# Updates **URL:** https://community.quilter.ai/c/updates/5.md [Latest](https://community.quilter.ai/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.quilter.ai/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.quilter.ai/tags.md) --- ## [About the Updates category](https://community.quilter.ai/t/about-the-updates-category/12)
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News and updates from the Quilter team --- ## [January newsletter: 2024 roundup edition](https://community.quilter.ai/t/january-newsletter-2024-roundup-edition/244)
**Author:** [@will](https://community.quilter.ai/u/will)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2026, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.quilter.ai/t/january-newsletter-2024-roundup-edition/244 "2026-01-06T19:00:09Z")
2024 was a fantastic year for Quilter! After announcing our $10M Series A fundraise from Benchmark and launching our open beta last February, Quilter in 2025 is: This is a companion discussion topic for the original en… --- ## [Schematic-informed placement](https://community.quilter.ai/t/schematic-informed-placement/60)
**Author:** [@will](https://community.quilter.ai/u/will)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://community.quilter.ai/t/schematic-informed-placement/60 "2025-02-05T20:43:45Z")
Schematic-informed placement Schematic-informed layout enables users to upload their schematic to group related components in layout. Quilter users can now upload their schematic along with their board file to Quilter… --- ## [QSP32 Solar Boost](https://community.quilter.ai/t/qsp32-solar-boost/242)
**Author:** [@will](https://community.quilter.ai/u/will)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://community.quilter.ai/t/qsp32-solar-boost/242 "2025-01-12T02:23:32Z")
Building on the success of the QSP32, we’ve decided to push Quilter’s generative PCB designer into new territory — an IoT board that has an energy harvesting feature. This is a companion discussion topic for the origin… --- ## [Qpico](https://community.quilter.ai/t/qpico/241)
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Quilter is home to several example designs based on open-source hardware, one of which is a “clone” of the popular Raspberry Pi Pico. We call this example “Qpico”. This is a companion discussion topic for the original … --- ## [Qpico](https://community.quilter.ai/t/qpico/240)
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Quilter is home to several example designs based on open-source hardware, one of which is a “clone” of the popular Raspberry Pi Pico. We call this example “Qpico”. This is a companion discussion topic for the original … --- ## [Quilter can now automatically place bypass capacitors](https://community.quilter.ai/t/quilter-can-now-automatically-place-bypass-capacitors/237)
**Author:** [@will](https://community.quilter.ai/u/will)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 11, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://community.quilter.ai/t/quilter-can-now-automatically-place-bypass-capacitors/237 "2024-12-11T15:48:00Z")
At Quilter, our mission is to help companies ship better PCBs faster by automating the tedious, time-consuming tasks that slow down product development. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at ht… --- ## [Introducing: Physics Rule Checks](https://community.quilter.ai/t/introducing-physics-rule-checks/234)
**Author:** [@will](https://community.quilter.ai/u/will)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2024, 7:37pm UTC](https://community.quilter.ai/t/introducing-physics-rule-checks/234 "2024-11-19T19:37:49Z")
Today, we’re pleased to announce the launch of Physics Rule Checks (PRCs) in Quilter. Physics Rule Checks work alongside traditional Design Rule Checks (DRCs) to ensure the layouts Quilter generates: This is a companio… --- ## [November newsletter](https://community.quilter.ai/t/november-newsletter/233)
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Jeff Reno is the Founder/Owner of Renovelo, which sells vehicle data logging and customization software. He used Quilter to design 32 different iterations of his new wireless OBD2 hardware product, ByteFlasher, in just a… --- ## [QSP32: An IoT Dev Board](https://community.quilter.ai/t/qsp32-an-iot-dev-board/211)
**Author:** [@will](https://community.quilter.ai/u/will)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 2, 2024, 1:36pm UTC](https://community.quilter.ai/t/qsp32-an-iot-dev-board/211 "2024-10-02T13:36:34Z")
Given the vast scope of electronics design, we've chosen to focus Quilter's near-term product roadmap on the types of boards our users most frequently create—high-density, high-speed digital designs. This is a companio… --- ## [Quilter can now route differential pairs!](https://community.quilter.ai/t/quilter-can-now-route-differential-pairs/183)
