CircuitLab provides online, in-browser tools for schematic capture and circuit simulation. These tools allow students, hobbyists, and professional engineers to design and analyze analog and digital systems before ever building a prototype. Online schematic capture lets hobbyists easily share and discuss their designs, while online circuit simulation allows for quick design iteration and accelerated learning about electronics.
Its been a little over a year since the CircuitLab startup has become one of the fastest growing startups in its field. This past spring CircuitLab released some impressive statistics, the numbers revealed that they have more than 70,000 unique monthly active users on average using their platform. Just recently the company also disclosed that they have been selected to participate in the Y Combinator accelerator program as part of the accelerator’s upcoming winter class of 2014. Circuit Lab co-founders, Mike Robbins and Humberto Evans, originally set out to create a new type of platform that would facilitate engineers being able to work together on multiple projects at the same time.
Circuit Labs wants to offer the public a tool that can help early stage hardware startups expand and quickly build momentum. This is very much possible thanks to the company’s electrical-engineering focused services. What the company is looking to offer engineers a web application that electrical design engineers can log on to and use to draw and create their own simulated circuit in a straight forward manner. With their application, there is no need for expensive and complex desktop software programs, detailed manuals or time consuming programs to create these simulations. Instead engineers can work together on projects with a platform that can work with virtually any browser.
One of the biggest reasons that the startup has not only taken off, but gained a great deal of traction is that the platform is free and has a very open natured design. This has made it popular not only with electronic engineers but also with academic institutions. From hobbyists to students to engineers and more, the CircuitLab platform is looking to change the way that people today are able to collaborate to work on electronic projects.
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