README.md

---
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
---

![Open Schematics](open-schematics.png)

# Open Schematics Dataset

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.

## Dataset Description

This dataset contains electronic schematic files along with their visual representations, component information, and metadata from various hardware projects.

### Dataset Structure

Each record in the dataset contains:

- **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

| 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

### Source Data

The dataset is compiled from hardware projects, with schematics created using EDA software.

### Data Collection

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)

### Data Processing

- 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

## Use Cases

This dataset can be used for:

- **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

- 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

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.

## Citation

If you use this dataset in your research or projects, please cite:

```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}}
}
```

## Contact

For questions, issues, or contributions, please open an issue on the dataset repository.