At this year’s DAC, being held in San Francisco, Siemens is demonstrating how artificial intelligence (AI) can improve productivity, accelerate time to market for the EDA industry and enable customers to explore innovation opportunities.
“We are strategically investing in developing sophisticated industrial-grade AI solutions that are purpose-built for the unique complexities of EDA,” said Mike Ellow, CEO, Siemens EDA, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “Siemens is set to revolutionise the way design teams operate, ushering in a future where generative and agentic AI capabilities are seamlessly integrated into every aspect of the EDA workflow.”
Using the new EDA AI System, customers can integrate their own EDA data and create custom workflows using advanced AI, enabling teams to deploy AI where it adds the most value but without disrupting workflows.
Along with enterprise-grade security, customisable access control and flexible deployment options (on-premises or cloud), Siemens can deliver data protection within customers’ secure data centres. In addition, it provides a strong data flywheel effect using a centralised multimodal data lake that boosts productivity through each interaction while supporting various AI models, including large and small language models, and machine and reinforcement learning.
As well as in-house infrastructure and third-party models, Siemens’ EDA AI system also supports NVIDIA NIM microservices and NVIDIA Llama Nemotron models.
NVIDIA NIM enables the scalable deployment of inference-ready models across cloud and on-premises environments, supporting real-time tool orchestration and multi-agent systems. Llama Nemotron adds high context reasoning and robust tool-calling for more intelligent automation across the EDA workflow.
“AI agents can dramatically boost productivity for complex electronic design automation to support engineers across layout optimisation, simulation and verification, freeing engineers to focus on creative problem-solving and advanced design challenges,” explained Tim Costa, senior director of CAE and CUDA-X at NVIDIA. “With NVIDIA NIM microservices and Llama Nemotron reasoning models, Siemens EDA can speed the development of the most intricate electronic systems.”
Siemens’ toolset includes:
Aprisa AI software: Aprisa AI is a fully integrated technology in the Aprisa digital implementation solution, enabling next-generation AI features and methodologies across RTL-to-GDS. Its capabilities include AI design exploration that adaptively optimises for power/performance /area (PPA) for a given design, as well as integrated generative AI-assist, delivering ready-to-run examples and solutions.
With a natural language interface built-in together with production-ready, fully customisable and transportable AI-generated solutions, Aprisa AI can deliver 10x productivity, 3x faster time to tapeout and 10 percent better PPA for digital designs across all process technologies, enabling massive engineering team and compute scalability, while accelerating time-to-market for the next generation of silicon designs.
Calibre Vision AI software: Calibre Vision AI offers significant advances in chip integration signoff by helping design teams identify and fix critical design violations in half the time of existing methods by instantly loading and organising them into intelligent clusters. Designers can then prioritise their activity based on this clustering and achieve a higher level of productivity.
Calibre Vision AI also improves efficiency in the workflow with the addition of “bookmarks” that allow designers to capture current analysis state, including notes and assignments, and then foster enhanced collaboration between chip integrators and block owners during physical verification. Calibre Vision AI is integrated into existing layout viewers and physical design tools to enable engineers to debug in their current implantation environment.
Solido generative and agentic AI: Solido now harnesses Siemens’ EDA AI system to deliver advanced generative and agentic AI capabilities throughout the Solido Custom IC platform to transform next generation design and verification. Tailored to each phase of the custom IC development process, including schematic capture, simulation, variation-aware design and verification, library characterization, layout and IP validation, Solido’s generative and agentic AI empowers engineering teams to achieve orders-of-magnitude productivity gains.
Siemens’ EDA AI system is currently available for early access across the Siemens EDA portfolio.
