December 3, 2025
Plano, Texas, USA
"Certus Semiconductor has accelerated its IP development process using Siemens’ industry-leading EDA tools,” said Stephen Fairbanks, chief executive officer, Certus Semiconductor. “Analog is at the very core of what we design, and its quality cannot be compromised for the mission-critical applications we support. Our collaboration with Siemens enables us to enhance our methodologies tremendously with its custom IC verification technologies to keep pace with the increasing challenges of advanced process nodes and market demand for our products and services.”
"Certus' successful deployment of Solido Custom IC solutions across its workflow validates that AI is a game changer for mission-critical analog and radio frequency designs at advanced process nodes," said Amit Gupta, senior vice president and general manager, Siemens EDA, Siemens Digital Industries Software. "By bringing AI-powered performance and optimization to the entire workflow, we enable design teams to accelerate development for automotive, aerospace, and industrial applications—while maintaining the precision and reliability these markets demand."
As a GlobalFoundries IP Alliance partner, Silicon Catalyst in-kind partner and recently inducted TSMC Open Innovation Platform Alliance partner, Certus specializes in specialty ESD solutions for radio frequency (RF), transceiver and high-voltage applications, multi-protocol IOs, RF radios and analog IPs including data converters, oscillators and regulators, with proven success with radiation-hard, automotive grade, low-power and area efficient customizations.
Certus has successfully deployed its solutions across major foundry technologies using Solido™ Design Environment for nominal and variation-aware design verification, Solido™ Characterization Suite for .lib production and verification, Solido™ IP Validation Suite for IP quality assurance across design views, and Solido™ Simulation Suite for SPICE-accurate verification, all of which are part of Siemens’ AI-powered Solido Custom IC solutions.
To learn more about the technologies that Certus Semiconductor will use to accelerate semiconductor design innovation, visit https://eda.sw.siemens.com/en-US/ic/solido/
Siemens Digital Industries Software helps organizations of all sizes digitally transform using software, hardware and services from the Siemens Xcelerator business platform. Siemens' software and the comprehensive digital twin enable companies to optimize their design, engineering and manufacturing processes to turn today's ideas into the sustainable products of the future. From chips to entire systems, from product to process, across all industries. Siemens Digital Industries Software – Accelerating transformation.
Note: A list of relevant Siemens trademarks can be found here. Other trademarks belong to their respective owners.
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Plano, Texas, USA
- - Leading fabless semiconductor company uses Siemens’ electronic design automation (EDA) toolset to speed design verification for precision analog designs and boost reliability of next-generation IP
"Certus Semiconductor has accelerated its IP development process using Siemens’ industry-leading EDA tools,” said Stephen Fairbanks, chief executive officer, Certus Semiconductor. “Analog is at the very core of what we design, and its quality cannot be compromised for the mission-critical applications we support. Our collaboration with Siemens enables us to enhance our methodologies tremendously with its custom IC verification technologies to keep pace with the increasing challenges of advanced process nodes and market demand for our products and services.”
"Certus' successful deployment of Solido Custom IC solutions across its workflow validates that AI is a game changer for mission-critical analog and radio frequency designs at advanced process nodes," said Amit Gupta, senior vice president and general manager, Siemens EDA, Siemens Digital Industries Software. "By bringing AI-powered performance and optimization to the entire workflow, we enable design teams to accelerate development for automotive, aerospace, and industrial applications—while maintaining the precision and reliability these markets demand."
As a GlobalFoundries IP Alliance partner, Silicon Catalyst in-kind partner and recently inducted TSMC Open Innovation Platform Alliance partner, Certus specializes in specialty ESD solutions for radio frequency (RF), transceiver and high-voltage applications, multi-protocol IOs, RF radios and analog IPs including data converters, oscillators and regulators, with proven success with radiation-hard, automotive grade, low-power and area efficient customizations.
Certus has successfully deployed its solutions across major foundry technologies using Solido™ Design Environment for nominal and variation-aware design verification, Solido™ Characterization Suite for .lib production and verification, Solido™ IP Validation Suite for IP quality assurance across design views, and Solido™ Simulation Suite for SPICE-accurate verification, all of which are part of Siemens’ AI-powered Solido Custom IC solutions.
To learn more about the technologies that Certus Semiconductor will use to accelerate semiconductor design innovation, visit https://eda.sw.siemens.com/en-US/ic/solido/
Siemens Digital Industries Software helps organizations of all sizes digitally transform using software, hardware and services from the Siemens Xcelerator business platform. Siemens' software and the comprehensive digital twin enable companies to optimize their design, engineering and manufacturing processes to turn today's ideas into the sustainable products of the future. From chips to entire systems, from product to process, across all industries. Siemens Digital Industries Software – Accelerating transformation.
Note: A list of relevant Siemens trademarks can be found here. Other trademarks belong to their respective owners.
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Siemens Digital Industries Software PR TeamEmail: press.software.sisw@siemens.com
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