Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.-based artificial intelligence (AI) software startup Astrus says it has closed $8 million USD ($11 million CAD) in seed funding to help semiconductor companies automate the design of analog circuits for advanced microchips.

“Every breakthrough in human progress, from curing diseases to exploring space, depends on faster, more efficient computation.”

Astrus co-founder and CEO Brad Moon claimed to BetaKit in an email that physical layout is “the hardest, most time-consuming, and most costly part of chip design, especially for custom analog and mixed-signal circuits.” With its AI-powered software, Astrus hopes to automate this process.

While Astrus is still in research and development mode at the moment, Moon says the company is already engaged in discus

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