AI Enabling New Mindset for Electronics R&D

Sergiy Nesterenko

Founder and CEO
Quilter

PCB design bottlenecks are slowing your team down

Electronics breakthroughs happen through iteration—testing ideas, failing fast, and trying again. Manual PCB design workflows are slowing down progress, delaying prototypes, and causing missed deadlines.

Valuable engineering hours spent waiting for designs or doing manual design are better spent on testing and improving designs.

This webinar will show how physics-driven computational PCB design and rapid prototyping services can eliminate common PCB bottlenecks and speed up your R&D workflows.

PCB layout is holding back innovation

PCB layout is one of the biggest bottlenecks in electronics R&D.

• Prototypes take too long to design and test.
• Routine tasks consume valuable engineering time.
• Layout delays slow down product development.

Engineers shouldn’t spend time designing PCBs, yet you can’t afford to wait. You need working hardware to test and improve.

This webinar will show how AI-driven tools like Quilter can reduce layout time from weeks to hours, and how rapid prototyping services from Sierra Circuits can deliver fully assembled boards in as little as five days.

Introducing Development Mode

Traditional PCB workflows are built around production-ready optimization, prioritizing cost and quality. These workflows work well for mature products, but they slow down early-stage R&D, where rapid iteration and testing are critical.

Development Mode is a different approach.

It prioritizes speed and learning over perfect optimization, allowing teams to:

• Iterate faster.
• Test prototypes sooner.
• Make more informed decisions earlier.

Think of it like continuous integration in software development. Instead of waiting for a perfect design, you continuously compile PCB layouts at every stage of your project. This enables faster testing cycles, reduces risks, and catches problems early.

Your current workflows might feel safe, but are they working? Instead PCBs, you should be focused on testing, iterating, and moving faster. Every iteration cycle is an opportunity to best the competition; the more opportunities, the better.

Who should watch

This webinar is for everyone responsible for delivering hardware prototypes and keeping R&D timelines on track. If you and your team rely on PCB outputs to support prototyping, testing, and validation, this session will show you how to remove bottlenecks and improve productivity.

• R&D teams: Keep prototyping and testing timelines on track without overloading your team.
• Product teams: Ensure your team delivers faster, without adding headcount or relying on outsourcing.
• Engineering managers: Free engineers from manual PCB tasks so they can focus on higher-value work.
• Test engineers and leads: Reduce delays in test board delivery and speed up validation cycles.

If your success relies on what you do with PCB outputs, this webinar will show you how to remove bottlenecks and stay ahead of the competition.

What you’ll learn:

• How AI-driven design tools like Quilter can reduce PCB layout time from weeks to hours.
• How Sierra Circuits’ rapid prototyping services can deliver fully assembled boards in five days.
• How to adopt Development Mode to speed up your R&D process and stay competitive.

Meet the presenter

Sergiy Nesterenko, Founder and CEO of Quilter

Sergiy Nesterenko is the Founder and CEO of Quilter, which helps hardware companies save valuable engineering time by automating circuit board design. Before founding Quilter, Sergiy worked as a Sr. Radiation Effects engineer at SpaceX where he was responsible for Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy second stage. Sergiy graduated from U.C. Berkley with a triple major in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry. He also plays guitar, practices Krav Maga, and a proud Dad to two young kids.