Your hardware designs deserve a better review process

We're looking for hardware teams to work with us as we develop this feature. Tell us what your team designs and how you review it today. We'll follow up personally, and what we hear shapes what we build next.

Instead of asking a reviewer to eyeball two plots side by side, Review Board reads the board and tells them what actually changed: C5 moved, C8 was added, D9 was removed, R15 went from 6.2K to 5.6K. Each change is highlighted in place on the layout, so the list and the board agree with each other.

Compare revisions in multiple ways to see how components and layout have changed. Toggle layers individually, front and back, so a copper change isn't buried under silkscreen. Then drop a comment on the component you're questioning, and it stays anchored there for whoever opens the review next week.

We partnered with Keysight to bring SOS support to Review Board. You can connect SOS projects as repositories and post changes for review straight from a local workarea, without exporting anything or copying design data to a third party.

If your designs and firmware live elsewhere, that works too. Review Board connects to:

• Keysight SOS
• Perforce
• Git, including self-hosted GitLab and Forgejo
• Subversion
• ClearCase
• ...and more

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A product isn't just the board. It's the RTL, the firmware that drives it, the test plan, the datasheet, and the compliance paperwork. Splitting those across separate tools means the reviews that matter most are the ones nobody can find six months later.

Review Board handles all of it in one workflow. Firmware code and RTL get side-by-side diffs with syntax highlighting. Schematics and PCB layouts get a powerful visual diff like you see above. Specs, test reports, and datasheets get rich document review with diffs and inline commenting.

Chip and board designs are the most sensitive things a hardware company owns, and they're frequently covered by customer NDAs, export controls, or ITAR. Review Board runs entirely on your own servers, including in fully air-gapped networks. Your designs are never uploaded anywhere, and are never used to train AI models.

Every review is a permanent record of who looked at what and who approved it, which is the same evidence an ISO 26262, DO-254, or internal tapeout sign-off audit is going to ask you for.