PCB Chat 157: Tomachie's CJ Clark Discusses AI-driven Schematic and Test Analysis

About this episode

CJ Clark discusses the AI-assisted analysis platform Tomachie and its impact on PCB design.

Tomachie has quite a few tricks up its sleeve. Its eponymous platform provides AI-assisted analysis of PCB schematic data. It optimizes DfT and identifies the ideal locations for physical test point insertion. And it generates a 0-100 layout-readiness score, providing design teams with an objective, data-driven metric. Tomachie is the brainchild of CJ Clark, a veteran test engineer with a background in JTAG and boundary scan technology, not to mention five patents under his belt. He is also CEO of Intellitech, Tomachie's sibling company. CJ spoke with Andy Shaughnessy about Tomachie, what AI can and can't do, and why he wishes his team had access to a tool like this 25 years ago.

People in this episode

Host: Andy Shaughnessy

Guest: CJ Clark

Topics covered

• AI-driven analysis
• PCB design
• test engineering
• schematic optimization
• DfT
• layout readiness

Keywords

• AI
• PCB
• schematic analysis
• test points
• DfT
• layout readiness score
• engineering

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tomachie, Intellitech

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