KiCad plugins · Active development

WayriCADFormerly KiWay

Design, inspect, and check a PCB without losing the context of the board. Independently installable tools bring power, signal, and thermal studies alongside everyday layout and manufacturing work.

Quick PI geometry and source/load controls on the public Marble PCB
Quick PI on Berkeley Lab’s public Marble board. This screenshot shows extracted geometry and inputs, not a solved field.

Three questions, three tools

Follow the current, the signal, and the heat.

Quick PI

Inspect DC voltage drop, current density, and copper losses using saved copper geometry, source/load terminals, and explicit current assumptions.

Quick PI guide ↗

Quick SI

Screen a routed signal for delay, reflections, termination, and return-path information alongside its stackup and driver/load assumptions.

Quick SI guide ↗

QuickTherm

Explore declared dissipation and thermal paths, from lumped component estimates to supported steady-state and transient board models.

QuickTherm guide ↗

These are model-based engineering checks. Review materials, operating inputs, boundaries, omitted geometry, and convergence before relying on a result.

Keep the route beside the result.

Quick SI route inspection with driver inputs and delay and reflection results
Quick SI screening with entered line and driver assumptions; not a measured channel or protocol sign-off.
QuickTherm three-dimensional inspection of a generated thermal demonstration board
Computed thermal demonstration under assumed loads and cooling. Component markers are illustrative; temperatures are not measurements.

See an executed Quick PI study on IRCA →

Part of the wider board workflow.

The suite also covers fanout, via stitching, trace refinement, BOMs, assembly variants, silkscreen placement, constraints, and manufacturing review. Install the tools you need and refer to each plugin’s guide for its supported inputs and model scope.

Browse the tool catalogue ↗