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If anything, it is surprising that the LLM is so bad at stealing a ready-made RP2350 design! There are plenty of easy-to-find tutorials like [0] and [1] that ha
by crote 12d ago
If anything, it is surprising that the LLM is so bad at stealing a ready-made RP2350 design! There are plenty of easy-to-find tutorials like [0] and [1] that handhold you through the entire design process, and a simple search will give you dozens of design files for open-source boards.
At this level of board complexity you almost have to try to make it completely non-functional, so although it is nice to see it in practice I am not exactly surprised that a LLM with a decent bunch of assistance managed to do it. But there's quite a gap between the equivalent of poorly copying a "Hello World" from StackOverflow and making actual production-ready boards.
[0]: https://pip-assets.raspberrypi.com/categories/1214-rp2350/documents/RP-008280-DS-2-hardware-design-with-rp2350.pdf https://pip-assets.raspberrypi.com/categories/1214-rp2350/do...
[1]: https://jlcpcb.com/blog/how-to-design-layout-with-rp2350 https://jlcpcb.com/blog/how-to-design-layout-with-rp2350
- genxy 9d agoYou have to be more specific about what you mean by design. The models are excellent and the netlist and the components along with tradeoffs.
- akiselev 9d agoDesign means PCB routing. A schematic is the PCB equivalent to a Mermaid diagram.
- poulpy123 9d agoThere is very little sources compared to software and with hardware you can't really afford too many errors