How well does this software do in creating board designs that meet common government compliance requirements?
We have an internal scoreboard that tracks how much of each job we successfully automate, and we steadily improve our algorithms to make progress on that.
Are you able to share any of the compliance standards you have certified your boards to? Have any of these boards been certified for sale in a consumer product?
I ask because FCC Class B radiated emissions limits (for example) are tricky to meet, and the design requirements to get there are frequently not well understood.
We're optimizing our development for features that make us immediately more productive at designing boards. Thus far that has been things like solvers for power supplies and automated component selection. The special case stuff will come later, when it becomes a bottleneck.
Do I read a "no" between the lines of my question regarding DDR3? I ask because that's a design segment you could automate to great effect. The DRAM is nearly always the riskiest part of an embedded processor design - so much so that many companies (even large ones in my experience) do not deviate from vendor generated reference designs.
Your point about DRAM is well taken, and we'll hopefully have a job justifying that bring-up soon.
The concept looks great. I'm glad to see people working to automate some of the drudgery in EE CAD.