Five PCB engineers and industry voices on where AI genuinely helps in hardware design, and where it still cannot replace a judgement call.
All five worth reading. ๐Get the full issue: https://t.co/Hw3nU9Qqpn
Have you been working on PCB layout? Letโs meet!
@HdwPioneers Max, June 10-11, ExCeL London, booth B13.
DeepPCB running live on real boards. No slides.
Free copies of Decisive Agents magazine, The PCB Issue, at the booth.
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Want your board directly routed with AI in KiCad?
DeepPCB just dropped a KiCad plugin.
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Upload a board to an autorouter and everything you know about the design disappears. The diff pairs. The power layers. The net types. Gone.
@alainsamjr Alain-Sam Cohen explains what it takes to solve that gap, and why it is harder than it sounds.
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30 years of PCB experience is invaluable. Itโs also your biggest single point of failure. A must-read on the demographic time bomb hitting hardware engineering. ๐
In 1970, a Moog synth cost as much as a car. PCBs shrunk it into something a working musician could actually buy.
Our new Decisive Agents issue follows that story through a century of electronic music, with Look Mum No Computer, the UK's Eurovision 2026 entry.
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โIt's quite easy to create a simulation that won't finish in your lifetime. So the first step is that AI still lets me run it thousands of times, but helps me figure out which is the best outcome. The next stage isโฆโ
๐ Jake Lourie interviews veteran PCB engineer Steve Gascoigne of Siemens EDA.
There are tiny artworks etched into the chips inside your devices. Signatures. In-jokes. Portraits. Hidden in silicon, visible only under a microscope.
Our new Decisive Agents issue tracks down the engineers who left them there, and the collectors hunting them. It also asks what happens to that tradition when AI does more of the layout.
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PCB East 2026, wrapped.
The pattern from the booth was the same one we see across tens of thousands of board designs: routing failures often trace to setup. Constraint capture is where the engineerโs time goes.
If we didn't get the chance to connect, it's not too late. ๐ [email protected].
Next: Hardware Pioneers Max, Excel London, Jun 10-11.
Inside Decisive Agents 03: when you upload a board to an autorouter, everything you know about the design disappears.
Diff pairs, keepouts, power domains.
Our piece is on closing that gap, plus five industry voices on where AI in EDA helps and where it falls short.
๐ Decisive Agents 03: The PCB Issue is out now! ๐
Join Decisive Agents in an exploration of how AI is redefining PCB design, and its accelerating impact on culture, sustainability, and much more.
๐Limited-edition copies of Decisive Agents 03: The PCB Issue launch today ๐
Get your copy at PCB East. Can't wait? See an extract from โFixing the Hardware Problemโ โ the story of how InstaDeep is applying reinforcement learning to some of industry's hardest optimisation problems.
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