AI Tools for
Hardware Engineering

Free, open source parametric 3D modeler for designing real life objects, with sketching, drawings, FEA, CAM, and many other workbenches.

Agent skills framework that gives AI coding agents parametric CAD superpowers through the build123d Python library.

College-level multimodal MCQ, the only hardware-adjacent eval in OpenAI's 463-eval registry; a sanity check, not a design benchmark.

Official development framework from Espressif for building firmware for ESP32 and other Espressif chips, with drivers, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth stacks, and build tools.

Free software for creating solid 3D CAD objects from script files, aimed at programmers rather than interactive modeling.

Cross platform embedded development platform with an IDE for VS Code and a core CLI, supporting many boards and frameworks with debugging, unit testing, and static analysis.

Python library for building parametric 3D CAD models with scripts, exporting STEP, STL, AMF, and 3MF on top of the OpenCascade kernel.

Open source text-to-CAD web application that generates 3D models from natural language, powered by OpenSCAD running in the browser.

Command line tool that provides board and library managers, a sketch builder, board detection, and uploading for any Arduino compatible board or platform.

Framework for Verilog RTL synthesis that turns hardware designs into gate level netlists for ASIC cell libraries and FPGAs, and serves as a formal verification front end.

Open source Verilog and SystemVerilog simulator and linter that compiles designs into fast multithreaded C++ or SystemC models.

Code-first electronics toolchain that compiles declarative hardware modules into KiCad layouts, making circuits writable by both engineers and AI agents.

Python based parametric BREP modeling framework for 2D and 3D CAD, built on the Open Cascade kernel for CAD as code workflows.

Open source integrated development environment for writing, compiling, and uploading sketches to Arduino and compatible boards, with autocompletion and a live debugger.

A FreeCAD MCP bridge that lets AI assistants like Claude Desktop create and edit objects, run FEM analysis, and take screenshots inside FreeCAD.

Open-source parametric 3D CAD application in pure Rust with a built-in MCP server so AI agents can model, measure, and inspect parts headlessly.

Model Context Protocol server that lets LLMs like Claude interact directly with KiCad for PCB design automation, with schematic editing, custom symbol and footprint generation, JLCPCB parts and Freerouting integration

Free, open source computational fluid dynamics software for simulating fluid flow, heat transfer, and related physics in product design and research.

A documented agent-driven experiment loop inside the freerouting repo where coding agents propose routing optimizer changes and score them against frozen baselines with gate checks.

Suite of zero-dependency AI agent skills for KiCad that analyze schematics, PCBs and Gerbers, covering design review, EMC pre-compliance, BOM and fab prep.

An agent skill for SolidWorks that packages part modeling, assembly operations, drawings, FEA, and a self-review loop into a natural-language driven automation toolkit.

Layout viewer and editor for chip mask layouts (GDS and OASIS), with fast viewing of huge files, editing, scripting, and layout verification.

Four-agent text-to-CAD framework that splits spec planning, geometric design, Python coding, and validation across separate LangGraph agents to generate printable build123d models with a fraction of the tokens single-model systems use.

Embedded development skill set for AI coding assistants covering the full MCU firmware workflow: builds across Keil, IAR, CMake, and PlatformIO, flashing, GDB debugging, serial monitoring, Modbus, CAN, and VISA protocol debugging, and peripheral driver adaptation on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Native KiCad 10 plugin exposing schematic, layout, routing, and manufacturing tools to AI agents over MCP through KiCad's official IPC API.

UK AI Safety Institute Inspect-framework registration of a ChipBench Verilog-debugging eval, bringing hardware tasks into the safety-benchmark mainstream.

Automation harness for EasyEDA Pro that gives an AI typed schematic and PCB actions in three forms, a CLI, an agent skill and a stdio MCP adapter with 12 tools, with mutations passing through workflow gates and an audit log

MCP server that exposes CAD modeling operations to AI agents.

Open source AI agent that designs, documents, and verifies PCBs from a natural-language brief directly on existing KiCad repositories.

AI agent that designs, documents and validates real PCBs from a prompt, working directly on existing KiCad repositories and checking its work with ERC and DRC.

FreeCAD workbench with a chat interface that builds and edits 3D models from natural language through 50 structured tools and 21 LLM providers.

1,500 aligned image pairs over 6 PCB defect categories, the de-facto AOI defect-detection benchmark for vision-based inspection AI.

Rust accelerated A star autorouter for KiCad 9 and 10 as a KiCad plugin and CLI, with differential pairs, length matching, placement optimization and an AI tab plus Claude Code routing skills

A Python-based part library and package manager for parametric CAD that versions reusable parts and assemblies through git and cloud storage.

156 HDLBits-derived description-to-Verilog tasks in Machine and Human splits, verified by Icarus Verilog simulation with pass@k.

Human-written skill set that guides AI agents through KiCad schematic, layout, BOM, export and Gerber review workflows with an explicit verification ladder.

An MCP server for SolidWorks, public name SolidPilot, that raises agent input to feature-level intent and compiles it into concrete operations via a CAD-neutral intermediate representation.

Open source flow and infrastructure library that takes digital chip designs from RTL to GDSII using open source EDA tools such as OpenROAD and Yosys.

McNeel's first-party Rhino plugin and MCP server that connects Rhino and Grasshopper to AI assistants so agents can create and edit geometry, run Rhino commands, write scripts and build Grasshopper definitions in a live session.

