Engineer designs radio chip in 7 days with Claude, a job that would take months solo
jwt0625 · x · 2026-11-10
Hardware engineer matthewvenn says he designed a radio chip in 7 days with Claude's help — work that would have taken months alone. The die shot shows the full layout.
He raises the key question of how to use AI for chip design without skipping the learning, and plans to discuss it with analog design professors Harald Pretl and Carsten Wulff, who are experimenting with AI in their workflows.
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