Hardware-Rich Development

Build Real Prototypes Fast and Often.

Product delays by even nine months can cost you up to 50% of projected revenue. The hard truth of hardware design: anyone still treating development like production will be left behind.

Speed is survival

Perfect, when delivered late, is worthless.

Treating development like production is the anchor sinking your innovation.

Stop building prototypes like you’re running a production floor. Every rapid cycle is a chance to spot risk before it becomes expensive.

The best hardware leaders out-iterate their competition into irrelevance.

Don’t let delays cost you your market. Controlled chaos beats rigid order when the market moves this fast.

Future

Late Is a Luxury You Can’t Afford

Tomorrow’s technology is already in motion; hesitate and you’re history.

Potential

Unlock Your Team's Potential

Crush a hundred bad ideas before lunch without touching your top talent.

Offload the Busy Work

Protect valuable time and reserve your expertise for the work that defines careers.

Meet Quilter:
It Just Does the Work.

Tomorrow’s technology is already in motion; hesitate and you’re history.

01
Hundreds of physics-perfect PCB layouts in hours.
Not an autorouter. Not a co-pilot. A full-fledged, done-for-you layout engine.
02
Weeks ahead of your competition’sfirst prototype.
Let machines explore the maybes so humans deliver the must.

Survival Isn’t a Workflow Choice

First-to-market means first to set the price, first to master the narrative.

Revenue
Faster iteration means faster launches, more product shots, earlier market entry, and the confidence to lead on features, pricing, and adoption.
Cost
Teams stuck in bottlenecks bleed engineering hours, outsource unnecessarily, and sacrifice agility.
Risk
When iteration is slow, failure is expensive. But when it's fast, failure is just feedback. You find flaws earlier, fix them faster, and build confidence before you commit.

Conversations With Industry Leaders

December 5, 2025
FPGA to AI: Ben on Curiosity, Integrity, and Building Better Boards
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Signals to Smarter Systems — Harshat on Math, AI Learning & Hardware Evolution
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Aerospace to AI: Boris on Curiosity and Craft
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November 26, 2025
From Silicon Valley to Startups: Dan Gudino on Curiosity and Circuitry
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November 24, 2025
From Geometry to Circuits: Chi-Han Peng on Seeing the Patterns Beneath It All
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November 14, 2025
From Nanometers to New Dimensions: Fei on Rediscovering the Thrill of Zero to One
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The Future of Electronics Is Yours to Shape

PCB design has challenged engineers for decades, and we're not claiming to have all the answers. But we've made real progress on specific types of boards, and we're learning more with every design.

Some will stay with the old way; others will lead the future of electronics. Which path will you take?

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If you want to push the boundaries of physics and AI alongside industry engineers and top ML researchers, explore open roles and help us build the future of electronics.

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If you’re ready to be a pioneer, to take the lead, embrace the risks, and reap the rewards, get a free demo and experience physics‑driven design before the rest of the world.

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Test Fixtures & Harnesses

Shave 4–6 weeks off board bring-up

IC Evaluation Boards

Cuts layout cycles from weeks to hours; enables rapid, fabrication-ready design iteration

Design Validation Boards

Shrinks validation cycles from months to days

Backplane & Interconnect Boards

From 30+ days to under 24 hours

By Industry

Semiconductors

Bring-up ready in a single workday (first candidates often appear within the first hour).

Robotics

Compress board bring-up from 4 weeks to under 1 day

Consumer Electronics

Boards ready in a single workday (first candidates often appear within the first hour)

Aerospace & defense

Faster board bring-up for validation and TRR

By Role

R&D managers

Accelerate board bring-up

PCB Designers

Full fab-ready designs in under 4 hours

Electrical engineers

Schematic to fab-ready in under 4 hours

Hardware-Rich Development

Stephen Newberry and the Discipline of Signal Integrity

FPGA to AI: Ben on Curiosity, Integrity, and Building Better Boards

Signals to Smarter Systems — Harshat on Math, AI Learning & Hardware Evolution

Aerospace to AI: Boris on Curiosity and Craft

From Silicon Valley to Startups: Dan Gudino on Curiosity and Circuitry

From Geometry to Circuits: Chi-Han Peng on Seeing the Patterns Beneath It All

From Nanometers to New Dimensions: Fei on Rediscovering the Thrill of Zero to One

From CAD Automation to Circuit Comprehension: Jarvis Autey on Learning What Machines Can’t Yet Know

From Rockets to Rapid Iteration: Sam on Purposeful Engineering

Staying Under Dunbar’s Number: Nick Faughey on Infrastructure, Agility, and the Joy of Building

From Research to Routing: Fayaz Rahman on Learning Fast and Building Smarter Systems

ML OPs Engineers | Open Source Roots, Hardware Frontiers, and Fariz Rahman

Beyond Parity: Geometry in AI and Superhuman Engineering

Lessons on Power Integrity from Scott Witcher

Curiosity in Power Electronics: Reflections with Jovana Plavšić

From GaN to Magnetics: How Jovana Plavšić Builds Hardware with Curiosity and Precision

Scott Witcher on Power Integrity, Systems Thinking, and Humble Leadership

Technical Leadership Skills and Meditations: What It Means to Truly Build with Derrek Cooper

Lasers, Electrons, and the Courage to Build the Impossible

Aircraft Systems Engineering Beyond the Review: Human Chemistry, and the Quiet Craft of Good Engineering

What is a Technical Leader? Derrek Cooper's Answer

Björn Manuel Hegelich on Dangerous Lasers, the Art of Letting Go, and Building the Next Collider by Hand

Carol Erikson on Systems Thinking, Technical Leadership, and Building Teams That Actually Work

The Hidden Hero of Hardware: Test Engineering and Paul McDonald

Design for Reliability, Design for Manufacturability: Building Smarter Test Systems

Design with Your Hands, Lead with Your Eyes — Nancy Smith and the Grounded Future of PCB Design

On T-Shaped Engineers and Hardware Development: Transparency and the Generalist Path

The Joy is the Job: Nancy Smith on Crafting Beautiful Hardware, One PCB at a Time

Transparency, T-Shaped Engineers, and FPGAs: Interview with Jami Friedman

Just Ship It: Lessons in Grit, Test, and Team from Paul Robinson’s Hardware Odyssey

What Hardware Teaches You About Leadership and Letting Go with Paul Robinson

Bet Big, Break Rules — A Fireside with Sergiy Nesterenko

Rethinking Hardware: Agile Lessons from Dr. Lucas Fraile

Engineering Is an Art: Hardware Interview with Carolina Hubbard

The Truth About Engineering: We’re All Just Trying Not to Redesign the Whole Thing Again

Design for Quality: Dr. Lucas Fraile’s Insights