Siemens has entered into an agreement to acquire Excellicon to bring its best-in-class software for the development, verification, and management of timing constraints to Siemens’ EDA portfolio of software for IC design. [Photo: Siemens Industry Software]
Plano-based Siemens Digital Industries Software is acquiring Excellicon, a company based in Laguna, Hills, California, that develops tools for timing constraints used in digital design and verification workflow.
The deal will bring Excellicon’s “best-in-class” software for the development, verification, and management of timing constraints to Siemens’ EDA portfolio of software for IC design, Siemens said. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The planned acquisition will enable Siemens to deliver what it calls “an innovative approach” to both implementation and verification flows—enabling System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designers to improve power, performance and area (PPA), accelerate design closure, enhance functional and structural constraint correctness, improve productivity and address key gaps in the current workflows.
A ‘rapidly evolving’ SoC landscape
Siemens noted that the SoC design landscape is rapidly evolving, driven in part by growing design complexity.
That’s where timing constraints management comes in.
The practice is required throughout the design process to meet power, performance, area and time-to-market requirements.
“Effective timing constraints management is crucial for the overall success of semiconductor system-on-chip designs,” Mike Ellow, CEO, Siemens EDA, Siemens Digital Industries Software, said in a statement. “Excellicon’s constraint verification and management solution complements Siemens’ existing EDA offerings and expands our portfolio into key market segments in flows with the Questa, Tessent, Aprisa and PowerPro products.”
Covering the entire spectrum
Siemens said the addition of Excellicon’s product portfolio covers the entire spectrum of timing constraints authoring, compiling, verification, formal validation and management using a multi-mode approach that bridges early design concepts with their physical implementation—offering insights into partitioning schemes for optimal floorplans and timing.
The integration of Excellicon’s timing constraint verification and management technology into Siemens “will strengthen both implementation and verification flows,” the company added.
Excellicon CEO Himanshu Bhatnagar said that together, his company and Siemens “will be able to provide better process coverage and enable our customers to deliver robust innovation to market more quickly and overcome the ever-growing complexity challenges facing the IC industry.”
The acquisition is expected to close in a few weeks, Siemens said.
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