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Siemens EDA

Siemens EDA Wiki

Published by Admin on 01-08-2020 at 2:25 pm
Last updated on 07-10-2025 at 7:24 am

Siemens EDA (Siemens Digital Industries Software)

Type: Division of Public Company
Parent: Siemens Digital Industries Software (under Siemens AG)
Founded: Originated in Mentor Graphics (1981); acquired by Siemens in 2017, rebranded to Siemens EDA in 2021 Engineering.com+9Wikipedia+9Siemens Software Newsroom+9
Headquarters: Wilsonville, Oregon / Santa Clara, California, USA
Industry: Electronic Design Automation (EDA) for ICs, advanced packaging, and PCB systems design
Global Market Share (2024): ~13% in EDA (after Symbiosis of Mentor and internal tools)

🧠 Overview

Siemens EDA delivers a comprehensive portfolio spanning IC design, verification, manufacturing signoff, PCB and packaging, and system-level design. Emerging from Mentor Graphics’ robust EDA foundation, Siemens EDA is tightly integrated with Siemens’ broader Xcelerator platform, enabling cross-domain workflows across ME, PLM, and simulation environments. Siemens Press+4Siemens+4Siemens Digital Industries Software+4

🛠 Product Portfolio

IC Design and Verification

  • Analog FastSPICE – High-speed circuit simulation for analog, RF, mixed-signal, and custom digital circuits

  • Aprisa – Digital IC implementation targeting advanced nodes with detail-route-centric physical design

  • Calibre Design Solutions – Industry-leading IC signoff and DFM verification suite with reliability tools

  • Catapult – High-Level Synthesis (C++/SystemC to RTL) with built-in low-power and formal verification

  • Oasys‑RTL, PowerPro, mPower – Tools for RTL logic synthesis, power estimation, and integrity analysis

  • Questa One, Questa ADMS – Functional and mixed-signal verification with formal, coverage, and debug tooling

Custom IC, Silicon, Packaging & Scan

  • Tanner / S‑Edit & L‑Edit – Custom design toolchain for analog, MEMS, and “More‑than‑Moore” applications

  • Tessent – Silicon lifecycle management platform, including test, yield, and security analytics

  • Solido / Symphony – ML-powered variation-aware design, IP validation, and mixed-signal simulation

  • Veloce CS & Innexis – Hardware-assisted verification platforms (emulation, prototyping, FPGA-based) for system-level validation

PCB & System Design

  • Xpedition Enterprise, PADS Professional – Purpose-built PCB schematic-to-manufacturing flows with supply-chain integration, DFM checks

  • HyperLynx – Signal & power integrity analysis suite for high-speed digital routing and layout validation

Cloud & AI Tools

🔄 Strategic Integration & Acquisitions

🌍 Market Position & Use Cases

Siemens EDA holds ~13% of global EDA market share (2024), behind Synopsys (~31%) and Cadence (~30%)—with China from lifted export restrictions now a key region for future growthMarketWatch. Its tools support:

  • Advanced analog/mixed-signal and RF ICs

  • Multi-die / 3D‑IC packaging flows

  • High-speed digital ASICs and PCB channel validation

  • Full-chip variability-aware design and reliability signoff

  • AI-driven productivity boosts across hot paths like APR, layout debugging, and rule-based RCA

📋 Summary Table

Category Details
Origin Mentor Graphics (founded 1981); Siemens acquisition 2017
Core Products Aprisa, Calibre, Questa, Solido, Xpedition, Tessent, Veloce
Key Technologies AI-enhanced flows; cloud-native EDA; reliability signoff; multi-domain integration
Strategic Acquisitions Insight EDA; upcoming Altair (H2 2025)
Market Share (2024) ~13% of global EDA market
AI/Cloud Launch DAC 2025 AI system, Calibre Vision AI, Aprisa AI, Solido AI
Global Context Partnered with Intel Foundry; integrated in Siemens Xcelerator; serving IC & PCB ecosystem

🚀 Strategic Vision

Siemens EDA is evolving toward an AI-powered, secure, and cloud-scaled toolchain supporting chip-to-system design under Siemens’ Xcelerator ecosystem. Its roadmap emphasizes:

  • End-to-end design workflows from SoC to PCB

  • AI-driven design guidance, debug, and optimization

  • Cloud collaboration and secure data governance

  • Deep integration with manufacturing, reliability, and simulation offerings via acquisitions like Altair

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