DHaldane

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by DHaldane 4y ago
It's totally valid as a netlist for PCB schematics. Some folks have crammed PCB components through a pure verilog tool chain. But it turns out that 'a standard way to type out a netlist' is not the main thing an electrical de
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by DHaldane 4y ago
I think that's definitely the future - the framework laptop and the steam deck is proving this out a bit. Hopefully we can get more and more customization on these open(ish) platforms.
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Jitx (YC S18) is hiring senior developers to automate circuit board design(jobs.lever.co)
1 points by DHaldane 5y ago
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Jitx (YC S18) is hiring senior developers to automate circuit board design(jobs.lever.co)
1 points by DHaldane 5y ago
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Jitx (YC S18) is hiring software engineers to automate circuit board design(jitx.com)
1 points by DHaldane 5y ago
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Jitx (YC S18) is hiring to automate circuit board design(jitx.com)
1 points by DHaldane 5y ago
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Jitx (YC S18) is hiring to automate circuit board design(jobs.lever.co)
1 points by DHaldane 5y ago
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by DHaldane 6y ago
- Some features (like the part solver) use some cloud services that you need to be on the internet to use. Most of the software runs on your local machine - Running the same generator twice will produce the same design each time (but the de
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by DHaldane 6y ago
What would your top pick for a front end language be?
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by DHaldane 6y ago
Thanks!
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by DHaldane 6y ago
Our customers are electrical engineers -- electrical engineers on small teams that need to move faster with fewer errors, all the way up to senior EEs with a few decades of experience who want to automate design validation to ensure consist
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by DHaldane 6y ago
We can do both automated and programmatic layout. So you can add in hard placement constraints for location critical parts, then leave the rest to the optimization engine.
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by DHaldane 6y ago
This is on the roadmap - we're big believers in automated design validation and we are certainly not stopping with schematic-level checks.
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by DHaldane 6y ago
Hello - I'm one of the co-founders. Solid analysis! I'd say that we're better at building tools than websites so I'll add some extra information here. 1. Text based netlists are ok for digital heavy circuits like you sai
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by DHaldane 6y ago
This is still true for all off the shelf autorouters.
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by DHaldane 6y ago
Great to see this project go public! Seems pretty good if your requirements fit inside the spec. $949 is a decent chunk of change, but it is half of what the very similar Geppetto service costs and Sparkfun seems willing to also sell you th
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by DHaldane 6y ago
They just wrapped up Phase 1 of IDEA and POSH; programs that were explicitly trying to bring FOSS to hardware. There are now open-source end-to-end automated flows for RTL to GDS like OpenRoad. JITX (YCS18) was funded under IDEA to automate
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by DHaldane 6y ago
I don't know that hardware is inherently more complex than software. The issue I see in hardware is that all complexity is handled manually by humans. Historically there has been very little capacity in EDA tools for the software-like
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JITX is hiring an infrastructure engineer to automate circuit board design(jitx.com)
1 points by DHaldane 7y ago
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by DHaldane 7y ago
Good point and nice estimation! Measured bits/spike (e.g. in cricket sensory neurons) tops out at 3.2 bits/spike [1]. Most sensory neurons across all species top out at ~300 bits/second. So if we assume a similar bit rate for
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JITX is hiring an algorithmic software engineer
1 points by DHaldane 8y ago
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by DHaldane 8y ago
JITX | Algorithmics Software Engineer | Berkeley | Full-Time | www.jitx.com The vision of JITX (YCS18) is to fully automate hardware design to advance science and the welfare of humanity. Our first step is to automate circuit board design.
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by DHaldane 8y ago
Curiosity is always good, and thanks for the compliments. Responses to your questions in order: - We follow DFM/DFX very well. It's a strength of an automated system that you can make strong guarantees on the designs that come out
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by DHaldane 8y ago
Sorry, should have addressed that directly. We haven't run a job with memory routing through the tool. Your point about DRAM is well taken, and we'll hopefully have a job justifying that bring-up soon.
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by DHaldane 8y ago
This automates what you would normally do in KiCAD (and more). We export to KiCAD, because it's a convenient way to view and edit the design.
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by DHaldane 8y ago
The autorouter we use is on par with what you find in Altium. The one part that makes it actually work where most autorouters breakdown is the guidance and handholding our software can do automatically. Yes it allows placements for whatever
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by DHaldane 8y ago
DDR4 is an example case that's just not well automated yet. We've got the road map sketched out but it hasn't been a priority. We're optimizing our development for features that make us immediately more productive at des
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by DHaldane 8y ago
I wonder how future engineers work will look like Here's hoping it looks like software development. I want engineers to capture their expertise in code so that everyone will be able to benefit.
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by DHaldane 8y ago
Thanks! Yeah, we've been designing fixtures like that and have built some specialized automation to do so. The fixture design can also be co-generated when we design a PCB in our system.
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by DHaldane 8y ago
Yeah cordwood boards. Love it. Believe it or not, this fixture is actually advanced for the testing industry. Most test fixture houses prefer to individually wire-wrap each pogo pin instead of using a PCB for connectivity. You end up with t

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