| ▲ | dmitrygr 4 days ago | |
"We chose to base our System-on-Module (SOM) " Holy clickbait, batman! The hard parts were done for them! All the fast signals like DDR are on the SoM, designed by real humans who understand EE. To make it all even more of a lie, their design is basically a copy of the reference base-board for the SoM. "Boots on first attempt" well, duh! the SoM is self-contained. It boots all by itself as is... so no wonder that it boots. No EMC results either. Making things work is 10% of the work. Passing certs on unintended emissions and making it stable is the other 150%. | ||
| ▲ | homeless_engi 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
My reading of this is that they asked the system to redesign the PCB that was used in the i.MX 8M reference system-on-module. It looks like they take a parts list, a PCB shape, and a rough floorplan and pass that to their tool, which spits out a PCB design. https://www.quilter.ai/blog/preparing-an-ai-designed-compute... I could actually see myself using this tool, as someone who trained as an EE and still likes to tinker with electronics. It would be fun to just assemble a parts list and a rough layout and then receive a working electronic device a few weeks later with minimal work. | ||
| ▲ | rasz 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
They designed both SOC and IO boards. | ||