Quilter

What is Quilter?

Quilter is physics-driven AI software that automates printed circuit board placement and routing. It generates multiple layout candidates in hours rather than weeks and validates them with physics throughout.

Key capabilities of Quilter

• Placement and routing: Automates boards of 100 to 1,000 components.
• Pin handling: Currently strongest at 2,000 to 5,000 pins.
• Through-hole vias: Supported, with blind and buried vias in development.
• BGA fanout: Automated in beta.
• Physics validation: Applied at every step.
• ECAD compatibility: Cadence, Altium Designer, KiCad, OrCAD and Siemens Xpedition.
• Self-hosting: Available for enterprise data residency.

How Quilter works

You import a design from your ECAD tool, and Quilter generates several placement and routing candidates validated by physics checks. Length matching and RF routing are listed as coming soon. Data is encrypted with TLS 1.3 and AES-256 and not used for training.

Who uses Quilter?

Hardware teams in semiconductors, aerospace and defense, robotics and consumer electronics speeding board bring-up and design validation.

Quilter pricing

Quilter has a free version for individuals, a startup program with discounts and paid tiers whose prices are not on its homepage. Enterprises can self-host.

Quilter alternatives

CELUS automates schematic and component selection, while Toolpath and CloudNC automate CNC machining. Quilter specifically automates PCB layout.