siliXon is taking aim at one of the slowest parts of hardware iteration: getting from an idea for a circuit to a manufacturable PCB.
The UK startup raised $1.5M in a round led by
System.One. Its product turns natural-language prompts into circuit-board designs, with the ambition of making electronics design feel closer to software iteration.
That matters because PCB design sits behind almost every robotics, industrial, IoT, and edge-AI product, but still depends on scarce engineering time and specialist tooling. A prompt-based workflow will not remove engineering judgment, but it could compress the early design loop for teams trying to prototype hardware faster.
The company was formed by University of Cambridge founders Mihai Mesteru and Ngoc Bach Nguyen, combining AI and electronic-engineering work from the Department of Engineering.
Quick factsπ
β founders: Mihai Mesteru; Ngoc Bach Nguyen
β total capital raised: $1.5M
β HQ: United Kingdom
β Investors:
System.One
The useful test is not whether AI can draw a board once. It is whether hardware teams can trust it enough to move more design intent into conversation.