siliXon
Product Hunt Mihai Mesteru
siliXon turns a plain-English idea into a PCB you can order. It picks parts, routes the board, and checks the design before manufacture.
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siliXon launched today with a simple pitch: describe a device in plain English, and it will carry that idea all the way to a routed, manufacturable circuit board. The target user is clear too. This is built for people who have an idea, not just engineers who already live in schematics and layout tools.
At the center is Rocky, the design agent. It asks what it needs to know, then chooses real, purchasable components, places them, draws the schematic, and routes the copper. That’s the whole chain, from vague concept to something that can actually be made.
The product also gives users room to work the old-fashioned way if they want. Boards can be edited in 2D and 3D, or handled by asking Rocky to keep going. Before anything heads to manufacture, every board has to pass engineering checks.
And the files don’t disappear into a black box. siliXon says the design files belong to the user, which is the part that should make anyone in hardware sit up a little straighter.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the kind of AI product that makes sense because it attacks the annoying middle, not the fantasy. The real test isn’t whether it can talk about hardware; it’s whether it can get from idea to something manufacturable without turning the user into a spectator. Too many tools dress up a demo and call it engineering.
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