Quilter automates printed circuit board placement and routing. Upload a schematic, and it generates multiple fabrication-ready layout candidates overnight using reinforcement learning, validating every trace against physics rather than against design rules alone. Engineers review, adjust and resubmit, typically over two to five cycles.
Producing several candidates rather than one is the right shape for this problem. Layout involves genuine trade-offs between size, signal integrity, thermal behaviour and manufacturability, and an engineer choosing between four completed options is doing engineering, while an engineer accepting the only option produced is doing something else.
It reads and writes the major ECAD formats, Cadence, Altium, KiCad, OrCAD and Xpedition, offers self-hosted deployment, is SOC 2 Type II and does not train on user data. There is a free version and a startup programme but no published figures, physics validation is not the same as a successful fabrication run, and complex high-speed and RF work still needs an experienced layout engineer.
