Why we're building autorouting.com

Open datasets and modern AI can solve autorouting once and for all!

We’re building autorouting.com as a central hub for open-source autorouting datasets and algorithms.

The State of Autorouting in 2024

In 2024 here’s where we’re at:

• There are very few people working in the public on autorouting algorithms, a notable exception being a single maintainer at freerouting

• There is virtually no published work on building autorouters using modern AI techniques

• There are very few, if any, large datasets of circuit boards with a corresponding fully-routed solution that can be used for training or tuning a modern algorithm

Why aren’t people working on autorouting?

• Hardware expertise and machine-learning/AI expertise is uncommon

• It currently takes hardware expertise just to understand the formats (such as Specctra DSN)

• It is difficult to find a large repository of routed circuit boards for training

How we’re doing it

We want to seed the ecosystem with large datasets that can be used to solve autorouting, as well as utilities to make it easy to parse and work with autorouting data, so that machine learning experts can jump in without needing to have hardware expertise.

More specifically:

• Develop datasets that can be used for evaluation and training of autorouters

• Develops standards for benchmarking autorouters for comparison

• Fund the development of open-source autorouting solutions

• Showcase both closed and open-source autorouters

• Develop open-source tooling and formats to make it easier to work with autorouters

Get Involved

Please reach out to autorouting@tscircuit.com or join our discord if you’re interested in working with us. We need help building datasets, utilities and autorouters themselves!

If you are someone who would be interested in purchasing an autorouting API, please reach out so we can connect you to great companies working on deploying autorouting solutions!

If you are an autorouting developer, we would love to benchmark or list your autorouter on autorouting.com, please reach out!