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Re:Melting KiCad by imtringued on Friday April 22, 2022 @06:31PM (#31129033)
I thought about how lazy I am and how difficult and a pain in the ass it is to design a schematic, how annoying it is to pick components and make sure they are properly rated. Routing is almost trivial except for some of the tricky high frequency and analog stuff.

I would prefer some sort of "Smart EDA" that automatically understands that I want to place a switch mode power supply with X constraints here, then automatically rates resistors, capacitors, inductors, mosfets, etc and automatically picks manufactured components from mouser. I could get behind that. If the software does that part I will gladly do component placement and routing myself!

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Re:Melting KiCad by rcxdude on Saturday April 23, 2022 @06:13AM (#31132821)
For switch mode PSUs (which are usualy the biggest pain to design), TI has a switch mode design tool (WEBENCH) that is mostly what you are describing (you specify your constraints and it gives you a selection of designs, usually cheapest, most efficient, and smallest). It'll even let you download a CAD file with the schematic and layout, though I'm not sure if using it is completely seamless. Of course, it'll only suggest TI parts...
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Re:Melting KiCad by rock_hard on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:07PM (#31129356)
We are working on exactly that at https://flux.ai
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Re:Melting KiCad by pwr-electronics on Saturday April 23, 2022 @01:49PM (#31136491)
Does the company have any in-house guidance on the application domain? Or is it all external feedback so far?
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Re:Melting KiCad by rock_hard on Sunday April 24, 2022 @03:42AM (#31142029)
Both in-house and external

Almost everybody here has worked in hardware before. Bunch of people from Apple, Siemens, NASA, and other places

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