1/ Jeff designed a new product with Quilter
Jeff Reno is the Founder/Owner of Renovelo, which sells vehicle data logging and customization software. He used Quilter to design 32 different iterations of his new wireless OBD2 hardware product, ByteFlasher, in just a couple of months.
In the video below, Jeff sat down to talk with us about how Quilter helped him quickly generate new PCB designs, accelerate his time to market, and save valuable engineering time that he invested back into his business.
Read more about Jeff's story on our blog.
2/ A better way to add physics constraints
Quilter uses physics constraints to understand the most important requirements of your design, generate your PCB layout correctly, and grade the results of its work. We call this process of cataloging physics constraints in a design "circuit comprehension."
Our team is focused on rapidly expanding the number of physics constraints Quilter can support. Last month, we launched a new "Circuit Comprehension" UI and data model that makes it way faster for users to validate physics constraints, and for our engineering team to add support for new ones. It looks a lot like a spreadsheet.
Speaking of new constraints...
3/ Support for bypass capacitors and single-ended impedance controls
Earlier this month, we shipped preliminary support for two of our most commonly requested constraint types:
- Bypass capacitors
Quilter will automatically detect bypass capacitors in your design and figure out which component (and which pins) it's providing bypass for. Even simple designs tend to have dozens of bypass caps, so this feature is a big time saver. - Single-ended impedance controls
We followed up our launch of differential pairs in August with support for routing 50Ω impedance-controlled signals for routing RF, clock, and other high-speed digital signals.
Submit a new layout job in the Quilter app to give them a try!
The same Quilter-generated board, before and after 3D body support.
4/ Review Quilter-generated designs in 3D
Until this past month, Quilter placed and routed all components left outside the board outline but neglected to move the 3D representation of that component along with the rest of the footprint.
When viewed in 3D, most completed boards came out of Quilter looking like they'd not quite survived a car wreck.
This issue is now thankfully resolved, enabling designers everywhere to inspect their Quilter-generated layouts in all of their glorious, three-dimensional detail.
5/ Did you miss our webinar with MacroFab?
Quilter CEO Sergiy Nesterenko joined MacroFab CPO Chris Church to talk about the impact and opportunities that AI is creating in rapid PCB design and manufacturing.
Highlights from our recent webinar with MacroFab
The 5-minute supercut above features highlights from the discussion that covers topics like:
- How to enable AI with higher quality information from schematics
- Avoiding fabrication issues by "compiling" for multiple stack-ups in parallel
- What a fully automated future for hardware design might look like
- How companies can stay competitive by using AI to automate repetitive processes
- How fully automated AI solutions will consume the market from the "bottom-up"