Quilter

Quilter is physics-driven AI that automates PCB placement and routing — the layout work that usually sits on a designer's backlog for weeks. You prepare the design in your own ECAD tool (schematic, board outline, fixed components), upload it, and the engine uses reinforcement learning to explore thousands of generated candidate boards, then runs physics validation on every trace it draws. First candidates often land within the first hour; the vendor says full fab-ready designs come back in under four hours, and its own comparison puts 428 hours of quoted manual layout against 38.5 hours of human cleanup with Quilter. It fits semiconductor, robotics, consumer electronics, and aerospace/defense teams that already have layout talent and want it pointed at the interesting work. Output is native to Altium, Cadence Allegro, Siemens Xpedition, and KiCad — no proprietary format — and every project includes unlimited iterations, parallel jobs (run a 4-layer and a 6-layer stackup overnight), 10% BOM flexibility, and guided onboarding with Quilter's engineers on your first board. Deployment is either Quilter's managed AWS (SOC 2 Type 2, isolated workspace) or self-hosted in your own cloud with data residency control. The workflow is deliberately unmagical: define design context (stackup, constraints, circuit intent), review candidates, tweak in your ECAD tool, resubmit. Most boards go through 2 to 5 cycles. You can also pre-route the hard parts — RF nets, BGA fan-outs, high-voltage sections — and those pins aren't charged, so the pricing follows what Quilter actually has to compile. Pricing is per project, keyed to the unrouted pin count at upload, not per seat and not an annual license. Against legacy auto-routers, which chase geometry alone, Quilter treats placement and routing as one problem; against hiring another PCB designer, it clears the backlog with the team you already have.