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Schematics vs layout: where AI succeeds and struggles
From Diode · ≈52:17
“No one complains about the validity of the schematics. Everybody complains about the aspect, like the the visual elements of them.”
“You can have a correct schematic that looks bad, and people will perceive it as like poor craftsmanship.”
“And our bet is that this will just like keep expanding to the point that the the universal board that you can build is so vast that you can just do it all.”
What’s in it
- How AI generates and validates electronic schematics vs. layouts
- Why schematic correctness is easy but visual craftsmanship matters to humans
- The vision: AI stitching components into full board designs
Clip transcript
but, you know, if I was doing it, I would do it in XYZ way." The usual telltale sign of this behavior is in the routing. Like, the schematics, it's arguably more correct than what uh like the schematics are So, first of all, they are easier to verify. We have incredibly strong simulation harnesses that give uh optimization function to the model. This this is like a core part of what you need to do to validate a schematic is good. The other part is that schematics are largely uh they're they're a much simpler domain than like pure layout. The ability in which you can compose code is massively easier. Like, the tooling around electrical engineering has not evolved so that there are shared libraries of a lot of these things. People have tried, but there are a lot of like complicated gotchas that can be solved, but they're they're fairly hard on the schematic side. No one complains about the validity of the schematics. Everybody complains about the aspect, like the the visual elements of them. It's a very human thing. Like, people are very receptive to how good a schematic looks, even if it's correct. Like, you can have a correct schematic that looks bad, and people will perceive it as like poor craftsmanship. For example, the way I like to put it is that the universe of boards that we can tackle is always expanding. And today, like, you know, if you start from individual components, the librarian is great. And the librarian can also generate reference designs, which are like you can think about it as the minimum viable board that you can build around a single component. And now the models are starting to be so good that they can stitch them together and also build the layout. And our bet is that this will just like keep expanding to the point that the the universal board that you can build is so vast that you can just do it all.
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