This simulates the chip but do I still have to write the simulation of my actual board which often has equally complex ICs on it and mixed analog and digital?
This. And Claude writes my firmware and does a pretty damn good job, and it can even test with a bench setup. So honestly, I don't think this simulator has much viability. It's a bitter message but I think the earlier they recognize this the better.
Unfortunately yes, we are limited in the mixed signal domain right now, that is by design. you would need to interact with ICs at a data level or pin level transactions. This would be digital levels nothing analog.
This was kind of part of our original offerings to have a firmware mixed signal co-simulation. Run firmware--> see Spice level simulations happen. But this was a case where the speed to fidelity trade off really didnt make sense... yet. We were spreading ourselves thin on a long horizon project with nothing to show for it during the YC term.
We will come to revisit this problem for sure as we have heard many of our customers ask similiar question for analog IC purposes. Just have to take it one step at a time.