Flux for Enterprise: AI-Driven Hardware Design at Scale

80% of Fortune 500 companies already have employees using AI like ChatGPT for their everyday work and we’ve all seen how LLMs have been leveraged to write code. But, what about designing and building hardware?

We believe LLMs will revolutionize every step of the hardware development process from initial brainstorming all the way through production. From talking with dozens of enterprise customers across the industry, we’ve learned that you are also excited to leverage AI to streamline tedious tasks, access organization-wide knowledge, reduce design risks, and ultimately ship innovative products faster.

We also learned that enterprise customers are concerned about the security aspects of using an AI platform for hardware development. They want enterprise-grade security, privacy, and white-glove onboarding support. That’s why, today, we’re excited to be launching Flux for the Enterprise!

Unlocking AI for Enterprise

With Flux Enterprise, we’re finally bringing AI to hardware teams at enterprise companies with Flux Copilot. What is Flux Copilot? It’s conversational AI that lives in your project to augment your design workflow. Think of it like a senior EE that’s always available for you, 24/7.

What makes Flux Copilot different than generic LLMs like ChatGPT is that it has direct knowledge of your project’s bill of materials, netlist connections, datasheets, engineering knowledge, project requirements, and can even understand images like plots, charts, and technical diagrams - and that’s just the beginning.

Since we launched Copilot last year, it has been used by thousands of hardware teams to build PCBs for everything from industrial IoT to boards used in space! Some of our favorite enterprise use cases for Copilot include:

• AI Design Reviews: With Flux Enterprise, you can leverage Copilot to reduce design errors by reviewing your project, validating calculations, and double-checking component tolerances and limits. Learn more.
• AI Datasheet Comprehension: Directly utilize the wealth of data often hidden in the layers of dense technical documents. Learn more.
• Faster Design Iteration: Copilot can connect complex parts for you, explore design options, and provide a bill of materials for a target project.
• Find Alternate Parts: Copilot can offer tailored suggestions and analyze tradeoffs based on your project goals, constraints, and specifications.
• Supply Chain Management: Copilot can research your BOM and use its built-in integration for live part pricing and availability to help manage your project’s supply chain.
• AI Brainstorming: There are countless ways to brainstorm designs with Copilot, including uploading a block diagram and asking Copilot to recommend specific parts. Learn more.

Whatever your use case may be, there’s no doubt that it can improve your hardware workflow to save your organization time and money.

What’s in Flux Enterprise?

With Flux Enterprise, we’ve taken the power of Flux Copilot and Flux Organizations and optimized them for the needs of the enterprise world. We’re augmenting our tool with white-glove onboarding support and a slew of new, advanced security features including:

• Guest access controls
• Network access restrictions
• Dedicated account managers
• User provisioning through SCIMs
• Audit logs
• SAML single sign-on

We even generate SOC1 and SOC2 type 2 reports annually, so enterprises have transparency into the security measures protecting their work. The Flux Enterprise tier also allows us to support your specific needs.

Let’s revolutionize hardware design together!

We have an ambitious vision for Flux Copilot to unlock the vast human potential that is currently constrained by today’s EDA tools. We’re looking to partner with enterprise customers who are as excited as we are about pushing the boundaries of AI-driven hardware development.