LLM based multi-agent framework that automates OpenFOAM CFD workflows from natural language prompts, handling meshing, case setup, execution and error correction, and exposes the workflow as an MCP server.

2D to 3D CAD conversion using vision-language models.

500 simulated plus 200 forum samples testing LLM generation of Blender CAD scripts against multi-dimensional criteria.

Open source SPICE circuit simulator for analog, digital, and mixed signal circuits, driven by netlists and the command line.

Local AI CAD companion that pairs coding agents with a desktop viewer so they can generate, rebuild, screenshot, and verify parametric models and MJCF assemblies against real geometry instead of text-only reasoning.

A FreeCAD MCP suite combining a bridge workbench with a standalone server, offering CAD tools, headless mode, STEP/STL export, and connection resilience.

Open source MCP server that lets an AI drive a live Altium Designer session, with KiCad and EasyEDA Pro as additional backends, exposing around 450 tools for schematic, PCB, library and project operations over a DelphiScript bridge

783 engineer-authored tasks in 13 categories covering RTL design and verification (stimulus, checker, SVA generation) with hidden cocotb harnesses.

50 realistic NL-described designs scored on syntax, functionality, and synthesis plus PPA (Yosys/OpenROAD) against a reference.

A TypeScript MCP server for SolidWorks that routes simple operations through direct COM calls and complex ones through auto-generated VBA macros.

A minimal socket-based MCP workbench for FreeCAD with two core commands: fetching scene information and running arbitrary Python scripts.

Agent skill for 3D printing on Bambu Lab machines: finds models, slices and manages print jobs.

Python toolkit for reading, writing, analyzing, and rendering Altium files (SchDoc, PcbDoc, libraries) directly from automation, built for command-line tools, CI checks, and design-review helpers.

AI native parametric CAD platform built as a FreeCAD fork, for designing real 3D parts through conversation with focused modeling tools and editable geometry history.

MCP server and Altium scripting bridge that let an AI client query and manipulate Altium Designer projects, schematics, layouts and output jobs through Python.

Open source LLM-powered CAD generation tool that produces 3D models from natural language using CadQuery.

MCP based assistant for EasyEDA Pro and JLCEDA that generates and reorganizes schematics from natural language, resolves LCSC components, does constraint driven PCB placement and checkpoint backed routing, and runs native EasyEDA DRC

Claude Code plugin for driving real Onshape CAD with vision-based decomposition and parametric iteration.

CAD command-line tool and MCP server that gives AI agents direct control over modeling workflows.

A Python MCP server that automates SolidWorks from AI assistants, covering parts, sketches, features, and custom code execution.

AutoCAD MCP server for AI agents with live COM and headless ezdxf engines, covering drawing automation plus GD and T and tolerance validation.

MCP server with 45 tools for programmatic CAD modeling in Onshape, covering documents, sketches, features, assemblies and mates, variable tables, FeatureScript evaluation, and STEP and STL export via the Onshape REST API.

Agent skill that takes a hardware idea to a manufacturable PCB, covering concept, schematic, sourcing, layout, routing and verification while driving EasyEDA Pro over MCP from Claude Code or Codex.

MCP server from Seeed Studio that lets AI assistants analyze KiCad schematics and PCBs, trace pin-level connections, run ERC and DRC, and generate embedded code from a design.

Benchmark for AI-driven CAD generation and editing: tasks span generation and edit, scored against reference geometry.

An MCP bridge for FreeCAD covering sketch creation, 3D operations like extrude and loft, parametric design, and file management.

Python AI agent that turns a natural-language board description into BOM, schematic netlist, IPC footprints, and a routing-ready KiCad board file.

MCP server that lets AI assistants drive AutoCAD, ZWCAD, and BricsCAD from one interface.

Claude Code-powered agent environment that generates 3D-printable designs by writing OpenSCAD code from natural language.

Agent-driven PCB prototyper that turns natural-language requirements into SKiDL scripts, KiCad schematics, and layout files with an iterative correction loop.

MCP server exposing KiCad schematic, PCB, ERC/DRC, DFM, BOM and manufacturing export workflows to AI agents.

Vendor-agnostic framework for code-based CAD automation across multiple modeling backends, writable by AI agents.

MCP server that connects AI coding agents to Autodesk Fusion 360 for CAD automation through an in-Fusion add-in bridge.

LLM-powered plugin for KiCad 10 with a maintained release pipeline and a packaged installer zip.

MCP server that lets an AI assistant build build123d CAD models in a persistent session, render previews, measure geometry, validate solids, and export STEP, STL, DXF and SVG instead of writing CAD scripts blind.

Fast open source PCB autorouter for KiCad and Specctra DSN files, a Rust port of Freerouting with bug fixes, length matching, controlled impedance and differential pair routing.

Three-level benchmark that evaluates audit depth, evidence allocation and reliability in generative CAD systems.

A macro-centric FreeCAD MCP plugin with a GUI control panel, a client for running macros, and view management inside FreeCAD.

Local-first, connectivity-aware web schematic editor that imports structural SPICE, exports deterministic SPICE and Spectre netlists, and connects agents through the same typed edit model.

Conversational 3D modeling assistant that replaces menu diving with natural-language part creation and edits.

