# Quilter

## Quilter

- [Welcome to Quilter](https://docs.quilter.ai/get-started/readme.md): Quilter streamlines PCB design with automated PCB layout, physics checks, and iterative design tools, reducing the time from concept to production.
- [Quickstart](https://docs.quilter.ai/get-started/quickstart.md): A concise guide covering the essential steps to quickly prepare and upload your schematic for automatic PCB layout generation with Quilter.
- [Why we're building Quilter](https://docs.quilter.ai/about-quilter/why-were-building-quilter.md): An overview of Quilter’s mission to streamline PCB layout through physics-driven automation, enabling engineers to rapidly explore, iterate, and optimize their designs.
- [Why should I use Quilter?](https://docs.quilter.ai/about-quilter/why-should-i-use-quilter.md): Key reasons to adopt Quilter’s AI-powered PCB layout automation, highlighting faster time-to-market, efficient iterative design, reduced errors, and optimized use of engineering talent.
- [How does Quilter work?](https://docs.quilter.ai/about-quilter/how-does-quilter-work.md): An overview of Quilter’s physics-driven approach to automated PCB layout, constraint handling, and validation.
- [What Quilter isn't](https://docs.quilter.ai/about-quilter/what-quilter-isnt.md): An explanation of Quilter’s role as a fully automated layout service, highlighting its workflow, scope, and limitations.
- [What Quilter does well](https://docs.quilter.ai/about-quilter/what-quilter-does-well.md): A concise summary of Quilter’s recommended applications and optimal design parameters.
- [FAQ](https://docs.quilter.ai/about-quilter/faq.md)
- [Placement Guide](https://docs.quilter.ai/guides/placement-guide.md): Getting the best results out of Quilter's Placement Engine
- [Introduction](https://docs.quilter.ai/using-quilter/introduction.md): An overview of Quilter’s automated PCB layout service, detailing workflow steps, integration with existing CAD tools, and evaluation criteria.
- [Design your schematic](https://docs.quilter.ai/using-quilter/design-your-schematic.md): Concise guidelines for preparing schematics compatible with Quilter, including supported CAD platforms and design best practices.
- [Prepare your input board file](https://docs.quilter.ai/using-quilter/prepare-your-input-board-file.md): Instructions for creating an input board file for Quilter, covering required elements, recommended constraints, and optional parameters.
- [Start a project](https://docs.quilter.ai/using-quilter/start-a-project.md): Instructions for using Quilter Projects
- [Upload your design files](https://docs.quilter.ai/using-quilter/upload-your-design-files.md): Instructions for uploading schematic, board, and project files to Quilter, including supported file formats, parsing validation, and file replacement procedures.
- [Select your stackup](https://docs.quilter.ai/using-quilter/select-your-stackup.md): Explanation of stackup options in Quilter.
- [Fabricator constraints](https://docs.quilter.ai/using-quilter/fabricator-constraints.md): Overview of Quilter’s fabrication rules, detailing how they define geometric constraints for manufacturability and ensure compliance with fabricator capabilities.
- [Define physics comprehensions](https://docs.quilter.ai/using-quilter/define-physics-comprehensions.md): An overview of Quilter’s Circuit Comprehension step, outlining how to define and validate physics constraints for your PCB layout.
- [Review and edit constraints](https://docs.quilter.ai/using-quilter/review-and-edit-constraints.md): An overview of Quilter’s Constraints step, outlining how to define and validate physics constraints for your PCB layout.
- [Submit your layout job](https://docs.quilter.ai/using-quilter/submit-your-layout-job.md): Instructions on submitting a layout job to Quilter, including naming your job, processing times, and receiving candidate results.
- [Review layout candidates](https://docs.quilter.ai/using-quilter/review-layout-candidates.md): Explanation of Quilter’s Candidate Review page, including evaluating successful and unsuccessful layout candidates, managing filters, and downloading results.
