August Allspice updates: Chat with DRCY is coming and Altium and KiCAD support got better!
September shaped up to be a busy one. We were at three shows in three weeks, DRCY got a lot more conversational, and Altium and KiCAD projects now show up in Design Reviews the way they do in your ECAD tool. Here's what happened!
📝 View all product updates in detail on our Headway changelog. Updated every other week.
📂 Altium and KiCad project UX improvements
Design Reviews now understand your project structure
Reviewing an Altium or KiCad design now feels closer to how it does in your ECAD tool. Design Reviews recognize these projects, so you can easily navigate the schematic hierarchy, search for a net or component across multiple sheet, and hide/show sheets that didn't change to stay focused. Schematics and PCB files also sort to the top of the project grouping, right where you expect them.
🙋♀️ Thanks for coming to talk with us.
Conference season started in September!
We were at three of the biggest hardware design events this month. Lots of you came to say hi, and joined us for a couple of dinners:
AI Infra Summit (Sept 15–17) in Santa Clara, [Booth 741]. Where the datacenter and AI compute hardware teams are, and where design cycles are moving the fastest. Our Co-Founder & CEO, Valentina Ratner, will take the stage on Day 2 with "Redesigning Hardware Development with AI" (Expo Theater 1, 11:15am).
Embedded World North America (Sept 22–24) in Anaheim, [Booth 6901]. Firmware and embedded systems, where schematic review and hardware/software handoff overlap most.
PCB West (Sept 29–Oct 2) in Santa Clara, booth [Booth 508]. The most popular PCB design, fab, and assembly event of the year. Note the exhibit floor is open Wednesday, Sept 30 only, 10am–6pm.
For future conference appearances, stop by any of them to get hands-on with AllSpice, including DRCY our AI design review agent. Bring your own test schematics or use ours to test AllSpice!
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🌟 Coming up in September
Until now, DRCY reviewed your designs with a specific set of best practices and context. Now can just ask the specific things you want to know and review for a design.
Chat with DRCY is a conversation inside your repo, with direct access to your version-controlled designs and the datasheets behind them.
"Are there free pins on this MCU?", "Check the power connections on this page", "Build me a voltage derating report for these parts" are some of the tasks you can give DRCY through this new interface. Focused answers on demand, scoped to what you're actually working on. Started in closed beta with a handful of customers, general availability came in September 🙌
That’s it for this month’s product updates. We’re excited to keep making hardware development faster and easier, and we appreciate everyone who shares feedback along the way. Questions, feature requests, or demo requests are always welcome!
