EEVblog 1535 – DeepPCB AI AutoRouting FAIL!

2023/3/29

Is the AI Machine Learning based DeepPCB autorouter better than Dave at routing a simple double sided PCB? Let’s try it! TLDR; It sucks. Humans for the win.

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00:00 – DeepPCB AI AutoRouting?
03:29 – Autorouting is 90% placement, human powered!
03:53 – The marketing claims
05:22 – Ironically, Dave doesn’t have an Altium license.
05:39 – Let’s start
06:39 – Live update routing
07:41 – This is not looking good
08:13 – What would Dave do?
09:14 – Rip up and Retry
11:11 – AI is failing
12:20 – WTF is it doing!
14:39 – Choose your crappy solution
15:24 – After 24 hours, it FAILED, hard.
16:34 – This thing has no idea how to route a PCB
19:26 – This is just awful
20:27 – Human tips for routing
22:16 – To be fair, Altium isn’t much better.
23:24 – I can’t see any point in using this