- [Overview](https://docs.quilter.ai/cad-compatibility/overview.md)
- [Altium](https://docs.quilter.ai/cad-compatibility/altium.md)
- [KiCAD](https://docs.quilter.ai/cad-compatibility/kicad.md)
- [Siemens Xpedition](https://docs.quilter.ai/cad-compatibility/siemens-xpedition.md)
- [Cadence Allegro](https://docs.quilter.ai/cad-compatibility/cadence-allegro.md)
- [Other CAD tools](https://docs.quilter.ai/cad-compatibility/other-cad-tools.md)
- [Zuken CR-8000](https://docs.quilter.ai/cad-compatibility/other-cad-tools/zuken-cr-8000.md)
- [EasyEDA](https://docs.quilter.ai/cad-compatibility/other-cad-tools/easyeda.md)
- [Overview](https://docs.quilter.ai/physics-constraints/overview.md): Explanation of how Quilter identifies, categorizes, and manages physics constraints during Circuit Comprehension, including automatic detection and manual specification.
- [Power Nets](https://docs.quilter.ai/physics-constraints/power-nets.md): Explanation of Quilter’s Power Net constraint, including automatic detection criteria, recommended naming conventions, default current values, and IPC-based validation methods.
- [Single-ended Impedance Control](https://docs.quilter.ai/physics-constraints/single-ended-impedance-control.md): Details on specifying and validating single-ended impedance-controlled nets, including supported impedances and calculation methods.
- [Differential Pairs](https://docs.quilter.ai/physics-constraints/differential-pairs.md): Instructions on defining differential pair constraints, including detection rules, limitations, supported impedances, and required fields.
- [Timing-sensitive Signals](https://docs.quilter.ai/physics-constraints/timing-sensitive-signals.md)
- [Bypass Capacitors](https://docs.quilter.ai/physics-constraints/bypass-capacitors.md): Guidelines for setting bypass capacitor constraints, including automatic detection criteria, recommended schematic practices, and required configuration details.
- [Crystal Oscillators](https://docs.quilter.ai/physics-constraints/crystal-oscillators.md): Instructions for defining crystal oscillator constraints, covering detection criteria, configuration fields, and current limitations.
- [Switching Converters](https://docs.quilter.ai/physics-constraints/switching-converters.md): Instructions for configuring switching converter constraints, covering detection criteria, supported configurations, and required fields.
- [Overview](https://docs.quilter.ai/physics-rule-checks-prcs/overview.md): Overview of Physics Rule Checks (PRCs) applied by Quilter to validate user-defined physics constraints.
- [Ground Plane Overlap](https://docs.quilter.ai/physics-rule-checks-prcs/ground-plane-overlap.md): Explanation of the Ground Plane Overlap PRC, verifying consistent ground coverage beneath impedance controlled signals to ensure signal integrity and minimize EMI.
- [Invalid Width Span](https://docs.quilter.ai/physics-rule-checks-prcs/invalid-width-span.md): Summary of the Invalid Width Span PRC, ensuring trace widths remain within acceptable tolerances for impedance control, current capacity, and EMI mitigation.
- [Layer Switch Count](https://docs.quilter.ai/physics-rule-checks-prcs/layer-switch-count.md): Summary of the Layer Switch Count PRC, verifying minimal via count between bypass capacitors and associated pins to maintain low impedance and effective decoupling.
- [Length Mismatch](https://docs.quilter.ai/physics-rule-checks-prcs/length-mismatch.md)
- [Overheated Length](https://docs.quilter.ai/physics-rule-checks-prcs/overheated-length.md)
- [Pin Distance](https://docs.quilter.ai/physics-rule-checks-prcs/pin-distance.md): Summary of the Pin Distance PRC, checking pin spacing to ensure short traces, reduced EMI, and improved routing efficiency.
- [Trace Path Length](https://docs.quilter.ai/physics-rule-checks-prcs/trace-path-length.md): Summary of the Trace Path Length PRC, validating trace lengths to minimize inductance, enhance noise filtering, and ensure efficient power and signal integrity.
- [Uncoupled Spacing](https://docs.quilter.ai/physics-rule-checks-prcs/uncoupled-spacing.md): Summary of the Uncoupled Spacing PRC, checking differential pair spacing to ensure effective electromagnetic coupling, consistent impedance, and minimal crosstalk.
- [Future PRC2s](https://docs.quilter.ai/physics-rule-checks-prcs/future-prc2s.md)
- [Top Plane Ground Pour](https://docs.quilter.ai/physics-rule-checks-prcs/future-prc2s/top-plane-ground-pour.md)
- [Neck Downs](https://docs.quilter.ai/physics-rule-checks-prcs/future-prc2s/neck-downs.md)
- [Trace Proximity](https://docs.quilter.ai/physics-rule-checks-prcs/future-prc2s/trace-proximity.md)
- [Overview](https://docs.quilter.ai/design-parameters/overview.md): Overview of Design Parameters available to constrain and specify Quilter-generated layouts.
