sallen-Key active low-pass and high-pass filters: quick sizing from f0 or from fp/fs specs (Butterworth / Chebyshev I), E-series rounding, op-amp sanity checks, Bode/step plots, and SPICE export.
Advanced Cortex-M HardFault decoder. Analyze CFSR, HFSR, BFAR, MMFAR + stack frame (PC/LR/xPSR). Works great with STM32, nRF, NXP and more.
First-pass sizing for buck and boost converters: pick ripple targets, get L/C starting points, sanity-check a chosen BOM, explore worst-case corners, and export a review-ready summary.
Size RS-485 fail-safe bias resistors, sanity-check termination loading, and get practical CAN termination values (classic + split) with quick notes.
Estimate VBAT sag during a peak current burst (I*R + ESR step + RC droop). Size hold-up caps and check brownout margin.
Flash BIN/HEX, run SWD link checks (DPIDR + CPUID), and read memory from a CMSIS-DAP probe — straight from your browser. No installs.
Browser-based BLE debug panel: connect with Web Bluetooth, explore GATT, read/write/notify, plot live values, get RSSI from advertisements (scan/watch when supported), run a GATT link test, and export logs/reports.
Connect to your microcontroller over Web Serial (no install). Monitor logs, send commands, plot data in real-time, and flash firmware on supported boards.
Estimate battery life from active and sleep current, duty cycle, battery capacity, and regulator losses. Useful for low-power embedded system design.
Turn a scope capture into RC snubber values: estimate parasitic L/C from ringing frequency, pick Csnub, and get a starting Rsnub plus loss estimates.
Calculate an initial via stitching pattern for ground planes. Compare IPC minimum spacing against the EMI lambda over 20 rule and estimate a practical via grid.
Calculate via current capacity and thermal properties using IPC-2221 standard. Determine how many vias you need for your power traces.
Calculate PCB trace width from current, copper weight, temperature rise, trace length, resistance, voltage drop, and power loss.
Calculate the perfect load capacitors for your crystal oscillator. Interactive tool for MCU clock circuits with frequency accuracy analysis and component recommendations.
Design PCB stackups and calculate controlled impedance for high-speed signals. Interactive stackup builder with microstrip, stripline, and differential pair calculations.
Size I2C pull-up resistors from bus capacitance, cable length, VCC, rise-time limits, and sink current for Standard and Fast mode.
Best-in-class coil inductance calculator for single-layer air-core solenoids, plus an experimental rod-core model. Solve for inductance or for turns, switch units, share presets, and learn theory/limits with a concise FAQ.
Quickly calculate the required series resistor for your LED. Find the nearest standard resistor value and power dissipation to safely light up your project.
Calculate frequency, duty cycle, and pulse duration for 555 timer circuits in astable or monostable mode.
Convert AWG to mm and mm², check ampacity (with bundling derating), compute voltage drop with temperature/material, and compare gauges visually. Includes exportable reference table.
Interactive T568A/B pinout tool for creating straight-through or crossover Ethernet cables. Includes cable category guides and use-cases.
Find JTAG and SWD pinouts for common debug headers and probes. Compare ARM 10-pin, 20-pin, ST-Link, J-Link, Tag-Connect, and more.
Interactive reference and configuration tool for the 24‑pin USB Type‑C connector. Select common use-cases to see exactly which pins you need to connect.
Calculate skew between differential pair traces and determine required length adjustments for timing alignment.
Estimate controlled-impedance PCB traces with Hammerstad and Wheeler models. Tune dielectric height, Er, copper, and trace width.
Create and visualize cable harness diagrams directly by describing them in YAML. Generate instant SVG pinouts for your electronics and electrical harness projects.
Easily calculate and validate I²S and TDM clock configurations (BCLK, LRCK, MCLK) for your digital audio projects. Ensure correct clock ratios for MCUs, CODECs, DACs, and ADCs based on sampling rate, bit depth, and channel count.
Interactively calculate and visualize the frequency response (Bode plots) of common RC and RL passive electronic filters. Determine cutoff frequencies, and analyze magnitude and phase characteristics.
Interactively generate M.2 connector pinouts based on module key (A, B, E, M) or application (SSD, Wi-Fi, WWAN). Filter pins and view keying diagrams. Find the specific M.2 pin configuration you need.
Determine the best series resistor (Rs) for an NTC thermistor to maximize voltage swing or improve linearity over a specific temperature range. Calculates standard E12 resistor values.
Easily calculate resistor values from color codes. Supports 4-band, 5-band, and 6-band resistors, including tolerance and temperature coefficient (TCR).