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ESS has mapped and imaged many ships off the eastern seaboard, some sunk by U-boats during WW1 and WW2. The images and data collected are excellent.

This would require repetitive SPICE simulations, or basic rule checking at the very least. Nobody does full SPICE simulations at the board level however basic input/output port checking (usually in the ERC check) does get performed. Even with RF designs, you carve out the piece you need to examine or design and simulate that. For the chips I've worked on, the full chip would get a SPICE simulation that would take days/weeks but this was for more R+D oriented mixed signal designs. I guess what I'm saying is the simulation of a circuit is best performed as a deliberate, iterative step in the circuit design process.

When it comes to layout however, you do get hints from the DRC checking tool (Design Rule Constraints) that will tell you if your trace is drawn incorrectly based on the DRC constraints and nowadays sometimes from an EM simulation that can be run in the background.

Completely automated design especially for analog will most likely never be a thing for the other reasons you list. However, I already can use "known good" circuits and modularize them for reuse which does speed things up. This is critical in the ASIC world due to the large hierarchies in the design. Modular reuse is also a growing tool in the PCB world. Cadence now has a very nice module/reuse tool that can even detect and create modules to prevent you from having to redraw the layout for a sub-circuit multiple times if its not instantiated as a module already. I always like when more people want to get involved in HW, but what the OP is showing largely exists in the form of TCL and SKILL scripts in current EDA SW packages.

1) Noise is an issue as the system gets complex. You can't get away with counting to 1 anymore, all those levels in between matter. 2) Its hard to make an analog computer reconfigurable. 3) Analog computers exist commercially believe it or not, but for niche applications and essentially as coprocessors.

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Efficiency gains in a process certainly create extra "resources" whatever they might be. But I do applaud you for not saying "we need immigration because we need ethnic food" like most people say nowadays.

Pay a country's people more so that they have more time/resources to dedicate to making a family. Even better, incentivize families. Or is that too expensive for bankers?

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I've been yelled at by him before on 14.275, about 15 years ago. He's still at it.