Electronics Design Enters the Age of AI
Quilter is using AI and a deep understanding of first principles physics to tackle bottlenecks in electronic design, starting with PCB layout.
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Why Hardware Waits While Software Ships Daily
In software, compilers unlocked an era of speed and innovation. Before compilers, engineers manually specified every bit — a priesthood of machine code. Today, an eight-year-old can write Python and build a video game. We owe this transformation to the compiler.
Electronics design is still "pre-compiler." Manual. Slow. Error-prone. Engineers spend days to months manually drawing every trace, placing every component, checking every rule. Every week spent on layout is a week not spent on invention. It's like writing machine code by hand in 2025.
Manual CAD toil is killing innovation. While software ships daily, hardware waits weeks for each iteration. Ideas die in the queue. Breakthroughs go untested. Teams choose safer designs because there's no time to explore.
The shortage of PCB designers compounds the crisis. Demand has outpaced global capacity by orders of magnitude. You can't hire your way out of this crisis. The humans don't exist.
Teams that adopt AI-driven design will own the next decade. Those clinging to manual risk becoming footnotes in history.
Physics-Driven AI for Electronics Design
PCB layout should be like using a compiler: press a button, get a result you trust. Reviewing your layout should be as ridiculous as reviewing machine code.
We know PCB design is incredibly complex. Every board has unique constraints, every design decision has cascading effects, and physics doesn't forgive mistakes. That's why we're approaching this problem with deep respect for what engineers face every day.
Current State
Manual layout that takes weeks. Autorouters that fail at 90% completion. Co-pilots that still need experts. Half-solutions that promise help but deliver frustration.
Our Destination
Instant, physics-checked designs. Limitless iterations. Faster bring-up. Fewer errors. Hardware development that moves like software deployment.
Our Guiding Principles
Learn from physics, not human patterns
We don't copy from humans; we’re working to solve the optimization problem directly. Cross-talk, impedance, and thermals all need to be considered.
Autopilot, not co-pilot
Complete designs, not partial routing. Upload your constraints, get working boards. We’re working towards the reliability of a compiler. No manual cleanup. No expert review required, like a compiler.
Boards become instant and unlimited
When layout takes hours instead of weeks, when simulations run in parallel, when iterations cost nothing, hardware teams can finally work like software teams. Test everything. Ship the best.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
What Becomes Possible With Infinite Iterations
Future organizations
Hardware teams work asynchronously, like software teams do today. Change requests compile automatically. Design-to-manufacturing loops compress from months to hours. Continuous integration for atoms, not just bits.
Abstraction
Just as compilers abstracted machine code, cloud abstracted servers, and no-code abstracted programming, Quilter abstracts electronic design. Focus on what to build, not how to route trace 10,847.
Capacity
Your best engineers return to invention. No more pulling PhDs to connect dots. No more outsourcing delays that leak IP. Every engineer becomes productive with hardware, from intern to architect.
Speed
Faster bring-up transforms everything. Test 10 variants in the time one used to take. More shots on goal mean more breakthroughs. Shorter cycles compound into massive advantages.
Quality
Physics validation on every net. First-spin success becomes expected, not exceptional. EMI passes. Thermals work. Power delivers clean. Signals arrive intact.
Social impact
Satellites reach orbit faster, increasing humanity's sensing capability. Medical devices iterate toward safety, saving lives. Defense systems adapt to threats in weeks, not years. Electric vehicles accelerate to market, cutting emissions sooner.
Early adopters are helping us push boundaries. Tier-1 automotive suppliers compress layout from weeks to hours. Aerospace contractors use Quilter-designed boards in spaceflight qualification. Defense laboratories accelerate sensitive programs. Together, we're expanding what's possible.
In five years, manual PCB design will feel like compiling code by hand.
The Future of Electronics Is Yours to Shape
PCB design has challenged engineers for decades, and we're not claiming to have all the answers. But we've made real progress on specific types of boards, and we're learning more with every design.
Some will stay with the old way; others will lead the future of electronics. Which path will you take?
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