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Looking Back at 2025
2025 was a year of building. We spent most of it with our heads down, working on PCB design automation tools, testing algorithms, and learning from real designs. It wasn't glamorous work—lots of debugging, iterating, and discovering what doesn't work.
This post is a thank you to everyone who was part of that journey.
A significant milestone this year was developing our algorithm to work seamlessly with the latest versions of KiCad, Altium, and Cadence. This multi-platform compatibility means designers can use our automation regardless of their preferred PCB design tool. It wasn't trivial work—each platform has its own quirks and requirements—but supporting the industry's leading tools was essential to making our automation accessible to more engineers.
Recap of Our Work Done This Year
Throughout 2025, we explored intriguing questions that came up in the PCB design space and published resources for the community. These were genuine investigations into questions that fascinated us, honest assessments of different approaches, and content designed to answer the challenging questions designers face.
These pieces explored fundamental PCB design topics and technical challenges that we thought would benefit the community, regardless of whether readers ever used our tools.
Technical investigations and our views on various topics:
- 1. The Ultimate PCB Design Checklist: A Complete Guide for Layout Engineers
- 2. Why PCB Autorouting Remains Broken? (And What Smart Designers Do Instead)
- 3. How We Automate Altium AI PCB Routing. Is it any good?
- 4. When Should You Start Planning for Signal Integrity in PCB Design?
- 5. Differential Signal Placement and Routing: A Complete Guide for PCB Designers
- 6. Can LLMs Verify PCB Designs? The Results Were Mixed
- 7. How We Automate KiCad PCB Routing. Is it any good?
- 8. How to design PCB schematic ready for AI?
- 9. Can PCBs Design Themselves: The Multi-Agent Future
- 10. How to Score Your PCB Design
- 11. Why PCB Design is Like Chess, Civilization, and StarCraft Combined
- 12. Joining IIIT Delhi's Incubation Program: The Next Chapter in PCB Design Automation
- 13. What Really Kills Electronics?
- 14. How We Hire: Building Tomorrow's Hardware-Software Bridge
- 15. How AI is Revolutionizing Electronics Design: From Concept to Production
- 16. Top PCB Manufacturers in India: Curated Guide for Hardware Developers
- 17. The Future Belongs to "Full-Stack Hardware Engineers"
- 18. Why PCB Component Autoplacement Still Requires Manual Intervention?
- 19. Why PCB Component Placement Needs a Modern Approach?
- 20. The Hidden Costs of Manual PCB Design: Beyond the Designer's Time
Thank You
To Our Customers
To the engineers and teams who chose to work with us this year—thank you. Thank you for your continued partnership and we would continue to innovate.
To Our Partners
We're grateful to Semicongate, ARPowerNow, and Flextride for their partnership and support throughout 2025. Working with organizations that believe in what we're building has been invaluable. Your collaboration, feedback, and trust have helped shape our direction.
To the AutoCuro Team
To our employees who showed up every day, tackled difficult problems, and kept pushing forward—thank you. Building something new is hard work, and your dedication, late nights debugging, and commitment to quality have been the foundation of everything we've accomplished this year. This progress belongs to all of you.
To Everyone Who Engaged With Us
To those who signed up and showed interest in what we're building—thank you for your patience as we continue development.
To the engineers who provided feedback, pointed out limitations, and asked hard questions—you made our work better.
To the broader PCB design community whose expertise we learn from daily—your knowledge is the foundation everything else builds upon.
Looking Ahead
2026 is about pushing further. We know the core challenges in PCB automation now—and we have clear direction on where to take our tools next. Our focus remains on making PCB layout faster and more accessible without sacrificing the quality and control designers need.
There's still hard work ahead—plenty of problems to solve, features to build, and improvements to make. We'll continue sharing our progress transparently, including the challenges we face along the way.
Thank you for being part of this journey. We're excited for what we'll build together in 2026.
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