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Turn a plain English idea into a circuit board you can order
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Describe your device in plain English and siliXon takes it all the way to a routed, manufacturable PCB, built for anyone with an idea, not only engineers. In minutes. Rocky, our design agent, asks what it needs to know, then picks real, purchasable components, places them, draws the schematic and routes the copper. Edit in 2D and 3D, or just ask Rocky. Every board must pass engineering checks before it goes to manufacture, and the design files are yours.
PH · launched Oct 15, 2026 · 95 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: ai computer-aided design software · 100 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▲ +18% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Manufacturing
- Hardware & robotics
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Design Tools
- Hardware
- Artificial Intelligence
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Could you build this?
No Automatically generating production-grade, manufacturable PCB designs from natural language requires deep electrical engineering, component sourcing logic, and automated EDA routing.
What it would actually take: Requires an engine integrating EDA tools (like KiCad scripts or proprietary routing solvers), component databases (Octopart/LCSC APIs), electrical rule checking (ERC), design rule checking (DRC), and signal integrity algorithms. Building an agent capable of accurate schematic capture, pin mapping, power constraint validation, and multi-layer autorouting demands deep electrical and hardware engineering expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 31 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #3 of 32 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 313 days after the earliest competitor.
- Typmax · ph · 2026-11-13 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- WholeBoard · github · 2026-10-21 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Odem · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- I designed my own 3D printer motherboard · hn · 2025-12-06 · 127 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- PewCB · ph · 2026-09-22 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- designElectronics · ph · 2026-10-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- SHDL · hn · 2026-01-28 · 48 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Axal: Designing and Getting PCB's in China is Dead · yc · 2026-07-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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