Quilter

Quilter automates printed circuit board layout with physics driven AI. It takes a schematic, generates many candidate boards, validates every trace against physics and returns fabrication ready designs in hours rather than the weeks a manual placement and routing pass normally takes. Rather than following a fixed set of encoded design rules, the system uses reinforcement learning to actively explore thousands of generated candidate boards, and engineers compare the results and select one. The vendor targets four board types in particular: test fixtures and harnesses, IC evaluation boards, design validation boards, and backplane and interconnect boards, with claims that board bring up drops from four weeks or more to under a day and that backplane work falls from 30 days to under 24 hours. First candidates often appear within the first hour. It is aimed at electrical engineers, PCB designers and research and development managers working in semiconductors, robotics, consumer electronics and aerospace and defense. Documentation, a changelog and a user community sit alongside the product. Pricing is charged per project rather than per seat. There are no annual licenses; capacity is bought when there are projects to run and nothing is owed when there are not. The cost of each board is determined by its design pin count, meaning the number of unrouted pins at the time the board is uploaded. Specific rates are not published on the pricing page, which routes to a sales conversation, and the company advertises separate free and startup tracks without stating their terms. Quilter publicizes a project it calls Speedrun, which it describes as the first computer designed by AI.