- [Fabricators](https://docs.quilter.ai/design-parameters/fabricators.md): Explanation of Quilter’s fabricator profiles, including stack-ups, fabrication rules, compile targets, filtering options, and pre-supported manufacturers.
- [Stackups](https://docs.quilter.ai/design-parameters/stackups.md): Quilter generates PCB candidates using either the stackup from your files or standard stackups defined in partnership with top fabricators
- [Pre-placed components](https://docs.quilter.ai/design-parameters/pre-placed-components.md): Explanation of Quilter’s handling of pre-placed components, including reasons for pre-placement, supported scenarios, and instructions for locking positions.
- [Placement regions](https://docs.quilter.ai/design-parameters/placement-regions.md): Explanation of Quilter’s Placement Regions, including creation methods in Altium and Cadence, component associations, and instructions for constraining component placement.
- [Single-sided placement](https://docs.quilter.ai/design-parameters/single-sided-placement.md): Instructions for managing single-sided placement in Quilter, including automatic exploration, forcing double-sided layouts, and specifying single-sided constraints.
- [Pre-routed traces](https://docs.quilter.ai/design-parameters/pre-routed-traces.md): Instructions for managing pre-routed traces in Quilter, including reasons to pre-route, handling during layout, and specifying locked routing paths.
- [Preserved pours](https://docs.quilter.ai/design-parameters/preserved-pours.md)
- [Keepouts](https://docs.quilter.ai/design-parameters/keepouts.md): Summary of using Keepouts in Quilter to restrict placement and routing areas, including common uses and how to specify them in your CAD tool.
- [Net Widths by Layer](https://docs.quilter.ai/design-parameters/net-widths-by-layer.md): Explanation of Quilter’s Net Width constraint, detailing careful usage guidelines, potential conflicts with automatic constraints, and instructions for specifying custom widths.
- [Overview](https://docs.quilter.ai/candidate-review/overview.md): Overview of Quilter’s Candidate Review page, highlighting tools for exploring, inspecting, and iterating on layout candidates generated by Quilter.
- [Job details](https://docs.quilter.ai/candidate-review/job-details.md): Summary of Quilter’s Job Details, providing high-level metadata about submitted input files, configured parameters, and board previews for layout jobs.
- [Candidate details](https://docs.quilter.ai/candidate-review/candidate-details.md): Summary of Quilter’s Candidate Details, highlighting metadata used to sort, filter, and select layout candidates based on specific design criteria.
- [Filtering](https://docs.quilter.ai/candidate-review/filtering.md): Overview of Quilter’s filtering tools, describing automatic filter application, real-time candidate updates, and options to reset filters for candidate exploration.
- [Sorting](https://docs.quilter.ai/candidate-review/sorting.md): Overview of Quilter’s candidate sorting, detailing default sorting criteria for routing completion, fabrication rules, layer count, and future sorting enhancements based on PRC results.
- [Review phases](https://docs.quilter.ai/candidate-review/review-phases.md)
- [Detail view](https://docs.quilter.ai/candidate-review/detail-view.md): Overview of Quilter’s board detail viewer, describing controls for inspecting board layers, toggling visibility of objects by layer or globally, and navigating layout details.
- [Reviewing PRCs](https://docs.quilter.ai/reviewing-prcs.md): Overview of Quilter’s PRC reports, detailing how to interpret results grouped by constraint types, view passing and failing checks, and understand individual physics rule evaluations.
- [Edit & iterate](https://docs.quilter.ai/edit-and-iterate.md)
- [Job Actions](https://docs.quilter.ai/job-actions.md): Summary of Quilter’s Job Actions, describing available actions such as duplication for iteration, modification of constraints, and adjustments to design parameters.
- [Downloading candidates](https://docs.quilter.ai/downloading-candidates.md): Overview of downloading Quilter-generated layout candidates, including native file formats for offline review, and tracking downloaded jobs.
- [Page 1](https://docs.quilter.ai/pre-supported-fabs/page-1.md)
- [Glossary](https://docs.quilter.ai/even-more-docs/glossary.md)
- [User resources](https://docs.quilter.ai/even-more-docs/user-resources.md)


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