DRCY is Allspice's AI assistant for exploring, analyzing, and reviewing electronic designs. It works directly with your version-controlled design data in Allspice.
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DRCY has two main capabilities:
- DRCY Review: run a broad, systematic review of your design, helping surface any potential issues and blind spots you might not have thought to check.
- DRCY Chat: ask focused questions about your design, investigate concerns, trace connectivity, and generate reports through a flexible and steerable conversation. You decide what to ask and where to investigate at any time.
Use Review when you want to uncover the unknown unknowns. Use Chat when you have a specific question. The two capabilities are complementary and work well together during the design process.
What DRCY can do
- Surface potential issues through automated design review
- Explain circuits, trace nets, and locate components
- Check components against operating conditions and datasheet limits
- Generate reports, tables, and summaries from your design data
- Support follow-up and iterative refinement through conversation
When to use DRCY
DRCY works at any stage of an engineering workflow to help you investigate concerns and build a more complete understanding of a design.
Common use cases include:
- Catching issues that are easy to miss during manual review
- Getting broader review coverage without adding more reviewers
- Supporting senior engineers and teams working on many designs in parallel
- Understanding an unfamiliar design or exploring design options
- Investigating and analyzing specific design concerns in-depth
DRCY doesn’t replace engineering judgement. Verify the evidence and assumptions before changing or approving a design.
How DRCY works at a high level
When you add DRCY to a design review, it:
- Analyzes schematics using design context
- References component datasheets associated with parts
- Applies structured review prompts developed for hardware design
DRCY produces review comments with references back to schematic locations and datasheets so engineers can quickly evaluate each finding.
Where DRCY sources information from
DRCY draws on your design data like component attributes, pins, nets, and connectivity, along with available datasheet specifications, repository files, and context you provide in the conversation. You can also create and add a supplementary DRCY.md file to your repository to give DRCY reusable context about your design.
Pages in this section
- DRCY Review: how to run DRCY in a design review and work with findings
- DRCY Chat: how to use Chat, example prompts, and tips for useful outputs
- Best Practices for DRCY: getting the most out of DRCY
- Component Libraries with DRCY: understanding how DRCY uses datasheets to resolve components
- DRCY FAQs: common questions and issues related to DRCY