Agent framework that wires OpenSCAD, a slicer, and a print and machine fleet through one MCP server so LLM agents can run a CAD to CAM to machine pipeline.

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Open-source NURBS surface modeller in the Rhino style on the OpenCASCADE kernel, with an AI assistant and MCP integration so agents can drive modelling sessions.

Skill pack that teaches AI agents to do real AutoCAD design automation, from 2D drafting to parametric routines.

A Python MCP server that drives SolidWorks on Windows through COM automation for modeling, sketching, drawings, analysis, and export, with agent orchestration utilities.

17,900 execution-verified CadQuery programs over 106 industrial part families, scored by deterministic voxel-IoU with a live leaderboard.

MCP server for AI-assisted management of Altium Designer component libraries.

Multi-agent KiCad workspace where nine Claude Code skills carry a board from topology discussion through part selection, schematic, layout, and Gerber shipout with verification gates at each stage.

AI-native CAD, CAE and CAX workbench for agents, covering text-to-CAD generation and simulation-driven iteration.

Open-source CAD engine built for AI agents, with one-line MCP setup for agentic coding tools.

Python tools built for AI agents to parse and manipulate KiCad schematic and PCB files, with an autorouter, an LLM driven PCB layout reasoning module, circuit blocks and an MCP server

48 agentic tasks for coding agents as robot-learning engineers, including mechanical design from stock parts graded in physics simulation (mass, torque, geometry, stability).

417 real fail-to-pass bug-fix cases from six open-source hardware projects (ibex, cva6, caliptra, rocket-chip, XiangShan, OpenTitan) with a live leaderboard.

60 module-level and 4 system-level tasks from real IP (AES, E203 RISC-V, SD controller), evaluated with Verilator plus JasperGold formal in Docker.

An MCP server that exposes FreeCAD modeling, CAM, and diagnostic operations to AI agents, packaged with an agent-debugging manual for troubleshooting CAD workflows.

Production grade MCP server for EasyEDA Pro connecting AI agents to schematic and PCB workflows with up to 119 profile gated tools for design operations, DRC, BOM sourcing with JLCPCB, LCSC, Mouser and DigiKey, board analysis and manufacturing export

Converts reference images into KiCad schematics using AI vision models.

3,700 PCB placement and routing knowledge questions plus design understanding on 174 real OSHWHub boards, covering SI, EMI/EMC, power, DFM, and stack-up.

Unified harness and live leaderboard running VerilogEval v2, RTLLM v2, VGen, RTL-Repo, and Tiny Tapeout under Icarus, Verilator, Yosys, and OpenLane.

MCP server that lets AI agents read and query electrical schematics and netlists from Cadence, Altium, and KiCad designs.

AI CAD modeling agent that takes a one-line requirement and delivers real parametric CAD with an assembled STEP and BOM.

AI-driven CAD modeling agent with a visual feedback loop built on build123d and MCP for 3D-printable parts.

MCP server exposing SketchUp modeling operations to AI agents.

AI-native CAD platform that builds models from natural-language design intent.

NL to editable PCB schematic generation over an open dataset of real OSHW schematics and prompts, scored on wire connectivity and functional correctness.

MCP server for AI-driven Shapr3D modeling on top of build123d and OpenCascade.

1.17K single-line completion tasks testing RTL code completion across full repository context.

Embedded AI agent that runs on Zephyr RTOS on the microcontroller itself, with a ReAct loop and built-in GPIO skills.

MCP server for parametric 3D modeling in Autodesk Inventor, driving Inventor with AI in natural language and shipping agent skills plus documented Inventor 2026 COM API knowledge.

MCP server that gives Autodesk Fusion a typed, named tool surface over its API, with dozens of validated tools for sketches, features, assemblies, joints, measurement and export.

Open, agent-native CAD: edit code instead of clicking menus, built for humans and agents alike.

Open-source AI automation layer for SolidWorks: talk to your CAD in plain language.

OpenCode plugin for embedded systems engineering covering ESP32, STM32, FreeRTOS, PCB design, and component sourcing, with specialized firmware and hardware agents, skills, and MCP integrations.

Windows tray-app MCP server that bridges AI assistants to SolidWorks automation over a shared COM session.

MCP server that runs inside Autodesk Fusion and exposes its modeling API to AI agents.

VS Code AI coding agent that scaffolds, builds, flashes, and debugs ESP32 and Nordic nRF firmware against real hardware.

Native macOS CAD studio powered by Claude: describe a part, get a printable model.

94 HLS C++ code-generation and code-edit designs with NL descriptions, testbenches, references, parallel eval, and a leaderboard.

AI review skill for mechanical engineering: CAD, FEA, DFM, DFA and assembly checks.

Agent-driven design studio for ESPHome-compatible boards such as ESP32, ESP8266 and RP2040.

Claude Code plugin and MCP server that sources LCSC parts, places and wires KiCad footprints by pin name, and prepares boards that EasyEDA can route and JLCPCB can build.

Community MCP server letting AI agents drive KiCad PCB workflows such as autorouting and LCSC part lookup, with documented safety guardrails for agent use.

Solid Edge MCP server for AI assisted CAD design, covering creation, analysis, modification and export of parts, sheet metal, assemblies and drafts over COM.

AI driven embedded engineering lab where an AI agent generates firmware, runs it on real hardware or simulation, analyzes results, and iterates, with validated golden suites across ESP32, STM32, RP2040, nRF, and RISC-V targets.

