Quilter

Quilter is a revolutionary AI-powered software designed to automate the complex and time-consuming process of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) layout. Unlike traditional tools that merely assist engineers, Quilter executes the entire layout process, reducing turnaround times from weeks to mere hours. It leverages a sophisticated physics-based engine and reinforcement learning, enabling it to generate highly optimized and manufacturable designs without training on any human or customer data. This approach not only accelerates innovation but also guarantees the absolute security of your intellectual property. Quilter is built for modern engineering teams in fast-paced sectors like aerospace, defense, robotics, and advanced R&D, where speed and iteration are critical competitive advantages.

How to use Quilter

The workflow is designed for simplicity and efficiency, allowing engineers to get results with a minimal learning curve. Most users can submit their first board in under 10 minutes.

1. Upload Your Design: Instead of the traditional process of emailing schematics to a layout designer, you simply upload your design files directly to the Quilter platform. You have the flexibility to pre-place critical components or connectors, and Quilter will handle the rest.
2. AI-Powered Layout Generation: Once uploaded, Quilter's physics-driven engine gets to work. It simulates real-world design constraints and uses reinforcement learning to generate dozens of layout options in parallel. It simultaneously considers multiple layer stackups and fabrication rule sets, giving you flexibility without being locked into a single manufacturer.
3. Review and Select: In a matter of hours, you receive a variety of complete, placed, and routed PCB designs. You can review these options, comparing them based on manufacturability, cost, and physical performance, and select the one that best fits your project's needs.
4. Download Fab-Ready Files: After selecting the optimal layout, you can download the native design files. These files are fully compatible with your existing PCB design environment (e.g., Altium, KiCad), allowing you to run final DRC/DFM checks before sending them directly to your chosen fabrication house.

Core Features of Quilter

• Fully Automated Placement and Routing: A complete layout engine that handles both component placement and trace routing without manual intervention, scripting, or templates.
• Physics-Based Reinforcement Learning: The AI learns from physics simulations, not by imitating human layouts or using customer data. This results in designs that are optimized for performance and reliability.
• Parallel Design Exploration: Generates multiple layout solutions for various stackups and manufacturing rules simultaneously, allowing for rapid exploration of the design space.
• Seamless Workflow Integration: Acts as a drop-in solution that works with your existing PCB design tools, eliminating the need for retraining or rewriting workflows.
• Enterprise-Grade Security: Offers multiple deployment options, including public cloud (AWS), private cloud, and on-premise, to meet strict security and compliance requirements (e.g., ITAR). All data is AES-256 encrypted, and your IP is never used for training.
• Rapid Iteration Engine: Specifically built to compress development cycles, making it ideal for creating evaluation boards, test harnesses, and validation builds.

Use Cases for Quilter

Quilter is a strategic tool for teams looking to accelerate their hardware development lifecycle.

• Rapid Prototyping: Quickly generate functional prototypes to test and validate new concepts, significantly shortening the learn-build-test cycle.
• Test and Validation Boards: Automate the creation of test fixtures, harnesses, and validation boards that are necessary for development but often become a bottleneck.
• R&D Acceleration: Empower R&D teams to experiment with more designs and ideas, fostering innovation by removing the layout delay.
• Resource Optimization: Free up senior PCB designers from routine, low-complexity tasks, allowing them to focus on high-value, complex system designs.
• Teams with Limited Layout Resources: Enable electrical engineers to get layouts done independently, without waiting for an outsourced or backlogged internal layout team.

Advantages of Quilter

Quilter provides a distinct competitive edge by fundamentally changing the hardware iteration process.

• Innovation Velocity: The primary advantage is speed. By compressing layout time, teams can test more, learn faster, and get to market quicker.
• Increased Engineering Independence: Reduces dependencies on specialized layout personnel, empowering engineers to control their own development cycles.
• Cost-Effective Scalability: The usage-based pricing model (based on pin count, not seats) ensures that costs are aligned with project complexity and value, not headcount.
• Unyielding IP Protection: The commitment to not training on customer data, combined with secure deployment options, provides peace of mind for sensitive projects.
• Optimized for Function, Not Form: Quilter's layouts are optimized for physics and manufacturability, ensuring they pass checks and perform reliably, even if they look different from hand-routed boards.

Pricing and Plans

Quilter's pricing is designed to be flexible and value-driven, with no seat licenses.

• Free Tier: Individuals, academic users, and those working on non-commercial projects can use Quilter for free. You can run unlimited iterations and only pay if you need to use a design for a commercial project.
• Professional Plan (Usage-Based): For professional teams, the model is 'pay-as-you-go'. You can run unlimited iterations for free. Charges are only incurred when you download a fab-ready, native design file. The cost is metered by the pin count of the downloaded design, making it scalable with project complexity. This plan allows for unlimited teammates.
• Enterprise Solutions: For organizations with stringent security or support needs, Quilter offers private cloud or fully on-premise deployments, along with dedicated technical support, onboarding, and regular business reviews.