According to a recent announcement, Siemens (News - Alert) has entered into an agreement to acquire Saskatoon, Canada-based Solido Design Automation Inc., a provider of variation-aware design and characterization software to semiconductor companies worldwide.
Solido's machine learning-based products are currently used in production at over 40 major companies, enabling them to design, verify, and manufacture more competitive products than ever before. The acquisition of Solido further expands Mentor's analog/mixed-signal (AMS (News - Alert)) verification portfolio to help customers address the growing challenges of IC design and verification for automotive, communications, data-center computing, networking, mobile, and IoT applications. The terms of the transaction are not disclosed. Siemens said it expects to close the transaction in early December 2017.
"With the acquisition of Mentor we made a large commitment to EDA," said Tony Hemmelgarn, president and CEO, Siemens PLM Software. "This new acquisition of Solido strengthens that presence and demonstrates our commitment to serving our customers in the IC industry."
Variation-aware design and characterization has become fundamental in developing modern semiconductor products with the best possible power, performance, and cost. When analog, mixed-signal, memory, and standard cell circuits are designed for today's complex applications, the verification software needs to deliver very high confidence in the simulation results while avoiding time- and resource-intensive analysis methods. Solido's proprietary machine learning-based, variation-aware design and characterization software is proven to deliver the required confidence while significantly reducing time and resources and delivering unrivaled data visualization.
"Solido has become an invaluable partner helping our customers address the impact of variability to improve IC performance, power, area, and yield," said Amit Gupta, founder, president and CEO, Solido Design Automation. "Combining our technology portfolio with Mentor's outstanding IC capabilities and market reach will allow us to provide world-class solutions to the semiconductor industry on an even larger scale. We are also excited to contribute to Siemens' broader digitalization strategy with our applied machine learning for engineering technology portfolio and expertise."
"The combination of Solido and Mentor's leading analog-mixed-signal circuit verification products creates the industry's most powerful portfolio of solutions for addressing today's IC circuit verification challenges," said Ravi Subramanian, VP and GM, Mentor's IC verification solutions division. "Solido joins Mentor at an exciting time. Having a power house like Siemens entering EDA is proving to be a true game changer for us."