SolidWorks AI agent that executes modeling tasks from natural-language instructions.

MCP server that lets LLMs control JupyterCAD with natural language.

A collection of professionally routed KiCad boards with per-board ground truth, converted to DSN fixtures so autorouter quality can be measured against real human routing.

MCP server driving a live SOLIDWORKS session over its COM API with 92 tools.

MCP server that exposes CadQuery-based CAD generation and automated model validation tools to AI assistants.

MCP server built on the kicad-sch-api Python library for programmatic creation, search and manipulation of KiCad schematic files by AI agents.

MCP server that drives a running SOLIDWORKS session over the COM API with 92 tools for sketching, solid features, reference geometry, assemblies, and drawings, with screenshots returned as model feedback.

Local MCP bridge for EasyEDA Pro that lets Claude, Codex, VS Code and other MCP clients inspect the live project already open, with schematic and PCB context, tracing, inspection and confirmation gated write actions

Self-hosted MCP server that gives AI assistants read and write access to Onshape documents through user-owned API credentials.

MCP server that gives AI agents full access to VTK rendering for simulation data, rendering CFD and FEA results headlessly with slicing, contouring, streamlines, animations and statistics, with no ParaView GUI needed.

Text-to-CAD tooling in Elixir that emits build123d, OpenSCAD and SMLib geometry.

FastMCP server plus web app that opens QCAD Pro drafting to AI agents.

MCP server that generates CAD parts and assemblies from text descriptions for any MCP-compatible AI client.

Policy-gated MCP tools that let an AI coding agent build firmware, flash it onto a real board, stimulate inputs, and observe outputs, so the hardware run itself is the acceptance test.

Mechanical CAD skill set for Codex, Claude Code and AI agents, aligned with GB/T drafting standards.

MCP server that lets AI agents generate and modify KiCad schematics, place PCBs, route locally, and automate projects through saved project files.

Local MCP extension that lets AI assistants query and review live Altium Designer projects through nets, components, variants, and guided design reviews.

MCP server giving AI agents full control over Rhinoceros 3D.

MCP gateway for AutoCAD 2022 to 2027: text extraction, spatial queries and drawing translation.

263 embedded-firmware cases (boot, ADC, PWM, DMA, ISR concurrency, device tree) where prompts state the goal and checks verify implicit hardware knowledge.

KiCad MCP server with 109 tools across five split servers for schematic capture, PCB layout, libraries, ERC and DRC and manufacturing exports, plus six bundled Claude Code design skills

3,614 expert-reviewed multimodal QA pairs across digital and analog circuits, tagged by EDA stage, ability, and difficulty.

227 schematic-synthesis tasks scored by a deterministic 5-layer structural verifier checking SKiDL output against real-IC pin and topology constraints.

Research repo for conditional CAD generation and retrieval in text-to-CAD pipelines.

MCP gateway for Autodesk Inventor 2022 to 2027: parts, sketches, features and parameters.

Open-source package for building a localhost MCP server that hands Claude Code full control of Fusion 360.

MCP server that lets AI agents build, measure, and verify parametric parts and assemblies in a live SolidWorks session over COM.

Browser based AI-native parametric CAD research preview where an LLM agent authors designs as an editable node graph executed on the OpenCascade kernel in WebAssembly, with geometry percepts feeding an auto-repair loop and STEP export.

AI-driven CAD modeling agent that turns design concepts into precise 3D models.

Agent for embedded engineers with a closed loop debugging workflow grounded in hardware facts, integrating firmware flashing, serial and RTT log capture, GDB debugging, logic analyzer and oscilloscope capture, schematic parsing, and datasheet search.

AI harness for EasyEDA Pro that reviews schematics and PCBs offline or through a live editor bridge, then applies approved local edits with verified persistence.

Text and image driven CAD agent that writes build123d Python, runs it on a real geometry kernel, and measures dimensions and holes against the request before showing the model, with an optional live Autodesk Fusion backend.

Agent skill that encodes the reSpeaker Clip firmware's real build constraints, AT command contracts, and audio pipeline truth so coding agents stop re-deriving facts that are easy to get wrong.

AI-first parametric CAD from chat or voice, through to 3D-print preparation.

Official Zoo MCP server that gives AI agents Zoo modeling utilities including KCL execution in persistent modeling sessions, CAD file import, snapshots and text to CAD tools, separate from the Zoo Design Studio Zookeeper entry already listed.

CLI and MCP server that turns FreeCAD into a mechanical design workbench for LLM agents with 280 plus tools for parametric CAD, drawings, FEM and CFD simulation, manufacturing checks and a design control layer with ECOs and revision tracking.

Open source industrial agent platform with 25 agents spanning DFM checks, yield analysis, ECO impact, and AOI false-call filtering.

Automated three-layer design review and linter for KiCad: DRC/ERC plus spatial heuristics.

Prompt-first PCB CAD that Claude Code drives over MCP to pick real LCSC parts, autoroute, and export JLCPCB-ready fabrication files.

Local-first control plane that turns engineering intent and constraints into reviewable hardware deliverables by orchestrating specialist agents that drive KiCad, FreeCAD, CalculiX and SPICE over MCP.

Offline converter that distills STEP files into structured context packs covering dimensions, holes, fasteners, joints, weak spots, and labeled images that any LLM chat or coding agent can reason over.

