About boardviews

A boardview is the companion of a schematic. The schematic tells you that PQ12 switches the 3.3 V rail; the boardview shows you where PQ12 is on the physical board, which pads belong to which net, and where else that net surfaces so you can probe it.

Boardviews come in a dozen incompatible formats that depend on the factory that built the board. Most of them open in the free OpenBoardView; see the format reference for the exact match.

Helpful guides

• How to find the board number on a motherboard
• How to open boardview files
• How to read a laptop schematic
• How to flash a BIOS chip with a CH341A
• File format reference