siliXon

siliXon is a web platform that turns natural language into electronics. You describe the board you want to build in plain English, and siliXon takes it all the way to a routed, manufacturable PCB built on real, purchasable components. The company's framing is simple: natural language in, electronics out, for the whole world, not just engineers. The platform is built so that anyone with an idea can create their own electronics regardless of electronics background. Its design agent, Rocky, guides the process and lets you decide how much of the work it hands you. As siliXon puts it, if you can describe what you want, you can build it. Electronics design is locked behind years of studying and experience. According to siliXon, less than 0.01% of the world can design a circuit board, which means the vast majority of people with an idea for a device have no practical way to turn it into working hardware. Hardware is hard, and electronics is harder. The company also reports that after talking to over 100 engineers, it found engineering teams can take, on average, 2–3 months to get a PCB from concept to market-ready. siliXon's stated goal is to make electronics accessible to anyone: describing what you want should be enough to start building it, rather than requiring knowledge of components, schematics and copper routing. The workflow siliXon presents has four steps: Describe, Clarify, Generate and Manufacture. In the first step you provide just your ideas in simple English, with no constraints required. You can type a prompt such as "I want a garden sensor that texts me when the soil is dry." In the second step, siliXon's assistant Rocky chats with you along the way to help you figure out what you want your electronics to look like. Rocky asks you questions to verify your intent and gives you options to choose from, with the option it thinks is better recommended. Beta users have highlighted this behaviour: a student and hobbyist said they liked the self-validation and how it explains everything too, which makes it easier to cross-reference and learn on the go, while a founder appreciated that the response asks questions to verify and offers answers to choose from with the recommended option marked. In the third step, siliXon's system determines the best components and their placement, draws the schematic and routes the board. Rocky picks real, purchasable parts, and every component on the board exists on the market. The generated board remains visible and editable in both 2D and 3D. You can move parts, draw or remove traces, add vias, and revise the design through conversation — editing directly or simply asking Rocky. Rocky v1.5 is described as more accurate, far more precise in how it changes your board, and able to actually see the layout it is working on. The platform's placement and routing engine is highlighted as a world-class autorouter and autoplacer: siliXon placed third on comma.ai's PCB Golf contest, whose purpose was to get the smallest board possible given a set of components and a scoring algorithm, and it was the only autonomous entry on the podium. The fourth step is manufacture. Your board must pass all of siliXon's engineering checks before it goes to manufacture; the company runs physics and manufacturing tests and states that every board must pass them before being sent off. Once that is done, you send it off to manufacture and, as the site puts it, it is in your hands in a few days ready to use. You own the design, and siliXon provides all the necessary files to manufacture your board, including downloadable files. The Pro plan adds KiCad import and export as well as private PCBs, and the ability to upload silkscreen images is listed as coming soon. siliXon positions itself as more than an AI wrapper. Asked whether it is just another piece of "AI slop" software, the company answers that the product is built on sound electronic engineering principles, that AI helps speed up parts of the design process, that every component on the board exists on the market, and that each board is checked against physics and manufacturing tests before being sent off to the manufacturer. It states that the product is built to allow anyone to create their own electronics without needing to understand the intricacies of electronics design, and that the system checks to make sure your board can work and be manufactured. Because it is in early beta, siliXon currently allows users to create 2- and 4-layer boards and encourages users to play with mostly digital designs, as analogue circuit capabilities are limited. The headline benefits are speed and accessibility. siliXon promises end-to-end design in minutes: describe a board and get real parts, placement, routing, checks and files to manufacture. It also claims the fastest board generation in the world — going from a real prompt to a manufacturable circuit board in minutes, then sending it off to the manufacturer. For engineers, the benefit is iteration: iterate on your board quickly and make sure you only need to manufacture once, with the guidance that the more specific your prompt is, the better the final result. For beginners and hobbyists, the benefit is confidence and learning: the system teaches you along the way, and you can start with an idea and make changes as you see fit. siliXon addresses three broad user situations. A beginner who has an idea but no idea what a resistor is can use the platform to create their own electronics without understanding the intricacies of electronics design, with the system checking that the board can work and be manufactured. A hobbyist who designs and builds for fun but finds electronics tricky to grasp can start with an idea and make changes as they see fit, being taught along the way. An electronics expert can prompt the system with exact components, communication protocols and size to get a more precise result and iterate quickly. The site also offers real example boards to explore rather than only starting from a sentence: a Temperature indicator (27.5 × 32 mm, 2 layers, 18 parts, 14 vias), a Bluetooth remote (69.5 × 65.5 mm, 2 layers, 20 parts, 18 vias) and a USB Macro Pad (57 × 42.5 mm, 2 layers, 29 parts, 57 vias), each with a public preview link. siliXon is explicitly built for anyone with an idea, not only engineers — beginners, hobbyists and experienced electronics engineers alike. It is a web product: users sign up through app.silixon.io, and the platform is described as being in early beta. Pricing has two tiers. Free is £0 per month and lets you try siliXon on a real board with one end-to-end project every two weeks, limited Community access with two remixes, and public projects only; no card is needed. Pro, marked as most popular, is £14.99 per month with unlimited projects, Community access, unlimited remixes, private PCBs and KiCad import and export, while uploading silkscreen images is listed as coming soon; Pro is billed monthly and can be cancelled anytime. siliXon also notes a Product Hunt launch promotion of 48 hours of Pro, free, with no card needed. Overall, siliXon's core promise is that a sentence is enough to get started with electronics. By combining a conversational design agent, real purchasable components, an autorouter and autoplacer, physics and manufacturing checks, and fully owned design files you can send to manufacture, it lowers the barrier that has kept circuit board design in the hands of a tiny fraction of the world — natural language in, electronics out.