CELUS Design Platform

CELUS GmbH is an electronics design automation company headquartered in Munich, Germany, with offices in Porto, Portugal and Austin, Texas. It was founded by a team of engineers to shorten the early phase of hardware development, where engineers spend days translating requirements into architectures, schematics and component choices.

The CELUS Design Platform uses a multi-agent AI architecture, with orchestrator, intent capture, design planner, design checker, design verifier and alternatives agents. A requirements assistant asks questions until the design intent is complete, then the platform matches trusted reference designs and produces an editable schematic and a bill of materials with supply chain data and alternates. Output opens in Altium, Cadence, Siemens, Fusion or KiCad. For component manufacturers and distributors, live catalogue data is connected over MCP and a parts recommender agent proposes their parts in suitable designs. Partners named on the site include NXP, BrainChip, Alif Semiconductor, Edge Impulse, AGS Devices and Variscite.

• Requirements assistant: asks questions until the design intent is complete.
• Reference design matching: assembles trusted building blocks that stay fully editable.
• Schematic and BOM output: BOM with supply chain data and alternates.
• ECAD export: opens in Altium, Cadence, Siemens, Fusion or KiCad.
• Multi-agent AI: planner, checker, verifier and alternatives agents work together.
• Manufacturer channel: live catalogue data via MCP and a parts recommender agent.

A Vietnamese IoT company can turn a product brief into a first schematic and costed BOM within a day. A regional component distributor can use the platform to help customers design in its product lines. A university lab can prototype edge AI boards around new processors such as BrainChip or Alif devices.

Engineers move from a written requirement to an editable schematic and BOM much faster, and AGS Devices says its customers generate schematics and BOMs in under an hour. Designs start from trusted reference designs, lowering the risk of early mistakes. BOMs include supply chain data and alternates from the start. Chip makers and distributors gain a channel to place their parts into new designs.

Semiconductor vendors increasingly compete to win designs early, while engineering teams want AI help to explore architectures quickly. Edge AI and IoT products multiply the number of new board designs. Vietnam and Southeast Asia are adding electronics design capacity alongside manufacturing, and platforms that bundle reference designs and sourcing data help smaller teams and local distributors.

CELUS GmbH is registered at the Munich local court (HRB 254386), Ridlerstr. 57, Munich, with offices in Porto and Austin. The platform became available worldwide in August 2024. It is part of the NVIDIA Inception Program and has partnerships with BrainChip, Alif Semiconductor, Edge Impulse, Atlantik Elektronik and AGS Devices.