AMIQ EDA

Type: Private Company
Industry: Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Semiconductors, Verification
Founded: 2003
Headquarters: Bucharest, Romania
Key People: Cristian Amitroaie (CEO & Co-Founder)
Employees: ~50+ (as of 2024)

🧹 Overview

AMIQ EDA is a privately held company specializing in tools and solutions for hardware design and verification, with a strong focus on SystemVerilog, UVM, and advanced verification methodologies. AMIQ is best known for its powerful Design and Verification Tools (DVT) Eclipse IDE, which enhances the productivity of chip designers and verification engineers.

The company caters to semiconductor, IP, and systems companies looking to streamline and scale their design and verification flows, with an emphasis on code quality, automation, and efficiency in modern digital IC development.

🏠 History

AMIQ was founded in 2003 by Cristian Amitroaie and a small team of engineers in Bucharest, Romania. The company initially offered consulting services and later transitioned to tool development based on challenges its founders experienced in real-world verification projects.

The release of AMIQ DVT IDE in the mid-2000s marked a shift toward product-driven growth. The tool has since become a widely adopted IDE for hardware verification languages, serving clients across Europe, North America, and Asia.

🛠️ Key Products

✨ DVT Eclipse IDE

• Flagship IDE for SystemVerilog, UVM, VHDL, Verilog, e Language, and PSS
• Features include:
  • Code navigation and intelligent autocomplete
  • UVM-aware code generation and linting
  • Integration with simulators and revision control
  • On-the-fly syntax and semantic checking
  • Documentation generation (e.g., HTML from source)
• Helps engineers comply with coding guidelines and debug faster

📊 Verissimo SystemVerilog Linter

• Automated code linting and style checks for SystemVerilog and UVM
• Enforces company-specific or industry coding guidelines
• Useful for onboarding and improving long-term maintainability

📑 Specador Documentation Generator

• Automatically extracts documentation from verification source code
• Helps teams maintain up-to-date specs without redundant manual documentation

🌍 Global Reach & Customers

AMIQ EDA works with clients across:

• Semiconductor companies
• IP vendors
• Systems OEMs
• Defense and aerospace industries
• Academic institutions and training centers

Its tools are often bundled or integrated with simulation platforms from Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens EDA, and open-source tools, making them broadly compatible and easy to integrate into existing workflows.

👥 Leadership & Culture

• Cristian Amitroaie, CEO and Co-founder, is known for his technical leadership in the verification ecosystem and frequent contributions to forums and conferences.
• The company promotes a culture of engineering excellence, knowledge sharing, and tight user-community engagement through blogs, whitepapers, and tutorials.
• AMIQ regularly contributes to open-source verification content and educational outreach through webinars and UVM training materials.

🔮 Strategic Focus

AMIQ EDA focuses on:

• Enhancing productivity in functional verification
• Reducing ramp-up time for new engineers
• Promoting maintainable, scalable, and reusable verification environments
• Supporting evolving standards (e.g., IEEE UVM, PSS, and Accellera initiatives)
• Tool interoperability and IDE-driven flows for shift-left verification

Company Website

Amiq EDA on SemiWiki

 

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