EE368: Reverse Engineering of Printed Circuit Boards

For this project, a program was written which can automatically reverse-engineer a netlist of a oneor two-layer printed circuit board (PCBs) from photos of the board. Reverseengineering a printed circuit board (PCB) is useful for purposes such as repairing equipment for which component-level documentation is not available, integrating a poorly-documented board into a system, and for identifying obsolete parts. This process can be performed manually by either checking for continuity with a meter or by tracing over the images by hand, but an automated process would be faster and more reliable. The program is written in C++ using the OpenCV ([4]) library. It is an offline, non-interactive process, but various intermediate images are presented for testing and development purposes.