Comment by amelius
6 months ago
What we need is a way to verify designs. Simulate the components, simulate RF parasitic effects, check the component voltage/current/power ratings ...
Maybe _then_ we can trust LLMs to design stuff for us.
6 months ago
What we need is a way to verify designs. Simulate the components, simulate RF parasitic effects, check the component voltage/current/power ratings ...
Maybe _then_ we can trust LLMs to design stuff for us.
That’s probably not going to happen. RF simulations are done using extremely expensive special-purpose software, and many components (including basically all digital and mixed-signal components) don’t have simulation models available at all. If they were available, the computing power required to simulate even a medium-size board over any reasonable time scale would be impossible. Simulation is a small-scale thing; you don’t do it for a whole board.
We have some of that already (design rule checks, spice simulations, etc). But in this case, the author did the layout and routing by hand not by AI, and those parts are _most_ of the work of making a PCB.