**Author:** [@will](https://community.quilter.ai/u/will)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2024, 9:45pm UTC](https://community.quilter.ai/t/quilter-can-now-route-differential-pairs/183 "2024-09-23T21:45:28Z")
We’re excited to announce that Quilter now supports differential pairs! Differential pairs are crucial in high-speed electronics design because they help ensure adequate signal performance for digital communication proto… --- ## [More speedups mean jobs now complete in \< 1 hour](https://community.quilter.ai/t/more-speedups-mean-jobs-now-complete-in-1-hour/141)
**Author:** [@will](https://community.quilter.ai/u/will)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.quilter.ai/t/more-speedups-mean-jobs-now-complete-in-1-hour/141 "2024-07-02T15:05:17Z")
Routing is (another) 4x faster, and jobs now complete ~10x faster since launch 🤯At Quilter, we spend a lot of time thinking about what electronics development will look like when PCBs that used to take days or weeks to d… --- ## [The Gradient: Automating Circuit Board Design](https://community.quilter.ai/t/the-gradient-automating-circuit-board-design/140)
**Author:** [@will](https://community.quilter.ai/u/will)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 24, 2024, 8:19pm UTC](https://community.quilter.ai/t/the-gradient-automating-circuit-board-design/140 "2024-06-24T20:19:57Z")
Sergiy joins Daniel Bashir on The Gradient, a podcast about AI and technology, to discuss automating PCB design with reinforcement learning, difficulties in PCB design automation, and dealing with skepticism. Check it ou… --- ## [Webinar: How AI is Shaping the Future of Electronics Design](https://community.quilter.ai/t/webinar-how-ai-is-shaping-the-future-of-electronics-design/139)
**Author:** [@will](https://community.quilter.ai/u/will)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2024, 5:26pm UTC](https://community.quilter.ai/t/webinar-how-ai-is-shaping-the-future-of-electronics-design/139 "2024-06-17T17:26:46Z")
In this 45-minute webinar, Sergiy Nesterenko (CEO of Quilter) shares his thoughts on this latest wave of disruptive technology and how it’s already beginning to shape the future of electronic design. Download the slides … --- ## [Autopilot: Automating Circuit Board Design Using Reinforcement Learning](https://community.quilter.ai/t/autopilot-automating-circuit-board-design-using-reinforcement-learning/138)
**Author:** [@will](https://community.quilter.ai/u/will)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2024, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.quilter.ai/t/autopilot-automating-circuit-board-design-using-reinforcement-learning/138 "2024-06-17T17:18:49Z")
In this episode from Autopilot with Will Summerlin, Sergiy Nesterenko, founder of Quilter (backed by Benchmark), discusses designing PCB circuitboards end-to-end using reinforcement learning. "Autopilot" host Will Summe… --- ## [Infinite ML: Designing Printed Circuit Boards with AI](https://community.quilter.ai/t/infinite-ml-designing-printed-circuit-boards-with-ai/137)
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Sergiy talks with Infinite ML host Prateek Joshi about the opportunities and challenges of automating PCB design with AI, what it actually means to design a "good" PCB, and the current innovations and long term opportuni… --- ## [Company Breakdowns: Quilter with Benchmark's Eric Vishria](https://community.quilter.ai/t/company-breakdowns-quilter-with-benchmarks-eric-vishria/136)
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Eric Vishria, General Partner at Benchmark, and Sergiy Nesterenko, Founder and CEO of Quilter, join Nathan Labenz to discuss Quilter's groundbreaking use of reinforcement learning to automate integrated circuit board des… --- ## [PCB Chat: Sergiy Nesterenko on AI-Driven PCB Design](https://community.quilter.ai/t/pcb-chat-sergiy-nesterenko-on-ai-driven-pcb-design/135)
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Sergiy Nesterenko (Quilter CEO) talks with PCB Chat host Mike Buetow about how AI-driven, physics-based PCB design can resolve and even violate some traditional design principles and still generate superior PCBs. --- ## [Gradient Dissent: AI in Electronics; Quilter's journey in PCB design](https://community.quilter.ai/t/gradient-dissent-ai-in-electronics-quilters-journey-in-pcb-design/134)
**Author:** [@will](https://community.quilter.ai/u/will)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2024, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.quilter.ai/t/gradient-dissent-ai-in-electronics-quilters-journey-in-pcb-design/134 "2024-06-17T16:32:09Z")
Our CEO Sergiy Nesterenko joins Lukas Biewald on the Weights & Biases podcast to talk about real-world applications of reinforcement learning in PCB design. 00:00 - Introduction to Gradient Dissent 00:45 - Meet Sergiy Ne… --- ## [Circuit Break: Tracing a Path for PCB Design Automation](https://community.quilter.ai/t/circuit-break-tracing-a-path-for-pcb-design-automation/133)