Open source AI native CAD engineering agent that turns natural language instructions and technical documents into structured 2D drawings and validated, editable DXF files.

Contract-driven, agentic system for deterministic CAD generation from natural language.

Official EasyEDA Pro desktop client CLI and local bridge from EasyEDA, letting scripts or AI coding assistants drive the running editor, execute JavaScript via the extension API, run as an MCP server and export manufacturing files

AI-native PCB design tool where the agent lays out the board while the human watches and steers.

AI debugging tool for MCUs and embedded firmware that connects to real hardware through MCP, with support for ST-Link, J-Link, pyOCD, Keil, RTOS, GDB Server, and Flash debugging.

Terminal first embedded agent workbench for connecting LLMs to real world devices, sensors, serial ports, and board level tools, with PlatformIO build and upload workflows.

Native KiCad 10 plugin that gives MCP clients 202 tools for schematic work, layout, routing and manufacturing output, with pass and fail verdicts taken from kicad-cli rather than the model.

MCP server giving AI clients direct tools to edit KiCad schematics and PCBs, run Freerouting-based autorouting and ERC/DRC, and export fab packages.

Go CLI toolkit for AI-assisted KiCad design that generates, inspects and validates projects, with an ERC/DRC feedback loop and an agent skill contract.

Gives AI agents the ability to review PCB layouts and flag issues.

MCP server for SolidWorks on Windows that opens and edits parts and assemblies, creates geometry and mates, measures, rebuilds and exports through a TypeScript front end and a .NET COM worker.

Local SolidWorks parametric modeling plugin for Codex and MCP workflows, with native part, assembly, surfacing and drawing output.

MCP server exposing schematic capture, netlist generation and BOM workflows to AI agents.

AI skill for PCB design, manufacturing handoff and board bring up that bundles the EasyEDA Pro API skill: a complete EasyEDA API reference, a WebSocket bridge to execute code in the running EasyEDA Pro client, and patterns for PCB, schematic, library and project management

Electronics enclosure generator that turns a board preset and layout options into parametric KCL source built by the Zoo Design API into 3D printable enclosures with port cutouts, standoffs and lids, with an AI edit bar that prompt-edits the enclosure KCL.

AI platform for engineering drawings that detects dimensions, reviews GD&T per ASME Y14.5, checks standards, scores manufacturability, extracts BOMs and estimates cost, with a SolidWorks add-in for live sketch analysis.

Hardware as code toolchain under Copperhead: a Python embedded language and design graph kernel with units, interfaces and constraints that lowers designs to netlists, views, simulation decks and CAD.

A JSON intermediate representation plus MCP server so AI agents can design hardware, mechanical parts, and 3D models once and export to real tool files such as KiCad, FreeCAD, and glTF.

Agent skill for automating KiCad schematic and PCB review, repair, and manufacturing export through the kct command line.

STM32 first embedded AI agent toolkit for firmware generation, review, build, flash, monitor, and debug workflows, with a Python CLI and local Web UI.

AI driven PCB compiler for automated high speed hardware design: natural language to production PCB via a LangGraph agentic loop, a hardware DSL with SKiDL schematic generation, LCSC part resolution, KiCad 10 IPC integration and physics aware routing with signal and power integrity checks

CLI and TUI tool that reviews KiCad schematics with AI, catching missing decoupling caps, wrong values, unterminated pins and power rail issues against automatically fetched datasheet specs, with confidence scored findings and an interactive Ask Mode

Browser-native AI-assisted parametric CAD running OpenCascade and Replicad through WebAssembly, turning natural language into geometry with manifold validation and FDM, SLA, and CNC-oriented DFM checks.

AI agent for analog and mixed-signal circuits that builds LTspice schematics and IC blocks.

Rust MCP server and desktop app that connect AI assistants to the Arena PLM REST API for items, BOMs, changes, quality and supplier work.

Open-source parametric CAD for humans and AI agents on Windows and Linux.

AI copilot for PCB design: describe a circuit and it selects real JLCPCB and LCSC parts and lays out the board.

Plain English to exact, manufacturable CAD: the LLM picks parts and parameters, the kit emits STEP and B-rep.

FreeCAD workbench where an AI agent reads the model and applies confirmed edits as single undo transactions.

AI-driven CAD workbench and coding agent for Windows.

MCP server bridging AI agents to MoI3D on Windows and macOS.

MCP server for Siemens NX: AI agents build, inspect and export CAD models.

Engine that reads schematics and PCBs from several EDA formats into one neutral intermediate representation, then runs structural checks, revision diffs, rendering and queries.

Benchmark for AI-generated parametric CAD, scored on whether the part can actually be printed.

Self-correcting text-to-CAD agent on CadQuery that runs each generated model, measures its geometry against validity checks, and feeds the exact failure back to the model until the part verifies.

Grasshopper plugin for Rhino 8 that runs an MCP server inside Grasshopper so agentic LLMs and AI coding assistants can read, create and modify Grasshopper definitions directly.

Local first engineering control plane that lets AI agents take a design from brief toward checked evidence, using registered deterministic engineering operations and a read only workbench.

Prompt-to-hardware synthesis: schematic, layout and 3D enclosure from a single prompt.

Demo AI assistant for Onshape that detects fastener holes from real assembly geometry and batch-inserts standard parts.

