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Posted by iopapa 14 hours ago

Can AI design circuit boards yet?(eebench.org)
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CamperBob2 13 hours ago||
Works very well with EAGLE XML files, especially if you give it the EAGLE.DTD schema that CadSoft provides. Both .sch and .brd files can be extensively manipulated by Claude (and likely everybody else at this point.)
mschuster91 13 hours ago||
The submission reeks of LLM tells (especially the "UI" just looks straight like the usual Claude slop).

Anyway... the posed question reminds me of an anecdote I cannot find because Google is contaminated to hell and beyond, some researchers a decade ago let a machine-learning algorithm loose on an FPGA, and it "found" a design that worked but made no sense, because it exploited unique physical features of this specific chip.

Legend2440 13 hours ago|
Sounds like you're talking about the FPGA evolution experiments Adrian Thompson and others did in the 1990s: https://evolvablehardware.org/history.html
mschuster91 13 hours ago||
Indeed! With the keyword "evolving circuitry" I was able to find the blog post [1], with only one submission 8 years ago that barely got traction [2].

Thanks!

[1] https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18099226

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