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AI is exceptionally good at RP2040/RP2350/ESP32-based boards, we've ordered ~15 unique designs, mostly RP2040-based that were designed and autorouted with AI us
by seveibar 18d ago
AI is exceptionally good at RP2040/RP2350/ESP32-based boards, we've ordered ~15 unique designs, mostly RP2040-based that were designed and autorouted with AI using tscircuit and usually OpenAI models.
Currently the major mistakes that AI makes: 1) Improperly rotated connectors (backwards USB port) 2) Endless routing loops for complex boards 3) Really huge/unreadable single page schematics
I'm extremely bullish on AI for PCB design, but there is a huge, huge tooling gap. We basically need to soup up all our collective design rule checks so that AI can work in corrective loops. It needs to check for things like "opamp schematic layout conventional" and "trace width closely matches reference design for chip". One thing that makes me super excited is supply-chain resiliency when chip/subcircuit-swapping becomes super easy
- smart_asslop 17d ago[flagged]
- cushychicken 17d agoI’ve found that codifying design rules as skills is a major help in this area.
- crote 17d agoThose are "reinvent the world" level of changes. We're talking about an industry where nothing is standardized, and you want to rely on highly formalized documentation!? I'm not exaggerating when I say that "which way is up" is an unsolved problem right now. Getting the industry to adopt a standardized manufacturing file format and standardized files describing things like footprints and pinouts would be a massive breakthrough. Let's start with that.
- seveibar 15d agoStandardization is extremely unlikely, chip manufacturers won't/haven't made a major effort here and having spoken with some, they don't want to. It is much easier and more feasible at this point to do automated visual analysis against the footprint and discovered photos from the internet