Siemens Digital Industrial Software Company will acquire American EDA software developer Excellicon. This move will incorporate Excellicon's leading software for developing, validating, and managing timing constraints into Siemens' EDA software product portfolio for integrated circuit design.
Excellicon was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Laguna Mountain, USA, dedicated to developing timing constraint tools for digital design and validation workflows. Siemens stated that the transaction is expected to be completed within a few weeks, and specific terms have not been disclosed yet.
This acquisition enables Siemens to provide innovative implementation and validation process methods, enabling system on chip (SoC) designers to optimize power consumption, performance, and area (PPA), and accelerate design convergence through timing convergence.
At the same time, Siemens emphasizes that the success rate of one-time wafer fabrication is decreasing, from 24% in 2022 and 32% in 2020 to 14% in 2024. Timing convergence is a key challenge in the design of more complex chips.
Effective timing constraint management is crucial for the overall success of semiconductor system level chip design, "said Mike Ellow, CEO of Siemens EDA. Excellicon's constraint validation and management solution complements Siemens' existing EDA products and extends our product portfolio to key niche markets such as Questa, Tessent, Aprisa, and PowerPro processes. ”
Excellicon's tools cover temporal constraint writing, compilation, validation, formal validation, and management, using a multimodal approach to connect early design concepts with physical implementations. This provides in-depth insights into optimizing layout and timing partitioning schemes. MediaTek, Renesas Electronics, Socionext, and LG Electronics have all used these tools and incorporated them into the tooling process of Samsung's OEM factories.
These tools will be integrated into the implementation and validation process.
We are delighted to join Siemens and bring our knowledge and expertise in temporal constraint management to the wider Siemens EDA community, "said Himanshu Bhatnagar, CEO of Excellicon. Working together, we will be able to provide more comprehensive process coverage, enabling our customers to bring powerful innovations to market faster and overcome the growing complexity challenges of the integrated circuit industry
