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| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| task_categories: |
| - text-generation |
| - image-to-text |
| - text-to-image |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - electronics |
| - schematics |
| - kicad |
| - hardware |
| - pcb |
| - circuit-design |
| - engineering |
| size_categories: |
| - 10K<n<100K |
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| # Open Schematics Dataset |
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| A comprehensive dataset of electronic schematics from hardware projects. This dataset is designed for training AI models on circuit design, component recognition, and hardware engineering tasks. |
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| ## Dataset Description |
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| This dataset contains electronic schematic files along with their visual representations, component information, and metadata from various hardware projects. |
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| ### Dataset Structure |
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| Each record in the dataset contains: |
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| - **schematic**: Raw schematic file content (primarily `.kicad_sch` format) |
| - **image**: PNG rendering of the schematic |
| - **components_used**: List of electronic components used in the schematic |
| - **json**: JSON representation of the schematic structure |
| - **yaml**: YAML representation of the schematic metadata |
| - **name**: Project name |
| - **description**: Project description |
| - **type**: File extension/format (e.g., `.kicad_sch`) |
| |
| ### Data Fields |
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| | Field | Type | Description | |
| |-------|------|-------------| |
| | `schematic` | string | Raw schematic file content | |
| | `image` | image | Visual rendering of the schematic (PNG) | |
| | `components_used` | list[string] | Electronic components used in the design | |
| | `json` | string | JSON representation of schematic structure | |
| | `yaml` | string | YAML metadata of the schematic | |
| | `name` | string | Name of the project | |
| | `description` | string | Description of the project | |
| | `type` | string | Schematic file format/extension | |
| |
| ## Dataset Creation |
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| ### Source Data |
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| The dataset is compiled from hardware projects, with schematics created using EDA software. |
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| ### Data Collection |
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| Schematics were collected from publicly available hardware repositories and processed to extract: |
| - Raw schematic files |
| - Visual representations (PNG images) |
| - Component lists |
| - Structured metadata (JSON/YAML) |
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| ### Data Processing |
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| - Empty schematics (without components or symbols) are filtered out |
| - Component names are extracted from library symbols |
| - Images are generated for visual representation |
| - Multiple format representations (raw, JSON, YAML) are provided for flexibility |
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| ## Use Cases |
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| This dataset can be used for: |
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| - **Circuit Design AI**: Training models to generate or understand electronic schematics |
| - **Component Recognition**: Identifying electronic components from schematic diagrams |
| - **Design Assistance**: Building tools to help engineers with circuit design |
| - **Documentation Generation**: Automatically generating documentation from schematics |
| - **Design Validation**: Training models to detect errors or suggest improvements |
| - **Educational Tools**: Creating interactive learning systems for electronics education |
| |
| ## Limitations |
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| - Dataset primarily contains `.kicad_sch` format schematics |
| - Quality and complexity of schematics vary across projects |
| - Some projects may have incomplete metadata |
| - Component naming conventions may vary between projects |
| |
| ## License |
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| This dataset is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0) license. Please ensure you comply with the original licenses of the source projects when using this data. |
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| ## Citation |
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| If you use this dataset in your research or projects, please cite: |
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| ```bibtex |
| @dataset{open_schematics_2025, |
| title={Open Schematics: A Dataset of Electronic Schematics from Hardware Projects}, |
| author={bshada}, |
| year={2025}, |
| publisher={Hugging Face}, |
| howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/bshada/open-schematics}} |
| } |
| ``` |
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| ## Contact |
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| For questions, issues, or contributions, please open an issue on the dataset repository. |
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