We hear you! We're most certainly planning on eating up the system's chain to describe, version control and validate up the system's chain.
As one example in an earlier (and likely future) permutation of atopile we could compile harnesses (using the fantastic https://github.com/wireviz/WireViz) by linking two interfaces on connectors.
Long future, if you can integrate mechanically too, you can at least check if not generate the harnesses lengths, bend radii, drip looks etc... for that same harness.
Somewhat like software, you can only tractably do that at scale if the units work and work reliably. Unit tests are the basis of software validation and we expect hardware validation as well. We're starting low-level we know, but with a concepts we know (from the insane scale of big software projects) can work on enormous projects too.
As one example in an earlier (and likely future) permutation of atopile we could compile harnesses (using the fantastic https://github.com/wireviz/WireViz) by linking two interfaces on connectors.
Long future, if you can integrate mechanically too, you can at least check if not generate the harnesses lengths, bend radii, drip looks etc... for that same harness.
Somewhat like software, you can only tractably do that at scale if the units work and work reliably. Unit tests are the basis of software validation and we expect hardware validation as well. We're starting low-level we know, but with a concepts we know (from the insane scale of big software projects) can work on enormous projects too.