Siemens Announces Excellicon Acquisition

Siemens Digital Industries Software has entered into an agreement to acquire Excellicon. This will bring Excellicon’s software for the development, verification, and management of timing constraints to Siemens’ EDA portfolio of software for IC design. The planned acquisition enables Siemens to deliver an approach to 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 gaps in the workflows, Siemens reports.

“Effective timing constraints management is crucial for the overall success of semiconductor system-on-chip designs,” says Mike Ellow, CEO, Siemens EDA, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “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.”

The addition of Excellicon’s product portfolio covers the 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. The integration of Excellicon’s timing constraint verification and management technology into Siemens will strengthen implementation and verification flows, Siemens reports.

“We are delighted to join Siemens and bring our knowledge and expertise in timing constraints management to the wider Siemens EDA community,” says Himanshu Bhatnagar, CEO, Excellicon. “Together, we’ll 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.”

Founded in 2009 in Laguna Hills, CA, USA, Excellicon develops tools for timing constraints used in digital design and verification workflow. Terms of the acquisition, which is expected to close in a few weeks, were not disclosed. 

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.