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What’s still missing for “make me a breakout board for part X”
Datasheet parsing • Need a tool that fetches the PDF URL (you already get it) → extracts pin-table text/CSV so the LLM can reason about pin names, functions and spacing. • Typical libs: pdfminer.six, pymupdf or an external OCR/PDF-to-HTML service.
Symbol / footprint generation • Either drive KiCad directly via pcbnew/schematic_editor python API, or emit Kicad-6 JSON (.kicad_kicad_sch / .kicad_mod) programmatically. • Expose those generators as new MCP tools: • create_symbol(pin_table, ref, footprint) • create_pcb_footprint(...) • place_breakout_board(symbol, connector, keepout, …).
Project-level operations • Tool to start a blank KiCad project in a temp dir, add the new symbol & footprint, wire nets, run ERC/DRC, export Gerbers. • Example: generate_breakout_project(mpn, connector_type, ...) -> zip. Front-end prompt(s) • High-level “Design breakout board” prompt template that sequences the above tools for the LLM.
Optional niceties • 3-D model lookup (STEP) via Octopart / SnapEDA. • Board-house DFM rules preset.