it would propably help thousands of ppl ngl
Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
fair critique but copperhead works as a feedback loop: design, verify, revise and repeat. closer to an engineering control loop than waterfall with an agent on top :)
Is it doing any circuit simulation or anything?
we are building tool plane integrations around the same. stay tuned!
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
fair critique but copperhead works as a feedback loop: design, verify, revise and repeat. closer to an engineering control loop than waterfall with an agent on top :)
When it gets to the end of the design loops, can it run simulations and tests, or is that out of scope i.e., for another product? (I didn't notice testing on a very quick peruse, but that doesn't mean I didn't simply miss it)
we are building tool plane integrations around the same. stay tuned!
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#44"hardware as fast as software". Please no, lol. I've imagined a chip running as slow as python.
haha nice catch but this is about development speed
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#45The space is definitely heating up. Flux.ai being the incumbent Silixon based out of the UK have been showing demos Quilter and DeepPCB for layout The recent OpenAI demo... I went the other way and pre-designed sub circuits with a set of rules that allows simple merge assembly, unfortunately I didn't have the time or budget to continue with it, but I took the constrained approach as with hardware, things can't be 99%…
> The one thing I will say, is that my experience of hardware engineers is very gatekeepy. Stay away from Reddit and forums if you want to see where the open minded people are looking. There are a lot of communities where EEs are experimenting with newer technologies and sharing their results, with realistic appraisals of what can be done. You also need to understand the history of autorouting technology for PCBs. Au…
> Stay away from Reddit and forums if you want to see where the open minded people are looking. There are a lot of communities where EEs are experimenting with newer technologies and sharing their results, with realistic appraisals of what can be done.
Where are these communities?
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
copperhead isn't just a wrapper around claude or gpt. it combines model intelligence with its own hardware IR, deterministic engines and continuous verification.
User just couldn't care less. Do it have extra feature? Speed? Ease of use?
we have the wrapper orchestrator + additional specialized tools. so yeah we are better than just wrappers.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The one thing I will say, is that my experience of hardware engineers is very gatekeepy. Stay away from Reddit and forums if you want to see where the open minded people are looking. There are a lot of communities where EEs are experimenting with newer technologies and sharing their results, with realistic appraisals of what can be done. You also need to understand the history of autorouting technology for PCBs. Au…
NP-hard problems are still NP-hard even with magical LLM pixie sprinkles. =3
Magical LLM pixie sprinkles ... is that where magic smoke comes from?
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The one thing I will say, is that my experience of hardware engineers is very gatekeepy. Stay away from Reddit and forums if you want to see where the open minded people are looking. There are a lot of communities where EEs are experimenting with newer technologies and sharing their results, with realistic appraisals of what can be done. You also need to understand the history of autorouting technology for PCBs. Au…
NP-hard problems are still NP-hard even with magical LLM pixie sprinkles. =3
If the magic LLM pixie sprinkles can brute force their way to a solution using viable heuristics and their training data, I will use them.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
NP-hard problems are still NP-hard even with magical LLM pixie sprinkles. =3
Magical LLM pixie sprinkles ... is that where magic smoke comes from?
Magic smoke is important, as it indicates a design parameter was exceeded.
I often recommend folks get a mini thermal camera for their phone... as inspecting for issues in electrical, hydraulic, or mechanical systems gets a fair bit easier/safer. =3
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#50Might be a better website if it wasn't all clearly AI-copy. "Nothing commits without its gate."
the website isn't the product. try copperhead and judge the engineering :)
The website is the marketing for the product, most people see that first, and they wont go further if your front door is festooned with goofball stuff.