AI design of PCBs raises US$10 million for startup Quilter
Circuit board design startup Quilter Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.) has raised US$10 million to help it automate circuit board design.
It is not yet clear whether the company’s business model will be a licensible EDA software or a service. For now, while the software tool is in beta, it can be used for free, the company states.
The funding round was led by Benchmark. Quilter claims that it is developing a form of learning AI that will become better at designing PCBs over time.
The company was founded in 2019 by Sergiy Nesterenko and employs 12 people who work remotely.
“Our goal is to build the equivalent of the software compiler for circuit boards,” said Nesterenko in statement placed on the company’s website.
The company reckons that full automation will provide a 10x speed up in hardware iteration. Fully automating PCB design will speed up the process from months to weeks or days, Nesterenko said. The technology will also find ways to reduce costs and increase the efficiency of boards.
It is not discussed how the software fares on digital designs versus analog or RF and microwave designs.
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www.quilter.ai
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