Alpha-stage local MCP server and skill that lets Codex-style agents edit JLCEDA Pro boards against real component models, using isolated working copies and verified saves.

Headless C++20 PCB autorouter built for AI agents, with a CLI-only JSON interface, stable exit codes, and KiCad import/export.

Community-run eval that scores coding agents on embedded firmware tasks, bug repair, schematic reading, and PCB-level engineering work.

Founder-led research that evaluates frontier AI models on CAD operations like sweeps, lofts, and shells; the public repo now also hosts an agent-native CAD kernel effort called BendCAD.

2,860 hand-curated multimodal problems across 10 EE subdomains; frontier models score 19.5 to 47.8%, a sobering calibration of practical EE skill.

Turns a one-sentence circuit description into a routed, DRC-clean, fab-ready KiCad board.

MCP server with 24 tools that lets an AI assistant drive FreeCAD 1.1 headlessly over an XML-RPC bridge, built with a fail-closed tool contract that returns typed errors instead of raising.

Portable agent skill for Autodesk Fusion 360 over MCP with reusable workflows for parametric modeling, geometry validation, and 3D-print prep.

Industry-grade benchmark for evaluating RTL debugging capabilities.

FreeCAD workbench where a provider-agnostic LLM inspects the active document and proposes FreeCAD Python for review.

KiCad PCB and schematic automation via FastMCP: headless Gerber export plus agent inspection.

MCP server for programmatic KiCad 8 schematic and PCB design, with schematic and PCB tools, library and JLCPCB parts search, Freerouting autorouting and Gerber, SVG and 3D export, working directly on S expression files

Compact Rust MCP server that drives a running KiCad 10 PCB editor over the official IPC API, with LCSC/EasyEDA footprint support aimed at JLCPCB orders.

Mechanical Assembly Readiness Benchmark: can an AI assemble a real machine.

Onshape MCP server with 87 tools for sketching, solid features, assemblies, drawings, and export, driven from any MCP client.

Local MCP server that gives AI agents rate-limited tools to create and inspect Onshape parts through semantic CAD operations, with authentication, caching and FeatureScript handling built in.

MCP server that enables AI agents to interact with OpenFOAM for foundry casting and metallurgical simulations, with automated case setup, defect prediction and gating system optimization tools.

Companion MCP server that gives Claude full Q and A access to a PCB schematic snapshot exported from Altium, built for cross functional firmware, mechanical and test teams with no Altium license required

Claude Code plus text-to-cad workflow that shows the part on the printer bed before printing.

Reconstructs editable CAD command sequences from real photographs while correcting parameter bias, released with the paired OpenRealCAD dataset.

RTLScout benchmark suite with campaign tooling and a leaderboard site generator.

AI agent skill for systematic schematic review: rule-based coverage with layered correctness checks and evidence chains.

C# SDK for the Zoo API: text-to-CAD generation and generated part retrieval.

Read-only MCP server for Altium Designer projects: schematics, BOM, PCB and renders.

100 curated OpenCores Verilog designs with formally verified assertions, scoring correctness of LLM-generated SVA.

Design-as-code EDA MCP server that compiles text circuit descriptions written in the atopile language into routed, DRC-clean KiCad boards, fully headless.

Text-to-CAD agent: English to frozen spec to CadQuery, with spec-derived verification and slicer output.

AutoCAD automation bridge for AI agents via MCP and CLI on the native .NET API.

Agentic drawing to CAD tool that turns a technical drawing plus optional text into CadQuery geometry exported as STEP and STL, using a self-refine loop with a vision model critic and geometric reprojection checks.

Cleanroom acceptance harness that proves a CAD-style MCP command surface behaves safely and deterministically.

Official research implementation of a multimodal conversational assistant that creates and refines parametric FreeCAD models from text, speech, and image input.

One-click AI drafting review for SOLIDWORKS drawings via a VBA export macro.

178K sketch-and-extrude sequences parsed from Onshape, the foundational corpus nearly every text-to-CAD benchmark builds on.

Claude agent skill for EAGLE and Fusion 360 Electronics PCB design: placement generation from prompts.

Claude agent that drives EasyEDA Pro for schematic and PCB design.

MCP server letting AI agents read and modify a live Altium Designer session through a persistent DelphiScript bridge, with an optional KiCad backend.

626 visual questions on digital-electronics circuit diagrams testing whether multimodal LLMs actually read schematics.

Self-curating benchmark synthesis that turns agentic hardware design failures into new eval tasks.

Open source AI hardware design workspace: describe a design and iterate toward CAD models, wiring diagrams, bills of materials and assembly instructions, usable through a web app, CLI or MCP.

Declarative DSL for parametric CAD and 3D modeling with an MCP server for agents.

AI agent side panel for FreeCAD: model parametric parts by chatting with Claude.

Desktop AI workbench: agentic chat, MCP tools, voice, and CAD plus PCB design.

Open-source electronics workspace for schematics, PCB layout and 3D, with CLI and MCP interfaces.

LoRA fine-tuning dataset and plugin concept that converts plain English into KiCad Python scripts for PCB design review.

KiCad 10 project template for designing boards with Claude Code, wired for Konnect and kschlang tooling.

Rust-built MCP bridge that puts KiCad under an AI assistant's control, running entirely on the local machine with no cloud round trip.

Dual-tool CI evaluation gate for LLM-generated RTL: static analysis and simulation must agree.

