- - Acquisition to digitally transform design-test workflows and meet productivity requirements of next-generation electronic product development lifecycles
- - Cliosoft’s revision-control and data and IP management capabilities natively integrate with Keysight’s PathWave Advanced Design System
- - Customers to benefit from broader EDA ecosystem with Keysight and Cliosoft continuing to support all the major EDA vendor environments to facilitate best-in-class tool workflows
Cliosoft’s SOS software is used by more than 400 customers worldwide to manage electronic design data and intellectual property.
SANTA ROSA, Calif. February 23, 2023
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced it has acquired Cliosoft and will be adding the company's line of hardware design data and intellectual property (IP) management software tools to its portfolio of electronic design automation (EDA) solutions.
Since its inception, Cliosoft's primary focus has been managing design data, including functional IP blocks used in integrated circuits. Cliosoft's products expand Keysight's EDA software offering to include process and data management (PDM) capabilities that have been adopted by more than 400 global semiconductor and electronics systems customers.
By bringing Cliosoft into its EDA business, Keysight boosts its intelligent automation software offerings with PDM as an essential component in building the foundation for more productive workflows. Keysight is extending Cliosoft's capabilities to include test data in a fabric that provides customers with a much stronger link between design and test.
Keysight and Cliosoft are long-standing industry collaborators as Cliosoft SOS, a data management platform, already integrates with Keysight's Advanced Design System (ADS) solution which many mutual customers currently use. The combined companies will continue to offer revision control and data and IP management solutions through EDA industry relationships, including Cadence, Empyrean, MathWorks, Siemens EDA, Silvaco, and Synopsys environments.
Keysight and Cliosoft share the philosophy that PDM is critical to first pass success of customer designs in global engineering enterprises. Design complexity is expanding the volume of IP blocks and data that engineering teams must effectively and efficiently manage. Industry trends such as heterogeneous integration, advanced packaging, and 24x7 follow-the-sun research and development operations are driving customers towards the next level of productivity improvements.
Niels Faché, Vice President and General Manager of Keysight EDA, said: "One of our top business priorities is creating digital, connected workflows from design to test that accelerate customers' digital transformation. We see a tremendous opportunity in the PDM space to leverage Cliosoft's current capabilities combined with our design-test solutions expertise. Adding PDM solutions to the portfolio is a natural progression of our open EDA interoperability strategy to deliver best-in-class tools and workflows in support of increasingly complicated product development lifecycles. Cliosoft offers proven software tools that enable product teams to perform data analytics and accelerate time to insight. The result of faster insight and greater reuse is improved productivity in the verification phase and shorter overall development cycles."
Srinath Anantharaman, Chief Executive Officer of Cliosoft, said: "Handling exponential growth in design data and maximizing IP reuse with interoperability across EDA vendor environments is a major challenge as we approach the time of 'More than Moore's law'. Keysight's broad industry leadership in applications like 5G and 6G communications, automotive, and aerospace and defense, makes Keysight uniquely positioned to realize the promise of connecting design, emulation, and test data in streamlined workflows that speed time-to-market. We are excited to join Keysight in raising engineering productivity to the next level and enabling our customers to digitally transform their development lifecycles and meet the challenges ahead."
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This transaction has no material impact on Keysight's guidance for the current quarter and/or fiscal year. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
About Keysight Technologies
Keysight delivers advanced design and validation solutions that help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Keysight's dedication to speed and precision extends to software-driven insights and analytics that bring tomorrow's technology products to market faster across the development lifecycle, in design simulation, prototype validation, automated software testing, manufacturing analysis, and network performance optimization and visibility in enterprise, service provider and cloud environments. Our customers span the worldwide communications and industrial ecosystems, aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, semiconductor and general electronics markets. Keysight generated revenues of $5.4B in fiscal year 2022. For more information about Keysight Technologies (NYSE: KEYS), visit us at www.keysight.com.
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Acquisition Backgrounder
Keysight Technologies - a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers, and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world has completed the acquisition of Cliosoft, headquartered in Fremont.
About Cliosoft
Cliosoft was founded in 1997 and has a rich history of pioneering design data and IP management solutions. The company currently has offices on three continents. Keysight has partnered with them for some time as Cliosoft data management tools are already integrated into Keysight’s PathWave ADS just like integrations Cliosoft has with other EDA industry providers, including Cadence, Empyrean, MathWorks, Siemens EDA, Silvaco, and Synopsys environments.
About Keysight EDA
Keysight’s EDA industry heritage goes back more than 40 years and includes technical innovation, customer support, and training. We infuse our powerful, accurate, and easy to-use design and validation solutions with not only advanced simulation techniques, but also critical measurement science know-how from over 80 years of test industry experience.
The Keysight EDA tool suite includes system simulation, schematic entry, circuit simulation and layout, and device modeling. While the workflow is RF, high-frequency centric, Keysight EDA also provides high-speed digital design, offering a portfolio of design and simulation tools that supports end-to-end design-test workflows.
Why did Keysight purchase Cliosoft?
As Keysight expands its software footprint to help engineers and scientists design, simulate, and test new ideas, the need to connect the design with physical testing while managing the substantial volume of associated data is rapidly increasing. Our customers are looking for a complete solution to their process and data management (PDM) needs that includes revision control as well as IP and data management. This acquisition enables Keysight to expand its wider product set and capabilities to more customers and leverage the unique capabilities of Cliosoft’s data and IP management solutions.
Cliosoft’s technology is already integrated with Keysight PathWave Advanced Design System (ADS) and adds critical elements to Keysight’s PDM layer for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) solutions as well as our Design and Test workflow solutions. With Cliosoft products, Keysight will empower design teams to collaborate more effectively, elevate their designs, efficiently reuse intellectual property, and reduce the design cycle time by quickly comparing two versions of schematics and highlighting the differences directly in their design tools.
Cliosoft will become part of Keysight’s PathWave Software Solutions Group, led by VP and general manager Niels Faché.
Why did Cliosoft sell to Keysight?
Cliosoft views Keysight as the company most uniquely positioned to deliver on the promise of connected, agile design-test workflows. These workflows are essential to ensure first pass success for complex electronic products.
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