What if hardware development could look more like software development? 

The last fifty years were a golden age for software development. We made it easier and easier to write code, moving away from punch cards to high-level programming languages like Python that abstract away the hard parts. At the root of this is the software REPL, or the read, evaluate, and print loop. I can write code in my terminal, watch it run, and immediately see it break. I know exactly what's wrong with the stack, can trace the problem, and then fix it. We have built a huge ecosystem of tooling around this, so it's become incredibly easy to develop software.

The loop for hardware engineering is orders of magnitude slower. You design a circuit, simulate it, and inevitably run into issues with testing. You don't know if it's with how you did the test, fundamental to the circuit, or other interference. You enter this endless cycle of testing and debugging. What's taking seconds and minutes in software is taking months in hardware. 

At Arena, we've built Atlas. Atlas is an AI hardware engineer. It's an expert partner that helps hardware engineers design, test, debug, and build cutting-edge hardware. It takes the hardware REPL and makes it 1000x shorter. This is possible because Atlas is grounded in applied physics and has a full understanding of the engineer's real world context. Atlas accumulates experience as it works with you so you effectively have an engineer who's continuing to learn through experience and has access to all of the documents and data sheets for your device. 

What Atlas is becoming is an engineer with an incredibly deep understanding of how a system works - thousands of years of understanding - which means we'll enter an era where machines will be able to self diagnose, self repair, and then self heal. At Arena, we're incredibly excited to play a small role here in powering the future of hardware.

We’re growing the team and hiring for multiple roles from Machine Learning to Electrical Engineering! Learn more on our Careers page.

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