"From architecture to printed circuit board (PCB) schematic in 60 seconds." "Are you ready to meet the world's first deterministic AI that helps electronic teams go from architecture to schematic in 60 seconds? We're talking about algorithmic component selection and schematic generation technology that optimizes billions of component combinations, thereby allowing you to avoid datasheet doom-scrolling, reduce schematic errors, and design for supply chain resilience in minutes. What's not to love?"
"Datasheet doom-scrolling", lol. That's a good one. I'm a software engineer, not a hardware engineer, but I can picture hardware engineers doing that.
Anyway, the product is called ACE, which stands for Assistant to Circuit Engineers. It's from a company called Circuit Mind.
"There are two key items 'under the hood,' as it were. First, we have COMMODORE, which is a library of digital twins for components. Anything you can read in a data sheet is captured as part of the digital model. Next, we have Assistant to Circuit Engineers (ACE). This little scamp looks at your system-level block diagram, accesses any appropriate digital twins, considers, compares, and contrasts billions of component combinations, and outputs a schematic that meets your design goals and tradeoffs. Just to add a great big dollop of metaphorical cream on top of the allegorical cake, ACE also generates a BOM and supply chain analysis, area analysis, power and regulator analysis, and it performs detailed verification checks. The schematic can subsequently be fed to a PCB layout tool from the vendor of your choice."
"ACE allows an engineer to input their requirements as a functional block diagram, specify their detailed design intent on each block, and, with a single click, generate cost-effective, power efficient, small form factor schematic and BoM options in 60 seconds. It also optimizes for lifecycle status, supply chain resilience, preferred manufacturers, and more."
"The platform is primarily for professional electronic engineers in any stage of their career. The average user of the platform has 7 years of experience."
"Does Circuit Mind use AI?" "Our circuit design generation uses deterministic algorithms. These algorithms are built on solid fundamental circuit design principles crafted to operate alongside an engineer as a trustworthy source of options, results, and outcomes. No statistical guesses and no hallucinations. However, in order to create our electronic component digital twin models, we do use machine learning (ML) and large language model (LLM) algorithms with rigorous human supervision to ensure accuracy."
