Altium announced Toradex has licensed the Geppetto modular design tool to enable going straight from creating a design, to manufacturing a working printed circuit board, in just one session from the Toradex website. With Geppetto, engineers and designers of all levels now have easy access to modular prototyping and rapid production, propelling electronics design for the emerging AI and IoT markets.
One can create customized boards using a web-based ‘drag and drop designer’, with no schematic or layout experience required, with support for the Verdin and Colibri SoMs featuring the latest NXP i.MX 6, i.MX 7 and i.MX 8M Mini Applications Processors. Torizon, the open-source Linux platform, can be configured to support the custom boards built with Geppetto.
Geppetto is a free cloud-based design tool that enables electronics design by non-electrical engineers. Now Toradex users can create Geppetto-based carrier board designs for Toradex Computer-on-Modules and Single Board Computers in minutes, and have it ready to ship from 7 - 20 working days.
Geppetto Key Capabilities:
- Custom Web-design tool – embedded directly into the Toradex ecosystem, Geppetto provides a simple drag and drop design platform to develop production-ready prototypes for IoT and AI applications.
- Free Design, BSP, and 3D Model files On Demand - Geppetto generates EagleCAD, .BRD and .SCH files of your design on-demand, as well as instant pricing and customized device trees, datasheets and .STL models.
- Altium Viewer - With Altium Viewer embedded in the Geppetto interface, Geppetto also provides Altium Designer project files and high-quality PDF schematics.
- Rapid Manufacturing - Carrier boards designed and ordered in Geppetto reduces engineering cost and errors. Geppetto automates the PCB routing, BOM, fabs and assembly. Electronics arrive pretested, application ready, and fully assembled in 15 business days.
About Geppetto
Geppetto® is a free online design tool that lets almost anyone create electronic device designs. Hardware design can be created in minutes, complete with BOM documentations and pricing. Users can clone existing templates, create multiple projects, and go straight from a design to a production ready order in one session. Geppetto is an Altium product.
