Flux AI

Flux AI is an AI tool by Flux for designing printed circuit boards (PCBs) in the browser, acting as a hardware engineer that proposes, draws and reviews the design for electronics engineers, hardware startups and product teams.

What is Flux AI and what can it design?

It covers the whole board workflow: brainstorming, planning, schematic capture, component placement and automatic routing, including differential pairs, RF traces and power nets. It supports multilayer boards up to eight layers and also helps with enclosure design, simulation and firmware. When you are done it exports Gerbers, drill files, bill of materials, pick-and-place data and netlists.

How does the AI work inside the editor?

You describe what you need and the agent reads component datasheets, sizes passives, pull-ups and decoupling capacitors, and runs rule checks before manufacturing. While you choose parts it shows distributor availability and lead times.

• Project import from Altium, KiCad, Eagle, Fusion Electronics, EasyEDA, OrCAD/Allegro, PADS, CADSTAR, DipTrace, Proteus or SOLIDWORKS PCB, plus IPC-2581 and IDF.
• Real-time collaboration on the same project, with per-project permissions.
• Encryption in transit and at rest, SOC 2-aligned infrastructure and single sign-on (SSO).

Flux AI pros and cons

Pros: nothing to install, it speeds up repetitive electronics design work and it lets you migrate projects from the most common EDA tools. Cons: AI usage is metered in compute units that run out on large projects, the interface and docs are in English only, and like any assistant its proposals must be reviewed by an experienced engineer before the board goes to the fab. After the evaluation period, an unpaid account can only interact with public projects.