NoPowerFix Board Viewer is a dream tool for bench technicians. Our goal is to build an app that can simulate a motherboard from its boardview and schematic, so a technician can understand the working principle of a working board. You get the freedom to analyze boards like never before, without worrying. No more replacing parts on doubt.
It is a free public beta. You may run into bugs and some features may not work properly yet. Tell us here so we can fix it together.
What it does:
- Boardview and schematic PDF side by side, click a part on one and the other jumps to it
- Power rails grouped by voltage, hover a pin to see its voltage
- Power on: the board’s own sequence, learned from the netlist and the schematic’s timing page
- Remove a part, cut a rail or short it to ground and see which rails stay off
- Top, bottom, both sides or overlay
Files it opens: .brd (Test_Link, BRD2, Eagle), BVR, GenCAD .cad, ASC, CAST .cst, Apple .bv, KiCad, Altium ASCII, IPC-D-356, IPC-2581, ODB++. A .zip, .7z or .rar with a boardview inside opens directly. Schematics: any PDF.
Not in the free beta: encrypted files like XZZ .pcb, ASUS .fz and Tebo .tvw.
No files at hand? Open one of the two demo boards built into the app: MNT Reform (open hardware) and Framework Laptop 13.
Get it from the Microsoft Store: NoPowerFix Board Viewer - Free download and install on Windows | Microsoft Store
Found a bug? Press “Report a problem” in the app, or reply here with the board number, the file type and what happened. Please don’t attach boardview or schematic files, the board number is enough.
The power-on and the faults are a simulation from your files. Confirm it by measuring before you replace parts.
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