Nextech: Pioneering Product Development for Innovative Technologies

Nextech, a trailblazer in digital transformation and product development, has redefined efficiency, compressing months of traditional design into days through their focus on cutting edge technology and process integration. Committed to improving their technological advantage, Nextech sought a cutting-edge electronics design automation solution to further accelerate their workflow, enhance precision, and deliver innovative, market-ready products faster than ever.

Meet Mark Furiate, Nextech Chief Technology Officer with a Vision for Design Automation

Mark Furiate, Nextech’s CTO, spearheaded the initiative seeking an automation solution to slash design timelines without compromising quality. He turned to Circuit Mind’s ACE platform to automate the electronics design workflow.

“Traditional design methods were holding our vision back – weeks to iterate schematics and optimize BoMs meant we were always racing against the clock. We needed a solution that could deliver prototype designs in days, not weeks, without sacrificing quality.”

— Mark Furiate, Chief Technology Officer

Mark needed a solution that could deliver prototype designs quickly, integrate seamlessly with their eCAD tool Altium, and meet the stringent technical requirements of his clients.

Mark Partnered with Circuit Mind to Bring His Vision to Life

Rapid Delivery for an Advanced Remote Command, Control, and Monitoring System

When tasked with designing a control board for an Advanced Remote Command, Control, and Monitoring System, Mark turned to Circuit Mind’s ACE platform to automate the electronics design workflow. The project demanded precision and speed to meet tight deadlines while ensuring reliability for end-users. Circuit Mind delivered, transforming Mark’s concept into a production-ready design with a competitive edge in both speed and quality.

Critical Time Saved

For the Advanced Remote Command, Control, and Monitoring System, Mark’s team estimated an 12-day timeline to complete the design process using traditional methods. Circuit Mind’s ACE platform slashed this timeline significantly, delivering multiple designs in 3 days.

ACE enabled Mark and his team to move from requirements to optimised design architecture in minutes, generating schematics, BoMs, and verification reports for the digital and power portions of the circuit design. The final deliverables were seamlessly exported to Altium for design and layout.

The entire design process was completed in just 3 days, achieving a 75% time reduction.

Design Exploration & Optimisation

Time savings weren’t the only benefit – automation allowed Mark to explore multiple design candidates, optimizing for cost efficiency. In minutes, ACE evaluated billions of component combinations, generating designs that achieved significant savings.

ACE delivered optimized designs resulting in a reduction in component costs, while automated verification likely saved at least one costly respin.

Mark leveraged ACE to explore design options by adjusting functional block requirements, prioritizing cost optimization over size and power. He then selected the most cost-effective design to move forward, ensuring both efficiency and reliability.

New Productivity

By automating component research, selection, and compatibility verification, Circuit Mind unlocked significant productivity gains. For the Advanced Remote Command, Control, and Monitoring System project, Mark’s team gained an additional 8 days of valuable time compared to manual processes.

The Process

Here’s how Circuit Mind transformed Mark’s infrared sauna control board project.

Requirements Definition

The project kicked off in April of 2025. Mark collaborated with a Circuit Mind engineer to define requirements. Using a functional block diagram, they modeled the system in ACE, leveraging Circuit Mind’s global parts library to identify and source components, including specific parts outlined in Mark’s requirements.

Automated Schematic and BOM Generation

In minutes, ACE generated multiple fully functional and optimised schematics and BoMs, for the digital and power portions of the design, a process that typically took over a week with manual methods. Mark reviewed the options and selected the best design to move forward.

Export to Altium for Integration

The chosen schematic design was exported to Altium, complete with project files and symbols, ensuring seamless integration with Mark’s existing workflows. This allowed his team to move quickly into downstream processes like layout and manufacturing.

Procurement Analysis Generation and Optimisation

ACE ensured the selection of cost-effective components available in stock from trusted distributors, enabling precise cost estimates. This optimization contributed to the 15% component cost savings Mark achieved.

Verification Checks

ACE’s design algorithms ensured a mathematically correct design, and as a redundancy, the platform ran automated checks – interface pull-up checks, voltage margin checks, I2C address checks, derating checks, and more – to catch common errors, likely saving Mark’s team at least one respin.

Design for Derating

ACE generated a design with derated capacitors, temperature, and resistor power dissipation as specified. An auto-generated derating report provided Mark’s team with verification, ensuring reliability for the sauna control board.

About Nextech

Recognized as an industry leader in product development and innovation, Nextech has established itself as the trusted partner for organizations facing complex engineering challenges. The company's distinctive blend of strategic insight and technical depth enables clients to accelerate innovation cycles while minimizing risk. Through its comprehensive service portfolio and consultative approach, Nextech transforms how products are conceived, developed, and commercialized—consistently delivering exceptional outcomes that exceed client expectations and establish new benchmarks for excellence in the market.

About Circuit Mind

For technology leaders like Mark, where rapid prototyping and hardware optimization are mission-critical, Circuit Mind’s AI-powered design automation transforms complex electronics design into a fast, reliable process. Whether it’s cutting development cycles, validating concepts, or optimizing for size, cost, power, and reliability, Circuit Mind delivers — architecture to schematic in 60 seconds.

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