Dependency-free Node harness with 96 CI tests, deterministic fixtures, mutation testing, and cross-compilation for reproducible firmware evals.

Reliability evaluation platform for LLM-assisted Verilog generation: graded question bank, self-checking testbenches and automated scoring. Docs are in Chinese.

Benchmark dataset and evaluation harness for AI-generated Ansys Lumerical scripting language.

Experimental Rust PCB autorouter paired with a benchmark-gated LLM self-improvement lab.

Declarative CAM compiler designed for natural language driven CNC workflows, turning panel layouts described in PML into validated G-code and SVG blueprints for CNC routers.

Converts text, images, point clouds, or STEP and B-Rep geometry into construction plans plus OpenCASCADE-executable Python CAD programs.

Code-driven PCB workflow repo for a custom drone flight controller where schematics, exports, and the BOM are reviewed in pull requests.

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Free parametric 3D CAD in Python on OpenCascade and PySide6, with MCP and CLI for agents.

Benchmark that tests whether multimodal LLMs can generate precise parametric 3D programs and coherent assemblies from text or images.

Tiered benchmark for language-model agents that construct parametric CAD models.

Interactive AI-powered single-layer PCB autorouter with a search-algorithm visualizer.

Agentic PCBA benchmark: can an agent design a manufacturable PCB assembly from a brief, unsupervised.

Agentic parametric 3D modeller where an AI sidecar helps build the model.

SpecRead: a 385-question benchmark for LLM specification comprehension in hardware design.

44-metric benchmarking platform that scores AI-generated CAD models against human-calibrated quality thresholds.

Conversational web workbench that turns chat prompts into parametric CadQuery or FreeCAD models with STEP and GLB export, plus an optional FreeCAD agent mode that streams tool progress to the browser.

Geometric-continuity benchmark and reinforcement-learning toolkit for text-to-CAD, graded on G0 and G1 continuity.

Open test kit for checking AI-generated Verilog: golden model, Icarus lint and Yosys synthesis.

Conversational CAD Claude Code skill: describe a part, click surfaces, get printable models.

Agent skill pack that teaches AI coding agents Zephyr RTOS and nRF Connect SDK firmware workflows, from devicetree to signed releases.

AI CAD copilot for hardware teams that reads connected CAD and PLM as one graph and returns branched model edits, reconciled BOMs, updated drawings, and RFQs from chat in Slack or email.

Cadence generative AI technology inside the Allegro X Design Platform that automates PCB placement, metal pouring and critical net routing in the cloud, integrated with signal and power integrity analysis, cutting placement and routing from days to minutes

AI capabilities layered into Altium Designer, the incumbent professional PCB design suite.

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Professional PCB design software covering schematic capture, PCB layout, and component and data management for electronics products.

Physics agnostic AI platform for simulation that trains models on existing simulation data to predict new design performance in minutes, offered as SimAI Pro for desktop component studies and SimAI Premium for cloud scale modeling.

Agentic Mode in Arduino App Lab 0.10 lets an AI agent work directly on an Arduino project through MCP and App CLI: it understands the workspace, creates and edits files, runs the app, and interprets errors as they happen, with deep knowledge of Apps, Bricks, and Sketches.

Autodesk's built-in AI assistant in Fusion that interprets natural language to answer questions, run commands, generate add-ins, and now execute scripts against the Fusion API.

PCB design tool for schematic capture and board layout; its official Autodesk page now routes electronics designers to the electronics workspace in Autodesk Fusion.

Autodesk's built-in local MCP server for Fusion that lets MCP clients send tool requests to a live Fusion desktop session for real-time modeling and command-based actions.

Mechanical design software from Autodesk for 3D modeling, simulation, visualization, and documentation of products before they are built.

CAD copilot powered by a 3D-geometry foundation model that converts scans, meshes, photos, and 2D drawings into editable parametric CAD with native feature trees.

Design Agent for mechanical engineers that reads CAD files and drawings with computer vision, flags DFM issues, checks tolerance stacks and standards, and generates tolerance reports.

AI agents that generate and execute engineering design workflows end to end across a team's existing CAD, CAE, and PLM tools, from geometry prep to optimization.

Meru Delta is an AI CAD diff that compares revisions, detects meaningful geometry changes, and writes plain-language change descriptions that roll up into ECO approval packets.

Full-flow agentic chip design from spec to GDS on Nangate45/OpenROAD, graded on functional verification plus PPA, DRC, and signoff.

18,000-sample benchmark that turns mesh, image, or render inputs into STEP or mesh and scores volumetric IoU.

AI data platform for manufacturing that digitizes drawings and connects data from PLM, ERP and procurement systems, making manufacturing data searchable by shape, text, dimensions and part names with similarity search.

PCB design platform from Cadence covering schematic capture, PCB layout, constraint management, and PSpice simulation, from the OrCAD X line for smaller teams to Allegro X for complex boards.

Two-track engineering CAD benchmark covering 300 parametric parts with zero-to-CAD and functional-editing tasks scored on B-Rep validity, DFM checks, parameter perturbations, and matched CalculiX FEA, plus 150 body pairs tested on joint grounding and kinematic verification.

AI plugin for existing CAM packages that generates machining strategies and toolpaths for 3 axis and 3+2 axis CNC parts, with physics based feeds and speeds and instant machinability feedback.

