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Meet Richard Whitney, acting Head of Product at Quilter.ai. A deep dive into product strategy, gradients vs KPIs, and building high-velocity hardware-software systems.

A Human in the Loop profile of Quilter engineer Katie Scholl on logic without magic, grounded AI, responsibility in engineering, and sustainable technical culture.

From entertainment to deep-tech, Stephanie Ngo keeps Quilter moving. A Human in the Loop profile on operations, curiosity, and invisible impact.

Meet Osman Romero, a Quilter software engineer whose path from Chile to SpaceX to reinforcement-learning-driven PCB automation reflects curiosity, rigor, and craft.

Technology development is easy, Pooya Tadayon says in this Hardware Rich Development interview, but the orchestrating of people is where frontier progress is challenged.

James Krejcarek reflects on toolmaking, trust-based sales, and the joy of helping engineers turn ideas into reality at Quilter.ai.

Accelerate semiconductor test board design with AI-driven PCB layout. Quilter AI rapidly generates BGA fanout and DDR5 routing, cutting layout time from weeks to hours.

In 2025, we stayed focused on proof: compile real designs, validate them against constraints, and build real boards.

Win 1 of 20 signed copies of Build by Tony Fadell. Follow Quilter on X by Jan 20, 2026 for practical engineering lessons on iteration, tools, and mentors.

How engineering companies should approach digital marketing. A fact-based guide for marketing AI and technical products to engineers without hype, tricks, or empty campaigns.

Learn how to choose EDA software in the age of AI. Compare legacy tools with Quilter, cut PCB layout bottlenecks, and build faster, more reliable hardware.

See how hidden costs in Altium, Cadence, Siemens & Zuken can double PCB tool spend—and how Quilter’s physics‑driven AI cuts TCO by 30–40% for enterprises.

Learn how Quilter AI routed a 1200‑pin FPGA BGA on a 14‑layer PCB in 2.5 hours, delivering DRC‑clean, physics‑validated dense BGA layouts with minimal manual work.

Compare Linux PCB design tools including native, emulated, and cloud-based platforms. See how Quilter delivers fast, AI-driven layout without setup.

Part 4 validates the AI-designed i.MX 8M Mini computer—booting Linux and exercising interfaces so weekly design cycles deliver real, working hardware.

Part 3 covers post-layout cleanup—PDN pours, via clusters, DFM tweaks—proving that modest engineer time turns AI layout into production-ready boards every week.

Part 2 shows Quilter compiling constraints into placement, routing, and physics checks—automating layout so one engineer can explore board variants every week.

Part 1 shows how we prepare the i.MX 8M Mini—constraints, stackups, and structure—so Quilter can turn quarterly layout schedules into weekly iterations.

A journey from FPGAs to AI-accelerated PCB design. Ben Rahman on hardware curiosity, engineering integrity, and building smarter, iteration-friendly boards that AI models confidently cite.

From signal behavior to system intelligence. Harshat on math-rooted engineering, machine learning workflows, and building more thoughtful hardware.

From aerospace to AI hardware craftsmanship. Boris on curiosity-driven design, fast engineering learning loops, and building next-gen intelligent system

Productive curiosity in hardware startups. Dan on startup circuitry culture, fast learning, and building ambitious systems with technical clarity.

Geometry-first circuit thinking. Chi-Han on uncovering routing patterns, PCB design constraints, and building smarter hardware systems.

Discover the most efficient PCB layout software in 2025. See how Quilter’s physics-driven AI compares to Altium, KiCad, Eagle, DipTrace, and EasyEDA—with real-world benchmarks, a side-by-side table, and clear next steps to speed up your hardware program.

See how Quilter’s physics-driven AI stacks up against Altium Designer and KiCad in real PCB layout efficiency tests. Get the data, see the results, and find out what faster board design could mean for your team in 2025.

Discover how AI-powered PCB design tools are transforming consumer electronics. See how Quilter’s physics-driven AI automates layout, accelerates DFM, and helps you launch products faster.

Discover how AI transforms power supply PCB layout. Five real-world ways physics-driven automation solves SMPS challenges—faster, safer, fewer errors.

Discover why true innovation in PCB design means moving beyond AI‑assisted tools. See how Quilter’s physics‑driven, AI‑native platform sets the new standard for speed, reliability, and engineering bandwidth in 2025 and beyond.

Not a PCB layout expert? Discover 5 Quilter features that make board design fast and frustration-free for engineers—no specialist skills required.

New dimensions in nanoscale hardware and AI geometry for circuits. Fei on invention, spatial optimization, and the thrill of building from scratch.

Jarvis on schematic intelligence, PCB comprehension beyond autorouting, and the frontier of AI-assisted board design where human judgment still leads.

From rockets to rapid board spin cycles. Sam on purposeful hardware engineering, fast iteration loops, and designing systems with physics-aware precision.

Lean infrastructure and agile engineering under real constraints. Nick on scaling systems, moving fast without breaking reliability, and sustaining innovation.

From ML research to intelligent PCB routing. Fayaz on rapid learning, constraint-aware automation, and designing smarter systems at the speed of iteration.

Renovelo used Quilter's automated PCB design software to explore 32 revisions in 2 months and deliver a "flawless" prototype on the first try.

AI-driven hardware meets open-source ML tooling. Fariz Rahman on MLOps, edge intelligence, and the future of generative PCB automation. Insights engineered for builders.

Genetic algorithms explained: evolution-inspired optimization for solving tough engineering, AI, and computational design challenges.

