Say you're building a bedside lamp that dims itself as the room gets dark.
Say what the lamp should do. It asks until every requirement is a number.
Each one traces back to the sentence that produced it.
Every choice carries the datasheet page behind it.
Ambient light · ±5 lm · 1.8 µA idle
LED driver · 12-bit dimming · 700 mA/ch
Take the parts into whichever CAD tool you already use.
What engineers ask before they trust a tool with a board. If yours isn't here, write to us.
The v1 beta runs requirements → electrical specs → component selection → export to the schematic tool of your choice. Drawing the schematic and laying out the board stay with you; Nodal hands over a frozen spec, the chosen parts and the net list.
It makes it auditable. Every assumption is editable, every part is rejectable, and the document recomputes what your change affects. You are reviewing a derivation, not accepting an answer.
Stated requirements, recorded assumptions with a cited basis, and manufacturer datasheets read down to page and section. Anything uncited is marked as such and ranks below a cited alternative.
Private beta opens fall 2026, in waitlist order. Tell us what you're building when you sign up — boards already in flight go first.
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