# Freeing EEs to Design Like Tony Stark

- Show: [Moore's Lobby](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby)
- Published: 2024-05-07
- Length: 55m
- Episode: 9
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby/2024-05-07-freeing-ees-to-design-like-tony-stark
- Listen: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/podcast/freeing-ees-to-design-like-tony-stark

## Summary

Tomide Adesanmi, co-founder and CEO of Circuit Mind, explains how his background designing head-worn displays for fighter pilots at BAE Systems revealed the inefficiencies of manual schematic design. He founded Circuit Mind to replace tedious spreadsheet work and datasheet searching with deterministic algorithms that generate optimized circuit schematics from block diagrams. Adesanmi details the platform's ability to explore millions of design combinations for cost, size, and power, positioning the tool as a 'circuit solver' that allows engineers to act as architects rather than manual drafters.

## Chapters

- [0:01](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby/2024-05-07-freeing-ees-to-design-like-tony-stark#t=1) Introduction and Adesanmi's Background
- [10:16](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby/2024-05-07-freeing-ees-to-design-like-tony-stark#t=616) The Problem with Manual Design and Anxiety
- [14:56](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby/2024-05-07-freeing-ees-to-design-like-tony-stark#t=896) Why Circuit Mind Uses Deterministic Algorithms
- [27:33](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby/2024-05-07-freeing-ees-to-design-like-tony-stark#t=1653) The Platform Workflow: Block Diagram to Schematic
- [38:26](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby/2024-05-07-freeing-ees-to-design-like-tony-stark#t=2306) Team Structure and Overcoming Skepticism
- [45:33](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby/2024-05-07-freeing-ees-to-design-like-tony-stark#t=2733) Future Vision and Career Advice

## Topics

- [EDA & CAD tools](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/eda-and-cad-tools)
- [Starting a product company](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/starting-a-company)
- [Careers & education](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/engineering-careers-and-education)

## Most relevant to

early-stage companies

## Mentioned

- Circuit Mind (company)
- BAE Systems (company)
- Altium (tool)
- KiCad (tool)
- STMicroelectronics (company)
- Apple Vision Pro (product)
- Oculus (product)
- Texas Instruments (company)

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- [205: Advances in Electronic Product Engineering Methods](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/product-startup/2023-12-14-205-advances-in-electronic-product-engineering-methods) (Product Startup)
- [CELUS: Simplifying Circuit Design with AI](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ontrack/2025-10-30-celus-simplifying-circuit-design-with-ai) (OnTrack)
- [From Block Diagram to Schematic in Minutes](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ontrack/2025-10-23-from-block-diagram-to-schematic-in-minutes) (OnTrack)
- [T-25-010 :  Ioannis Papamanoglou and Narayan Powderly - Engineers transforming how we design, test, and build hardware with atopile](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/tradeoffs/2026-01-01-t-25-010-ioannis-papamanoglou-and-narayan-powderly-engineers-transforming-how-we) (TRADEOFFS)
- [Intelligent Routing with Sergiy Nesterenko](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2023-04-03-intelligent-routing-with-sergiy-nesterenko) (The Amp Hour)

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