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Quilter
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Reinforcement-learning engine that auto-places and routes PCB layouts from existing CAD files, validated against physical constraints.
68K visits/mo
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The New GitBook
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Documentation platform for publishing accurate, AI-ready docs sites, with Git sync and an MCP server for AI tools.
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Macroscope
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AI tool for engineering teams that automates code review, status updates, and answers questions about what's changing in code.
21K visits/mo
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Core features
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- ✦Imports existing projects from major ECAD tools
- ✦Generates thousands of candidate board layouts via reinforcement learning
- ✦Flags bypass capacitors, impedance nets, and differential pairs for review
- ✦Supports parallel iteration across stack-ups and manufacturers
- ✦Transparent design review against a full constraint checklist
- ✦Returns files in the same CAD format for DRC and fab-file generation
- ✦Publish structured documentation sites
- ✦Git sync for docs-as-code workflows
- ✦AI setup agent to build and import docs
- ✦GitBook MCP server for AI access
- ✦Enterprise controls
- ✦Free tier to start
- ✦AI code review
- ✦Automatic engineering status updates
- ✦Agent that answers questions and takes action
- ✦Metrics on coding time and project focus
- ✦Pushed vs landed tracking
- ✦Commit and contributor insights
Use cases
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- →Speeding up IC evaluation board layout from weeks to hours
- →Cutting design validation board cycles from months to days
- →Reducing backplane and interconnect board bring-up time
- →Iterating multiple layout candidates in parallel before fabrication
- →Publish product and API documentation
- →Maintain docs-as-code with Git sync
- →Make docs consumable by AI assistants
- →Import existing docs into a hosted site
- →Automating code reviews
- →Keeping stakeholders updated on engineering progress
- →Understanding what's changing in a codebase
- →Tracking team productivity metrics
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