Vulcan's Trials — GPU-Accelerated Auto-Placer & Auto-Router for KiCad

Vulcan's Trials

Unified, hardware-accelerated PCB Auto-Placer and 3D Negotiated-Congestion Auto-Router for KiCad 8, 9, and 10. Built in Rust with Vulkan WGSL compute shaders, native NVIDIA CUDA PTX kernels, and multithreaded CPU Parallel Tempering.

November 7, 2026 · 7 min · Alastair D'Silva