Hi,
EE here, but started my career as unskilled labor in a test lab. This is in contrast to my colleagues who are often physicists.
I love the graphical nature of Schematic design. It helps me visualise problems that my colleagues would admittedly rather code. I take a lot of care in my schematic layout, and it can help me make a good guess as to wether my circuit is planar or not. - usefull when you dont want to incurr the parasitics on a via somewhere.
I would also remark that there is no reason why design reuse would necessitate a text based caprure. We already have reuse though subsheet heirachy, ctrl c/ctrl c and to some degree reference designs.
The only other thing I would add is that a lot of people come from a hobbyist background, which means small volumes. For commercial contract manufacturing, drawing out the same old schematic features for voltage regulators doesnt add up to much NRE as a fraction of the project cost.
Well designed schematics are great. Especially if you are sharing them with your team as documentation.
The point we would like to move towards is one where atopile enables you to generate high quality documentation about your design in a similar fashion to a datasheet but not entangling the documentation with the source design, which is what a schematic forces you to do. There are some features we'd want to build that could enable that like a visualizer for important parts of a schematic, a fan out view of the consumed interfaces around a chip, the results of a spice simulation...
I love the graphical nature of Schematic design. It helps me visualise problems that my colleagues would admittedly rather code. I take a lot of care in my schematic layout, and it can help me make a good guess as to wether my circuit is planar or not. - usefull when you dont want to incurr the parasitics on a via somewhere.
I would also remark that there is no reason why design reuse would necessitate a text based caprure. We already have reuse though subsheet heirachy, ctrl c/ctrl c and to some degree reference designs.
The only other thing I would add is that a lot of people come from a hobbyist background, which means small volumes. For commercial contract manufacturing, drawing out the same old schematic features for voltage regulators doesnt add up to much NRE as a fraction of the project cost.