Get Your PCB Design Reviewed by Industry Experts

A unique opportunity for PCB designers to receive professional feedback.

Get a Peer Review from Experienced PCB Engineers 

Have a PCB design you have completed or one that raised difficult signal, power, or layout questions? We are inviting PCB design engineers to submit real designs for technical review by Dan Beeker and Kirsch Mackey, two engineers with decades of experience evaluating production-grade hardware.

Dan Beeker previously served as a Technical Director at NXP Semiconductors, where he focused on Signal Integrity, EMC, and compliance for complex electronic systems. He brings nearly 50 years of PCB and electronic system design experience across a wide range of high performance and high-reliability applications. He is now the President and CTO of System Solution Specialists, LLC, where he works directly with engineering teams to diagnose design risk, improve margin, and resolve SI and EMI challenges.

Kirsch Mackey is an electrical engineer and educator with 15+ years of experience in PCB design, power electronics, and high-speed digital systems. He previously served as a Senior Electrical Engineer at Intel Corporation, where he designed PCBs to support Intel and third party silicon ranging from full system motherboards to specialized single-purpose daughter cards. He is the Owner and CEO of Hasofu, where he focuses on practical engineering education and real-world design methodology.

This is not a contest or sales pitch. Experience level is not the deciding factor. The goal is to give engineers insight into how experienced practitioners evaluate real PCB designs and reason through real-world trade-offs.

How It Works

  1. Submit the form with your background and a brief description of the design.
  2. Submissions are reviewed directly by Dan Beeker and Kirsch Mackey.
  3. You will only be contacted if your submission is selected. If selected, Dan or Kirsch will contact you directly with the next steps.
  4. Selected designs will be featured in a technical design review video published on Cadence channels.

Disclaimer

  • No design files are required to submit. If design files are requested later, they will be shared privately between you and the reviewers.
  • Submission does not guarantee selection. Due to limited review capacity, only a small number of designs will be chosen.
  • Any required NDAs are the responsibility of the submitter and reviewers.