About PCBBench

PCBBench is maintained by ProtoFlow, a company developing AI-assisted PCB design software. The site contains technical evaluation guidance, a proposed benchmark protocol and a dated pilot snapshot.

Published scope

The guides are editorial checklists. The task pages describe proposed capabilities. The pilot page contains partial measured attempts with limitations. Comparable Season 1 rankings have not been released.

Evidence policy

Editorial examples are not model performance measurements. Proposed task counts and weights are planning targets. Simulation, clean EDA reports, fabrication packages and working physical boards supply different evidence.

Placeholder scores are excluded from public rankings. Future rankings should disclose task scope, configuration, failures, evidence and maintainer relationships.

Editorial process

Guides are prepared by PCBBench editorial with AI assistance. They synthesize evaluation methods and tool documentation and do not claim independent laboratory testing or certification. Individual pages link primary references. Apply checklists with the exact device documentation and project requirements.

Corrections

Send the page URL, disputed statement and supporting evidence to admin@protoflow.ai. Material result and methodology changes should appear in the changelog.

Related research

This project is separate from PCBench, PCB-Bench and PCBBench in PCBSchemaGen. See prior work. Refer to this project as PCBBench (pcbbench.org) to disambiguate it.

PCB Arena

PCB Arena is a proposed future comparison format. Voting and human-preference ratings are not live. Both public domains lead to this canonical site.