A model checked his circuit board design against datasheets and saved him from a run of faulty boards

Frontier model reviewed his KiCad project, queried the AI vision for datasheet data, ran ngspice sims; $1-2 tokens saved $70-80 of bugged PCBs.

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How it works

Model reviews his KiCad project
Asks a vision model for datasheet values
Runs circuit simulations
Flags the bugs before fabrication

Why it’s worth knowing

The model read the datasheets itself and simulated the circuit before any board was made.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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