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What caught your eye? (AI chip design, Intel 14A, Satellite services)
This week we're talking about AI for chip design, Intel considering a focus on its 14A foundry process, and the use of satellite data for public services...
Siemens applies AI across chip and PCB design portfolio
DAC 2025: There was a lot of talk about AI at this year’s DAC but one of the most significant was that Siemens Digital Industries Software has added generative and agentic AI capabilities across its EDA portfolio. The EDA AI system applies across all semiconductor and PCB design suites, including Questra, Tessent, Xpedition, Veloce, Catapult, Calibre, Aprisa and Solido. “It ...
Two software tools target efficient design of 2.5D and 3D ICs
Two software tools, Innovator3D IC and Calibre 3DStress, address chiplet integration and thermal management at the transistor level. Siemens Digital Industries Software announced the duo at DAC 2025. The Innovator3D IC suite advances 3D IC integration using AI to execute chip design and raise productivity, as designers increasingly reintegrate chiplets into high performance substrates, said the company. It enables IC ...
What caught your eye? (Excellion, AI ICs, Power op-amp, Nuclear batteries)
We're talking about Siemens Digital buying Excellicon, imec proposing reconfigurable AI ICs, an ADI power op-amp, and batteries for “frontier environments”...
Siemens Digital buys Excellicon
Siemens Digital Industries Software is to buy Excellicon the specialist provider of software for the development, verification, and management of timing constraints. The acquisition is intended to improve power, performance and area (PPA) in chips designed using Siemens’ EDA tools, to accelerate design closure, enhance functional and structural constraint correctness, improve productivity and address key gaps in the current workflows. ...
Questa One software uses AI to verify complex chip design
To address the fall in first-time silicon success rates, Siemens Digital Industries Software has announced the Questa One software suite. Consisting of four tools, the suite targets productivity in IC design using AI-powered automation to accelerate verification. According to Abhi Kolpekwar, vice president and general manager, Digital Verification Technologies, Siemens EDA, the increased complexity of asic and FPGA design means ...
Siemens and IFS certify tools
Siemens Digital Industries Software and Intel Foundry have announced tool certifications. Siemens’ Calibre nmPlatform tool is now certified for the Intel 18A PDK. Siemens’ Solido SPICE and Analog FastSPICE (AFS) software tools have been certified for the Intel 18A PDK. Siemens’ Calibre nmPlatform and its Analog FastSPICE (AFS) software, which is part of Siemens’ Solido Simulation Suite offerings, are also ...
Hardware Pioneers Video: Siemens and Crypto Quantique, discuss secure DFT Architecture
At Hardware Pioneers Max 2025 we caught up with Lee Harrison, Director of Product Marketing at Siemens, and Dr. Shahram Mossayebi, Founder and CEO of Crypto Quantique, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. They discuss how design for test is a critical part of any semiconductor, but with DFT requirements around the collection of in-life silicon health ...
What caught your eye? (Siemens Digital, Compound semis, 3D magnetic sensor)
Siemens Digital buying Downstream Technologies, the UK's Ministry of Defence putting £200m into compound semis, a 3D magnetic sensor, and the Satellite Applications Catapult simulating microgravity with a gravity offload system...