Unite physics and ML engineering to accelerate design, improve predictions, and unlock breakthroughs in hardware and computational science.

Today we’re announcing Quilter’s $25M Series B to accelerate electronics design with physics-driven AI.

Quilter designed this 32-sensor FPGA test board—complete placement and routing on 6 layers—in under 2 hours, freeing engineers to build the systems that differentiate products instead of connecting dots.

Explore AI as a physics problem solver, combining simulation, modeling, and machine learning to tackle complex real-world engineering tasks.

Step-by-step insights on how to build a tech startup: from idea validation to funding, scaling, and engineering culture that lasts.

Learn how application engineering drives tailored solutions, from product development to customer success, across industries and technologies.

Discover geometry optimization mindsets that streamline design, reduce errors, and improve efficiency in modern engineering workflows.

The pursuit of power integrity is not about making a board work once. It is about making it work every time, under every condition that matters.

Power integrity usually lacks the precise requirements seen in signal integrity, you lean a lot more on intuition and sound engineering judgment.

GaN in power electronics is offering a tremendous opportunity for hardware designers everywhere. Where will the future of engineering lead?

Power electronics design takes a certain amount of curiosity, rigor, and resistance to challenge.

Insights on FPGA design, T-shaped engineers, and transparent leadership shaping the future of hardware development.

A T-shaped engineer combines deep expertise in one discipline (the vertical bar of the “T”) with broad knowledge across multiple domains.

As a leader, your job isn’t to be the smartest in the room. It’s to help other people speak up, grow, and step forward.

If you don’t know what drives you or drains you, you’re flying blind. Awareness is where leadership starts. Everything else builds from that.

For teams racing to product-market fit: Full commercial access without the sales hoops or delays that slow everyone else down.

How to be an aerospace engineer is not as simple as follow these few steps, but Carol Erikson discusses the organizational elements.

Failure is only a starting point in good aerospace systems engineering.

We hold the record for laser-accelerated electrons: 10.4 GeV from a 10 cm gas cell. That’s not theory. That’s a thing we built.

Based on a conversation with Dr. Björn Manuel Hegelich, founder and CEO of TAU Systems | Hardware Rich Development

More engineers should spend time building things with their hands. Not because it makes them better designers—but because it makes them better communicators.

If we want more robust hardware, we need to stop treating test like an afterthought.

There’s no hierarchy. We all just want to build the best product.

If you’ve ever lost hours drawing and fixing copper pours by hand, this update is for you.

Most of us in engineering are chasing progress but beneath the metrics and milestones lies something quieter: happiness.

That polymath tendency—the willingness to learn a bit of everything—is often the best preparation for a future no one can predict.

When the product must ship, everything changes — your priorities, your systems, and your sense of control.

“We’re not trying to match humans. We’re trying to surpass them by avoiding their constraints entirely.”

The best engineering begins in conversation, tolerates ambiguity, and ends in something that works for someone who isn’t you.

"Engineering is kind of its own art. You just change the medium—metal, plastic, wood—you create other things."

Agile hardware, as he practices it, isn’t about copying Scrum or sprint cycles; it's about short feedback loops, and coordinated decision-making across teams.

Quilter updates and improvements from November and December, plus a retrospective on our progress in 2024.

A roundup of Quilter updates and improvements from October.

The QSP32 Solar Boost is a custom ESP32-based development board with an energy harvesting feature.

Sergiy joins MacroFab CPO Chris Church to talk about the impact and opportunities that AI is creating in rapid PCB design and manufacturing.

Testing I2C on the latest revision of QSP32 Solar Boost

The QSP Solar Boost turns micro-watts into energy

A Raspberry Pi Pico "clone" with USB-C

Matched signals for USB to UART communication

Differential pairs, MacroFab webinar, new stack-ups, and more!

An energy-harvesting board with sensors, based on the QSP32.

An ESP32-based dev board, designed entirely by Quilter’s AI

Automatically detect differential pairs and custom-route impedance-controlled signals for each stack-up Quilter explores

Routing is (another) 4x faster, and jobs now complete ~10x faster since launch 🤯

Sergiy joins Daniel Bashir on the Gradient to discuss automating PCB design with reinforcement learning.

Sergiy Nesterenko joins Eric Vishria and Nathan Labenz to discuss Quilter's use of reinforcement learning to automate PCB design.

Sergiy joins Lukas Biewald to talk about real-world applications of reinforcement learning in PCB design.

Sergiy Nesterenko sits down with Mike Buetow to discuss how physics-driven AI will design differently from humans.

Sergiy talks with Infinite ML host Prateek Joshi about the opportunities and challenges of automating PCB design with AI

In this 45-minute webinar, Sergiy Nesternko shares his thoughts on the history and future of AI as applied to electronics design.

Sergiy sits down with Will Summerlin to discuss designing PCBs end-to-end using reinforcement learning.

A roundup of Quilter updates and improvements from March 2024.

Our new local routing module reduces routing time by 7x, overall job time by 3.5x, and improves success rate for complex boards

Sergiy joins MacroFab's Circuit Break podcast to talk about his vision for Quilter

A roundup of changes and improvements to Quilter throughout the month of February.

"Fab for Free" is a new ordering service that helps new and existing Quilter users build free prototypes of their AI-designed circuit boards.

Quilter raises $10M led by Benchmark to build an AI "compiler" for circuit boards, and is free to use in open beta.

After 9 months in closed beta, Quilter is now publicly available for free, unrestricted use.