Atopile – Design circuit boards with code
Hey HN! We are the founders of atopile. We’re building a tool to describe electronics with code. Here is a quick demo: https://youtu.be/7-Q0XVpfW3Y Could you imagine the pain of building an entire software product using only assembly code? That’s about how we felt designing hardware. We don’t currently have good ways to describe what we need, reuse existing designs and compile that description down to a product. We started atopile to fix this. atopile is an open-source language and toolchain to describe circuits with code. The compiler is here:…
Atopile – Design circuit boards with code launched on February 5, 2024 with 595 votes, #27 of 3,962 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.
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Atopile is an open-source language and toolchain that lets hardware designers describe circuits using code instead of traditional schematic drawing methods. It enables design reuse and compilation of circuit descriptions into finished products, addressing a gap in electronics design workflows. The tool is aimed at engineers and hardware developers who want to apply software-like development practices to circuit board design.
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Hey HN! We are the founders of atopile. We’re building a tool to describe electronics with code. Here is a quick demo: https://youtu.be/7-Q0XVpfW3Y Could you imagine the pain of building an entire software product using only assembly code? That’s about how we felt designing hardware. We don’t currently…
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