IN NEWS: @diodeinc raises $11.4M Series A round led by @a16z to accelerate the design of circuit boards. A moderate‑complexity board takes months to design using legacy design tools. @davideasnaghi (Founder & CEO) on how they're rewriting the PCB playbook: “Our goal is basically to democratize the way that we currently build circuit boards and allow … from startups to large enterprises to take advantage of a very high‑end type of workflow." "The only way we could think about how to do it is to teach large language models who actually generate schematics." "We use code to build our circuit boards … Circuit boards are very visual. You can think about them almost as Figma, while what we do is more like web design ,  CSS and code that then gets rendered into an actual circuit board.” Diode designs, validates, and manufactures custom circuit boards with generative AI.