Diode Computers
AI agents and engineers that take a circuit board from a description, block diagram, or KiCad project to assembled hardware, with design, fab, and assembly in one place.
Summary rewritten from the vendor site because the catalog version did not match it.
What it does and how it connects
Diode Computers takes a board from idea to assembled hardware, with design, fab, and assembly in one place. Requirements become a schematic and layout written as code that the company AI agent and engineers can check, every design is checked against the fab rules before boards are made, and parts are sourced and boards assembled in-house in Brooklyn, from prototypes to production.
There are two ways to start. Self-serve customers design with the AI agent from a description, block diagram, or KiCad project, with manufacturability checks before fab and instantly quoted fab and assembly. Enterprise customers bring requirements to Diode electrical engineers, with a dedicated Slack channel, priority support, and hardware bring-up.
The homepage shows two of the company's own boards as examples: Whisper, a 50 by 87.5 mm 10-layer board built around an AD9361 transceiver and Zynq UltraScale+, and Helm, a 95 by 60 mm 10-layer board built around an NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX module.
Alternatives
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Generates PCB designs from a specification as a product, rather than a service that also fabs and assembles the boards in-house.
- DeepPCB
A cloud routing service for an already placed board, rather than a design, fab, and assembly service.
Recurring errors it addresses
Error Index entries this tool is built to reduce or work around.
- Interactive routing creates unwanted micro-segments and awkward paths that take time to clean up.Error Index
- Grid snap and move commands can disconnect items or reposition them in unwanted ways.Error Index
- GUI lag, occasional freezes, and sluggish editor switching interrupt concentration.Error Index
- Wayland/NVIDIA users report graphical glitches, flicker, or instability.Error Index
Sources
Not verified
- Altium and Cadence Allegro compatibility from the directory record: not confirmed on the homepage as read.
- Datasheet cross-referencing from the directory record: not stated on the homepage as read.
- A public repository: none verified; the homepage mentions open source reference designs but no repository URL was read.
- Real user voices: no real linked post read for this page.
Last verified November 6, 2026. Listings are informational. The evidence score measures public, verifiable evidence and is not an endorsement or a compatibility claim.