If anything, it is surprising that the LLM is so bad at stealing a ready-made RP2350 design! There are plenty of easy-to-find tutorials like [0] and [1] that handhold you through the entire design process, and a simple search will give you dozens of design files for open-source boards.
replyAt this level of board complexity you almost have to try to make it completely non-functional, so although it is nice to see it in practice I am not exactly surprised that a LLM with a decent bunch of assistance managed to do it. But there's quite a gap between the equivalent of poorly copying a "Hello World" from StackOverflow and making actual production-ready boards.
[0]: https://pip-assets.raspberrypi.com/categories/1214-rp2350/do...
[1]: https://jlcpcb.com/blog/how-to-design-layout-with-rp2350
You have to be more specific about what you mean by design. The models are excellent and the netlist and the components along with tradeoffs.
replyDesign means PCB routing. A schematic is the PCB equivalent to a Mermaid diagram.
replyi noticed the same treying to just generate 3D models using AI, i wonder if a well trained very specific world model would be better for the task
replyIt’s the training data. Finished work isn’t training data because parts are sooooo different, but maybe if the finished designs were properly labeled into the training pipeline it might work? Or the iterative work itself might need to be the training corpus.
replyMaybe it's not properly benchmarked.
replyA standard benchmark using kicad to create or fix electronic designs would go a long way in motivating and measuring improvement.
There's eebench, but maybe it's not exactly what you were thinking
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