3D CAD and systems engineering platform from Dassault Systèmes for designing, simulating, and engineering products and connected systems.

44 hierarchical Verilog modules, 89 injected-bug debug cases, and 132 reference-model tasks; the best model scores around 30% on generation.

NVIDIA's domain eval (88-question RAG benchmark, EDA-script generation, bug summarization); data never released, citable as a reference only.

64 OpenCores-derived targets (cores, FPU, I2C, CORDIC) testing hierarchical, cross-module RTL interaction via equivalence checking and simulation.

AI-powered electronics design platform that generates schematics and bills of materials from architecture-level requirements.

Long-horizon visual-to-symbolic circuit reasoning (grounding, topology, equations, answer) in full analysis chains rather than single VQA.

AutoReview is an AI peer checker that reads native CAD geometry and 2D drawings against team standards, annotates findings in context, and feeds an AI knowledge graph of lessons learned.

Hosted electronics design agent with an open-source terminal CLI that reviews boards and edits KiCad schematics and PCBs through chat or MCP.

Nexus is an AI agent for CAD, simulation, and PLM tasks that automates drawing creation, simulation setup, troubleshooting, and design validation inside the tools engineers already use.

Agentic AI platform from CraftifAI that automates embedded software development for edge, IoT, and AI devices, consolidating fragmented toolchains into one workflow for hardware optimized code generation, firmware and driver generation, and AI and ML deployment.

Parametric 3D CAD platform from PTC that combines modeling, real time simulation, model based definition, and manufacturing workflows in one environment.

3DEXPERIENCE ENOVIA ships AI-driven workflows with Virtual Companions for knowledge, engineering reasoning, and materials science in collaborative product development.

Cloud AI autorouter for PCB routing, usable through a KiCad plugin or web upload, built around a reinforcement-learning routing engine aimed at DRC-clean output.

46-part benchmark where the agent reviews a CAD part for manufacturability and redesigns via verified edit sequences, scored by chamfer distance to reference.

Dimension AI reverse-engineers 2D drawings and STEP files into editable parametric CAD with the feature tree intact, then applies plain-language edits as changesets the engineer reviews before applying.

AI agents that read code-based PCB schematics, cross-reference datasheets, and generate optimized designs compatible with Altium, KiCad, and Cadence Allegro.

BuildOS uses AI that reasons over structured manufacturing data to sequence assemblies from CAD, generate 3D animated work instructions, and propagate engineering changes to the floor.

AI plugin for SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor that converts 3D CAD models into fabrication-ready 2D drawings with auto-dimensioning.

Smart feature detection auto-generates ASME Y14.5-2018 compliant 2D drawings with GD&T from CAD models, with bi-directional SolidWorks sync.

Duro Design is an AI-native, API-first PLM with built-in AI for validations, impact analysis, metadata, and sourcing, plus CAD plugins for Altium, SolidWorks, Onshape, and NX.

Web based EDA platform with schematic capture, PCB design, circuit simulation, large free component libraries, and one click PCB ordering.

LLM embedded system development on Arduino, ESP32, ESP-IDF, Pico, and MicroPython with pass@1 plus cross-platform porting tasks.

Head-to-head of 27 models on 8 ESP32 scenarios (sensor to cloud/DB) for functional correctness and instruction-following; a study, not a reusable artifact.

Described as a plain-English to schematic and PCB layout tool that exports KiCad netlists, runs local LLMs, and supports multiple MCUs.

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Commercial AI firmware platform whose agents read datasheets and schematics, write and port part specific drivers, and compile, flash, debug, and validate code on real hardware or in SIL and HIL tests across STM32, Espressif, Nordic, NXP, and Infineon ecosystems.

Electronics-design agent harness that initializes a circuit workspace and runs an autonomous design loop producing KiCad schematic and PCB output.

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Flow Agents run impact analysis, check requirements coverage, and verify requirements against CAD, simulation, code, and test across a connected model of the hardware program.

Browser-based ECAD platform that designs schematics and PCBs in the cloud, with an AI design agent that builds layouts from text prompts and live component data.

Platform that detects features from 3D CAD and auto-generates GD&T drawings, process plans, and technical documentation.

A CAD benchmark from Normal Research's CAD Arena that scores how well AI agents recreate real parts across CAD tools; it is a benchmark, not a generative product.

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Siemens purpose built autonomous AI agent that plans and orchestrates multi tool workflows across semiconductor, 3D IC and PCB system design, including Xpedition PCB layout and HyperLynx analysis, with self verifying workflows against physics based EDA engines

Cloud based product development platform from Autodesk that combines CAD, CAM, CAE, PCB design, and data management in one workspace.

924 tasks over Verilog RTL and firmware C covering 76 hardware-relevant CWEs with executable tests, scoring secure code generation.

AI autocomplete that lives inside Fusion and SolidWorks, predicting design intent and proposing sketch constraints and dimensions as one-keystroke suggestions.

Browser-based AI PCB designer that turns plain-language descriptions into schematic, layout, and fabrication files as real KiCad files you keep.

Jama Connect Advisor scores requirements against INCOSE and EARS rules at authoring time, and the Jama Connect MCP Server exposes the traceability model to external AI agents.

Software defined electronics platform where an approved AI writes and revises Python design code locally while JITX generates schematics, board structures and routing, dispatches HFSS simulations and runs checks for high frequency boards