It’s rare that I get to talk about a solution that I feel is unique, like CELUS’ new AI-driven hardware design tool, which is part of the CELUS Design Platform. I takes the tedious work out of design. Starting with the simple “back of a napkin” drawing, it can draw the components that will be part of the specification.
As the figure above shows, CELUS Design Assistant provides true idea-to-canvas capabilities by creating full projects from a simple image or text command. Designers can now simply tell the CELUS Design Platform to “build a robotic arm” and an AI-enabled assistant will create a system architecture required to satisfy the project. The user then chooses a top-level component based on their preferred vendor, for instance, and a complete schematic of that design will be created ensuring compatibility, reducing risk, and minimizing the time from plan to revenue.
“With the new CELUS Design Assistant, a spark of imagination is all that is needed to bring electronic design ideas to fruition,” said Tobias Pohl, co-founder and CEO of CELUS. “Literally take an image from a napkin, whiteboard, document or simply input your thoughts into the CELUS Design Assistant and our natural language models and AI algorithms will scour millions of components to create a menu of options to begin designing your device. CELUS will then guide your design journey by generating a high-level design based on preferences you choose.”
By using the CELUS Design Assistant, the complexity is reduced by guiding the designer through the choices of components. This reduces the risk, because the system recommends components that will work as intended with the rest of the components as identified by CELUS Design Platform, which has access to thousands of components and the ability to sort by availability, price, and supplier. Of course, given all this information, the CELUS Design Assistant accelerates the process by component sourcing.
The system is very complete, which is explained by the fact that CELUS was founded by a team of engineers looking to address the needs of the $1.4 trillion electronic components industry and focused on the changing the tedium of design and enabling collaboration. The CELUS Platforms supports the ecosystem of component manufacturers, distributors, EDA suppliers and engineers to enable better, faster development cycles, cost savings and increasing revenue opportunities.
Using AI-driven automation, CELUS’ proprietary CUBO component knowledge base, and comprehensive design resources to transform technical requirements into schematics in record time, developers and engineers can bring projects from concept to reality with unprecedented efficiency and precision. The knowledge base includes data from sources such as Intel, Infineon, and NVIDIA. When completed, the system provides a full schematic, including the BOM.
The new AI-empowered Design Assistant is currently under limited availability for select CELUS customers with general availability expected in Q2 2025.
Edited by
Erik Linask