**Author:** [@will](https://community.quilter.ai/u/will)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2024, 4:18pm UTC](https://community.quilter.ai/t/circuit-break-tracing-a-path-for-pcb-design-automation/133 "2024-06-17T16:18:42Z")
Sergiy joins MacroFab's Circuit Break podcast to talk about his vision for Quilter, how integrating physics and simulation into an AI-driven design process will help engineers produce better designs, and discussion of th… --- ## [March newsletter](https://community.quilter.ai/t/march-newsletter/122)
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A roundup of Quilter updates and improvements from March 2024. 1/ Jobs now complete 3.5x fasterLast week, we shipped a rebuild of Quilter’s local routing submodule that accelerated routing by 7x and overall job t… --- ## [🏎️ Quilter's router is now 7x faster](https://community.quilter.ai/t/quilters-router-is-now-7x-faster/119)
**Author:** [@will](https://community.quilter.ai/u/will)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.quilter.ai/t/quilters-router-is-now-7x-faster/119 "2024-04-02T15:32:03Z")
Our new local routing module reduces routing time by 7x, overall job time by 3.5x, and improves success rate for complex boards At Quilter, our objective is to help companies build electronics 10x faster by fully auto… --- ## [February newsletter](https://community.quilter.ai/t/february-newsletter/110)
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A roundup of changes and improvements to Quilter throughout the month of February. 1/ Welcome to Quilter! 👋A couple of weeks ago, Quilter announced its Series A fundraise and launched our product in public open beta. … --- ## [Announcing our "Fab for Free" program](https://community.quilter.ai/t/announcing-our-fab-for-free-program/106)
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"Fab for Free" is a new ordering service that helps new and existing Quilter users build free prototypes of their AI-designed circuit boards. The last two weeks since our Series A and Open Beta announcements have been… --- ## [Vote for Quilter on Product Hunt](https://community.quilter.ai/t/vote-for-quilter-on-product-hunt/89)
**Author:** [@will](https://community.quilter.ai/u/will)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.quilter.ai/t/vote-for-quilter-on-product-hunt/89 "2024-02-13T16:28:06Z")
Vote for Quilter on Product Hunt It’s been an exciting morning for the Quilter team! Our Series A fundraise and open beta announcements have already received coverage in major publications like Reuters, and our suppor… --- ## [Quilter is now in open beta](https://community.quilter.ai/t/quilter-is-now-in-open-beta/86)
**Author:** [@will](https://community.quilter.ai/u/will)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2024, 1:01pm UTC](https://community.quilter.ai/t/quilter-is-now-in-open-beta/86 "2024-02-13T13:01:31Z")
After 9 months in closed beta, Quilter is now publicly available for free, unrestricted use. We're extremely excited to announce that as of today, Quilter has graduated from the "closed beta" that we kicked off last S… --- ## [Quilter raises $10M to build the "compiler" for circuit boards (now in open beta)](https://community.quilter.ai/t/quilter-raises-10m-to-build-the-compiler-for-circuit-boards-now-in-open-beta/85)
**Author:** [@will](https://community.quilter.ai/u/will)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2024, 12:59pm UTC](https://community.quilter.ai/t/quilter-raises-10m-to-build-the-compiler-for-circuit-boards-now-in-open-beta/85 "2024-02-13T12:59:26Z")
Quilter raises $10M led by Benchmark to build an AI "compiler" for circuit boards, and is free to use in open beta. TL;DRQuilter, an AI company building generative circuit board design software, announces its Series A… --- ## [Community forums](https://community.quilter.ai/t/community-forums/63)
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Community forums Quilter’s forums are a place to share, learn, and engage with the Quilter team. We’re excited to announce the launch of Quilter’s community forums, a new space for Quilter users to: Ask questions an… --- ## [Winter newsletter](https://community.quilter.ai/t/winter-newsletter/64)
**Author:** [@will](https://community.quilter.ai/u/will)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2024, 6:00am UTC](https://community.quilter.ai/t/winter-newsletter/64 "2024-02-05T06:00:00Z")
Winter newsletter A roundup of changes and improvements to Quilter throughout the late fall and early winter. 1/ Octilinear Traces In our last newsletter, we asked users to share theirfeedback on the visual app… --- ## [A brand new Quilter app](https://community.quilter.ai/t/a-brand-new-quilter-app/66)
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A brand new Quilter App We've entirely rebuilt Quilter's web app to improve our job creation, submission, and review workflow.Try the new Quilter appAt Quilter, we imagine our product as two distinct, interconnected h… [Next page](https://community.quilter.ai/c/updates/5.md?page=1)