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# siliXon
> siliXon turns a plain-English description of an electronic device into an editable printed circuit board (PCB) design built from real, purchasable components. It is made for anyone with an idea, not only engineers.
siliXon's assistant, Rocky, chats with you to clarify what the board should do. siliXon then chooses the components and their placement, draws the schematic and routes the board. You can review and edit the result in 2D and 3D: move parts, draw or remove traces, add vias, and revise the design through conversation. Every board must pass siliXon's engineering checks before you send it to manufacture, and you own the design and its manufacturing files.
siliXon is in early beta: it creates 2- and 4-layer boards and works best for mostly digital designs, with limited analogue capability. Check boards thoroughly before manufacturing.
## Product
- [Try siliXon](https://app.silixon.io/sign-up): Describe a board and generate it
- [How it works](https://silixon.io/#product): Describe, clarify, generate, manufacture
- [FAQ](https://silixon.io/#faq): Required skills, current capabilities, editing, design ownership and manufacturing
## Example boards
- [Temperature indicator](https://preview.silixon.io/temperature-indicator): A coin-cell temperature sensor with a blinking LED alert.
- [Bluetooth remote](https://preview.silixon.io/bluetooth-remote): A two-stick remote with an ESP32-S3 controller and USB-C programming.
- [USB Macro Pad](https://preview.silixon.io/usb-macro-pad): Four buttons, four status LEDs, and a USB-programmable ESP32-S3 controller.
## Comparisons
- [All comparisons](https://silixon.io/compare): Where siliXon sits among PCB and AI hardware tools
- [siliXon vs KiCad](https://silixon.io/compare/silixon-vs-kicad): Free, open-source desktop EDA for schematics and PCB layout
- [siliXon vs Altium Designer](https://silixon.io/compare/silixon-vs-altium-designer): Professional EDA for complex, multi-layer production boards
- [siliXon vs Schematik](https://silixon.io/compare/silixon-vs-schematik): AI that turns a prompt into Arduino, ESP32 and Pico projects
- [siliXon vs Blueprint.io](https://silixon.io/compare/silixon-vs-blueprint): AI build plans with parts, wiring and assembly steps
- [siliXon vs Flux.ai](https://silixon.io/compare/silixon-vs-flux-ai): Browser ECAD with an AI agent that designs alongside you
- [siliXon vs Diode](https://silixon.io/compare/silixon-vs-diode): AI-assisted board design service, from spec to production
- [siliXon vs Quilter](https://silixon.io/compare/silixon-vs-quilter): AI placement and routing from your finished schematic
- [siliXon vs SnapMagic](https://silixon.io/compare/silixon-vs-snapmagic): AI copilot for Altium, built on the SnapEDA parts library
- [siliXon vs CELUS](https://silixon.io/compare/silixon-vs-celus): AI that turns requirements into schematics and a BOM
- [siliXon vs atopile](https://silixon.io/compare/silixon-vs-atopile): Code-native electronics design, with an agent in the browser
- [siliXon vs tscircuit](https://silixon.io/compare/silixon-vs-tscircuit): Open-source framework for designing PCBs in TypeScript
## Articles
- [All articles](https://silixon.io/blog): Articles from siliXon on PCB design, electronics and building hardware from plain English.
- [Swinging to comma.ai's podium](https://silixon.io/blog/pcbgolf): Rocky got third place on comma.ai's PCB Golf contest, whose purpose was to get the smallest board possible given a set of components and a scoring algorithm. The only autonomous solution on the podium.
- [How do I design my first electronic circuit board? (PCB)](https://silixon.io/blog/beginner-pcb-design): Beginner electronics and PCB design made simple: describe your first circuit board in plain English and siliXon picks the parts, places, routes and checks it. siliXon provides the easiest way to design circuits for anyone regardless of experience.
- [Rocky v1.5 is live](https://silixon.io/blog/rocky_v1.5): Today we're shipping Rocky v1.5, and it's the biggest jump in quality we've released so far. It's more accurate, far more precise in how it changes your board, and it can now actually see the layout it's working on.
- [Unlimited battery life: Sub-threshold design](https://silixon.io/blog/subthreshold): An introduction to sub-threshold design
- [We Asked Over 100 Engineers: Why PCB Design Takes So Long? Here’s What We Found](https://silixon.io/blog/design_flow): Having talked to over 100 engineers in the past few months to gain a sense of what problems engineers face while designing PCBs, we found that engineering teams can take, on average, 2–3 months to get a PCB from concept to market-ready.
- [A brief history of PCBs](https://silixon.io/blog/history): A brief history of the PCB, from its inception to its current state.
## Company
- SILIXON Limited, Cambridge, London and Dublin, since 2025
- [Talk to the founders](https://calendly.com/mihai-silixon/meeting)
- [X](https://x.com/silixon_io), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/silixon/), [Discord](https://discord.gg/zWcWqsyS8p)
## Optional
- [Terms of Service](https://silixon.io/terms)
- [Privacy Policy](https://silixon.io/privacy)
