Conductor
Your engineering agent for building real hardware. Describe the device; Conductor selects real parts from live stock, budgets every rail, plans the schematic pin to pin, and hands back a bill of materials you can order.
Conductor is an engineering agent for circuit boards. Hand it the design work — sourcing, budgeting, planning, checking — while you focus on what the device should be.
How it works.
One conversation carries the design from description to order. Conductor does the engineering in between.
Describe
Tell Conductor what the device should do. It asks the questions an engineer would — power source, interfaces, size, cost — and writes the requirements down.
Select
It searches a live component library for real, in-stock parts, reads the datasheets, and registers each choice with its electrical contract.
Plan
It budgets every rail, plans the schematic pin to pin, and validates the design against the requirements it wrote down in step one.
Order
You get a complete bill of materials with live pricing and a build plan ready to send to a fab.
What it does.
A full engineering pass on every run — sourcing, budgeting, planning, checking.
Real parts, priced live.
Conductor selects from a live component library with stock and pricing attached — millions of parts, checked at design time, not after. It prefers parts from the fab’s basic library, which are cheaper to place, and anything it can’t source is flagged on the BOM, not hidden.
| Ref | Description | MFR P/N | Qty | Unit | Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U1 | Wireless MCU, 2.4 GHz | W32-C3F4 | 1 | $2.14ext $2.14 | Extended |
| U2 | Buck converter, 3.3 V / 1.2 A | BX-3312 | 1 | $0.48ext $0.48 | Basic |
| U4 | Solar charge controller | SLC-4056E | 1 | $1.87ext $1.87 | Extended |
| Q1 | N-channel MOSFET, 30 V | NM30-02G | 2 | $0.061ext $0.12 | Basic |
| C1–C8 | 100 nF X7R, 0402 | C0402-104 | 8 | $0.004ext $0.03 | Basic |
| R1–R6 | 10 kΩ 1%, 0402 | R0402-103F | 6 | $0.002ext $0.01 | Basic |
| J1 | USB-C receptacle, 16 P | UC-16P-SMT | 1 | $0.34ext $0.34 | Extended |
It shows its work.
Hand off a run and watch it happen: every search, datasheet read, and trade-off streams into the timeline live. You set the autonomy — answers only, ask before changes, or full agent mode — and you can stop it at any step.
Checked before you order.
Every rail carries a budget. Every net, pin assignment, and capacitor is checked against the requirements. A run ends in a validation report — what passed, what to review, what would fail on a real board — with a suggested fix attached to each finding.
Bulk capacitance at U2
Input capacitance is below the datasheet recommendation for 1.2 A load transients. Add 22 µF at the VSYS pin.
Standard files out.
The schematic is planned pin to pin and written in standard EDA formats, so it opens in the tools your team already uses. The bill of materials exports to CSV with designators, quantities, and extended pricing. Nothing proprietary between you and the fab.
What a run produces.
Design runs end in artifacts, not chat. Everything is saved to the project and ready to hand off.
Requirements brief
The device, written down: rails, interfaces, size, cost targets — agreed before any part is chosen.
Bill of materials
Every part with designator, quantity, unit and extended price, and live stock. Exports to CSV.
Power tree
A budget ledger for every rail, with utilization and worst-case draw.
Validation report
Findings ranked critical, warning, and info — each with a location and a suggested fix.
Schematic & netlist
Pin-to-pin connectivity, drawn and serialized in standard EDA formats.
Datasheets
Every datasheet the agent read, attached to the project where it used them.
Join the first run.
Request early accessConductor is in development at the lab. We’re onboarding a small group of early users.