Sergiy Nesterenko @sergiynest Twitter profile

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Sergiy Nesterenko

6 months

I am thrilled to announce that @quilterai has raised $10M in Series A funding led by @ericvishria at @benchmark to automate circuit board design. 🧵🧵🧵

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

Using physics-informed reinforcement learning, Quilter learns to design circuit boards by grading itself against what really matters: manufacturability, electromagnetics, thermodynamics, etc.

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@quilterai is automating PCB layout - a slow and laborious process necessary to create circuit boards. Today, we are releasing Quilter in open beta!

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

Quilter is a company built by and for hardcore engineers. We have chosen to tackle something important and incredibly difficult. There are no off the shelf solutions to this problem, no “AI API” we can call to get a result.

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

That's why I started Quilter – to build an AI “compiler” for circuit boards that lets engineers focus their creative energy on expanding the boundaries of human innovation, not tediously implementing their ideas within them.

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

As a software engineer, I am spoiled with amazing tools that help me write, validate, test and ship software in minutes. But, as a hardware engineer, I feel like I am stuck having to compile my own code.

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

This is the kind of challenge that our team lives for. If you’re interested in working at a place like this, please consider joining us!

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to @ericvishria at @benchmark , as well as @KVibhor and @SriViswan at @coatuemgmt for their investment in @quilterai , as well as to @chrissymeyer at @rootvc and @mcgd at Harrison Metal for their ongoing support.

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

We are actively hiring across multiple roles! Every member of the team carries significant responsibility and weight. These will be no different. If you’re up for a challenge come chat with us!

Quilter

@quilterai

6 months

Come work at Quilter! We're currently #hiring for several foundational, remote-friendly roles in: - Electrical engineering - Reinforcement learning - Electromagnetics simulation - DevOps - Product design Learn more at

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

And most importantly, to the @quilterai team and their families – thank you for everything you have given to help us be here today. We won’t let you down! 🚀🌔

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@Jason @sundeep thanks for discussing @quilterai on @twistartups ! @Jason today, it's efficiency - but total automation, not copilot. The designs we auto generate now take customers a week to create by hand. A major pain I felt at @SpaceX . Breakthroughs are coming :)

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@mr2___rm2 Indeed! Shoutout to the open source design featured here.

GitHub - tjko/fanpico: Fanpico: Open Source Smart PWM (PC) Fan Controller

Fanpico: Open Source Smart PWM (PC) Fan Controller - tjko/fanpico

github.com

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@SimonYoung76 @quilterai @ericvishria @benchmark Great question! The simple answer is: we don't need external training data. Quilter is built with Reinforcement Learning - that is it trains itself without human examples. We can validate that a PCB design is good by running physics simulations.

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@CXMacedo Computers are getting really good at playing games (Chess, Go, etc). Make the game "design a circuit board", make the score "will it work in real life?". That's @quilterai

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@SimonYoung76 @quilterai @ericvishria @benchmark This is similar to how @GoogleDeepMind trained AlphaGo. The agent played Go against itself until it became far better than any human. It is our goal to do the same thing with PCB layout.

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

It's been a blast working with you on this @kane ! Thanks for being with us on this journey!

Kane 謝凱堯

@kane

6 months

generative AI is going to accelerate so many industries as people figure out how to abstract the techniques @sergiynest and the team at seed co @quilterai are doing it for electrical engineering

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@Peps_rp Couldn't agree more. A really long time ago I read about a genetic algo being used to configure an FPGA. It ended up using the parasitics in the chip to make the algo work. Will be so interesting when we can do that at the full PCB level. "Five individual logic cells were

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

We've had over a thousand new engineers try Quilter in the last few weeks submitting some really interesting designs. We really want to see some of these come to life, so we're subsidizing board builds! If you want to build a Quilter design in real life, we'll cover the cost of

Quilter

@quilterai

6 months

Build free prototypes of AI-generated circuit boards with our new "Fab for Free" program! Learn more at

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@ericvishria @quilterai Thank you for joining us on the journey @ericvishria ! I am excited to partner with you in building this vision!

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@quilterai on @twistartups !

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@somewheresy Running @quilterai on a computer @quilterai designed. Challenge accepted.

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@SriViswan @coatuemgmt @quilterai @benchmark Thank you Sri! Excited to work with you in the years to come!

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@avidan It's definitely heating up! And I'm glad. Well selfishly of course ;) But also because this ecosystem badly needs it!

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@KVibhor @quilterai @benchmark @ericvishria @chrissymeyer Thank you Vibhor! So excited to build with you!

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@eigenhector @quilterai Thank you Hector!!

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

5 months

@WSummerlinAI @HQAutopilot @TurpentineMedia Thanks so much for the discussion @WSummerlinAI and congrats on the launch! Honored to be the first on the new pod ;)

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

Thanks for the great conversation @prateekvjoshi ! Designing hardware with software is a topic that is so ripe for discussion. Really appreciate you supporting that conversation!

Prateek Joshi

@prateekvjoshi

6 months

The topic on Infinite ML pod today is designing printed circuit boards with AI We have @sergiynest on the show to talk about it. He's the cofounder/CEO of @quilterai . They recently announced their $10M Series A led by @benchmark

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@mcgd @quilterai @ericvishria @benchmark Thank you Michael! You believed in me before I believed in myself. I will never forget it :)

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@CXMacedo @quilterai Right now, we focus just on speed and alleviating human labor. PCBs take days, weeks, even months to design. Something like a motherboard in a computer or phone is easily 2-4 months of layout work. Reducing that to a few hours of compute time drastically accelerates your

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

9 months

@verbose_avocado @quilterai Easy to do well when you have a great team standing by your side ;)

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@thanksmach @quilterai is far from perfect now - but we've made a bunch of really cool designs that work in real life without issue. This one was from more than a year ago, but is still one of my favorites because it demonstrated an STM32 with a camera, SD card, USB, a screen, and enough

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

5 months

@quilterai

Cerebras Systems debuts wafer-scale AI training chip with 4T transistors - SiliconANGLE

siliconangle.com

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@tastybits @quilterai @ericvishria @benchmark @MacroFab @LnghrnEngineer That would be awesome, thank you for the offer! Will follow up in DMs :)

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@LnghrnEngineer thanks so much for hosting this conversation! A technical deep dive with other EEs is my favorite kind of conversation ;) Great listen for anyone curious about how PCB design automation is evolving!

Parker Dillmann

@LnghrnEngineer

6 months

This week we have @sergiynest to discuss revolutionizing PCB design automation. He shares his journey from aerospace to starting @quilterai , aiming to transform PCB design process into a streamlined, AI-driven process. 🤘Subscribe and Listen today! 🤘

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@StewartalsopIII @quilterai @ericvishria @benchmark Yeah definitely up for it! Let's coordinate in DMs :)

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@sasank51 @quilterai We could easily attempt >8 layer counts, but that's overkill given some of our other current limitations. It won't be long though ;)

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

@sasank51 @quilterai We run multiple attempts simultaneously ranging from 2 to 8 layers. Our goal is generally to reduce layer count to try and make the board cheaper to fab, but of course on most boards 4+ layers are a must.

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Sergiy Nesterenko

@sergiynest

6 months

Thanks so much for the discussion @benjaminwolba ! Appreciate you taking the time to dig in and discuss the efforts of the team @quilterai !

Benjamin Wolba

@benjaminwolba

6 months

Quilter leverages AI to automate the design of circuit board layouts and accelerate innovation in electronics. Founded by @sergiynest , the startup recently raised $10M in Series A funding by @Benchmark with participation from @coatuemgmt and @rootvc

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