>I believe that solving autorouting will be a massive unlock for physical-world innovation and is a key piece to enable the “vibe-building” of electronics.
I strongly believe that the CAD world including EDA is at the verge of disruption by an AI or more correctly Machine Intelligence (Constraint Programming - CP to be exact) very similar to how LLM disrupting the Chatbot technology [1],[2].
The path to this is most probably by solving the autorouting mechanism with CP, a deterministic logic, optimization and constraint programming machine based intelligence [3], [4], [5],[6].
Fun facts, the modern founder of logic, optimization, and constraint programming is George Boole, the grandfather of Geoffrey Everest Hinton, the "Godfather of AI" and "Godfather of Deep Learning".
[1] Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R & D (313 comments):
I strongly believe that the CAD world including EDA is at the verge of disruption by an AI or more correctly Machine Intelligence (Constraint Programming - CP to be exact) very similar to how LLM disrupting the Chatbot technology [1],[2].
The path to this is most probably by solving the autorouting mechanism with CP, a deterministic logic, optimization and constraint programming machine based intelligence [3], [4], [5],[6].
Fun facts, the modern founder of logic, optimization, and constraint programming is George Boole, the grandfather of Geoffrey Everest Hinton, the "Godfather of AI" and "Godfather of Deep Learning".
[1] Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R & D (313 comments):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43447616
[2] Diagrams AI can, and cannot, generate (68 comments):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398434
[3] Constraint programming:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_programming
[4] Logic, Optimization, and Constraint Programming: A Fruitful Collaboration - John Hooker - CMU (2023) [video]:
https://www.youtube.com/live/TknN8fCQvRk
[5] "We Really Don't Know How to Compute!" - Gerald Sussman - MIT (2011) [video]:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HB5TrK7A4pI
[6] High-Quality Ultra-Compact Grid Layout of Grouped Networks [PDF]:
https://ialab.it.monash.edu/~dwyer/papers/gridlayout2015.pdf