SAMD51: 6-Layer Compact MCU Board
- Routed
- 99.5%
- Run time
- 1h 51m
- Est. by hand
- ~56 hrs (7 days)
- Est. savings
- ~38 hrs
Typed the ground and split-power layers as power, and defined the USB pair the file was missing.
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DeepPCB · Coming to Altium Designer
AI PCB Design for Altium Designer.
DeepPCB routes your board to the design rules you already wrote in Altium Designer, around the nets you routed yourself, and hands it back ready for review. A Route button inside Altium Designer is next. Founding users get it first.
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The first Altium Designer release goes to a small group of founding users. They shape what ships.
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Your first thirty minutes of routing are free.
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What it does
Open the board and start reviewing.
DeepPCB reads the rules you already wrote, routes to every one that governs copper, and hands the board back clean against your own DRC.
Concept: DeepPCB inside Altium Designer. The board is a real run, drawn from its published geometry: SAMD51J, 6 layers, 65 nets. The designer routed 136 of 212 connections. DeepPCB routed 75 more in 1 h 50 min 54 s and left one for review. Read the benchmark →
Routes
Signal and power nets, differential pairs, length-matched groups within your tolerance.
Connects
Vias inside your drill pairs and styles. Plane and polygon connections as specified.
Respects
Rooms, keepouts, permitted layers and rule priority. Parts never move.
Leaves alone
Mask, testpoint and SI rules, silkscreen, everything it didn't route.
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Zach Peterson · OnTrack host
Altium's OnTrack Podcast
“Imagine, for example, Altium had a panel built into it that could then send your design to these different AI tools.”
Zach asked the DeepPCB team how to stop AI tools from shipping epic hardware fails. Their answer, on screen: Cooper reads the board, flags what the design file leaves unspecified, like a missing reference plane or a USB pair that isn't 90 Ω, and routes once you accept the fixes. They also ran a board Zach sent them.
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How it fits
Route part of the board, or all of it. Then run it again.
You keep designing in Altium Designer, the way you do now. Hand DeepPCB a few nets, one block, or the whole board, as often as the design changes.
MOTOR_CTRL_48V.PcbDoc
Routed by you
Routed by DeepPCB this run
Kept from an earlier run
Left open
Nothing to switch to. Libraries, rules and outputs stay in Altium Designer.
Your work stays put. Placement and hand-routed nets come back untouched.
Any time, any size. A few nets take minutes. A whole board, under two hours.
What it means
Your next revision doesn't wait for layout.
The board is placed. Layout can't take it until the 20th. Today that leaves three choices: route it yourself at night, wait in the queue, or send it to a bureau. With DeepPCB, the engineer who owns the circuit routes it this afternoon.
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Day 10
Your goal, sooner
Whatever you’re after, you stop waiting on the board.
If you design the circuit
Test the idea while it's still fresh.
Your board is placed and the layout queue is two weeks long. Route it yourself this afternoon and be at the bench before the idea goes cold.
If you lead layout
Keep your best people on the hard boards.
Hand off the sensor breakouts and the fourth revision. Your team spends its time on the RF, DDR and dense boards only they can do.
If you run R&D
Get more answers per quarter, same team.
Try the four-layer and the six-layer version before you commit. You find out sooner whether it works, without adding headcount.
Real Altium Designer boards
Hand it over after lunch. Review it before you leave.
Each of these Altium Designer boards came back routed in under two hours. Put that clock next to what a board like yours costs you by hand, then decide what you'd rather do with the week.
USB-C PD Sink: 4-Layer Power Board
- Routed
- 100%
- Run time
- 40m 30s
- Est. by hand
- 32-40 hrs (4-5 days)
- Est. savings
- ~23-31 hrs
Retyped both inner layers as power and gave VBUS, 3V3 and ground wider tracks before routing.
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24 V ECU: 4-Layer Control Board
- Routed
- 99.7%
- Run time
- 1h 26m
- Est. by hand
- ~40 hrs (5 days)
- Est. savings
- ~31 hrs
Typed the inner layers as power, widened the 24 V and 3.3 V rails, and split the VCC plane so 24 V could use it.
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Your data
Yes, Your Board Goes to the Cloud.
Routing runs on DeepPCB's servers. Your designs are private: never shared, never anyone else's example. On the self-serve tier, uploads may be used to improve the engine.
Unless it can't.
DeepPCB for Enterprise runs on-prem or in your private cloud, so boards never leave your network. Contractual IP terms, including no training on your data, under an MSA and SLA.
Get it first
Get it first in Altium Designer. Route today in KiCad.
A Route button inside Altium Designer is next, and founding users get it first, with a direct line to the team building it. You don't have to wait to see what it does on your boards: KiCad opens your .PcbDoc, and the DeepPCB plugin routes it there today. Tick the box and we'll help you set it up.
Founding users get
- The first buildRoute inside Altium Designer before anyone else.
- A direct lineA shared channel with the engineers building it.
- A vote on what shipsYour boards and rules decide what we support next.
- Routing creditsFree minutes on your own boards while you wait.
Tonight, on a copy of your board about 10 minutes, then let it run
- Open it in KiCad File › Import › Non-KiCad Board File, pick your .PcbDoc. ~2 min
- Add the DeepPCB plugin Install it once; a Route button appears in the PCB editor. ~5 min
- Press Route Lock what you hand-routed, set a time budget, review each revision as it arrives. ~3 min
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