Siemens Acquires Precision Innovations to Add AI Chip Planning to EDA

Siemens Acquires Precision Innovations to Add AI Chip Planning to EDA The acquisition brings AI-driven early design exploration capabilities to accelerate system-on-chip development and optimize performance. At a Glance - The AI-powered tools evaluate thousands of design options early on. - Precision’s technology accelerates semiconductor time-to-market. - The integration enhances workflows from architecture through the silicon lifecycle. Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire Precision Innovations Inc., a privately held electronic design automation software company. The acquisition expands Siemens’ EDA portfolio with AI-powered chip planning capabilities. This will help semiconductor teams optimize power and performance earlier in the system-on-chip design process. Precision Innovations develops EDA software built on the open-source OpenROAD framework to help semiconductor teams evaluate design feasibility, reduce design iterations, and accelerate time-to-market as system-on-a-chip complexity continues to grow. The acquisition will strengthen Siemens’ EDA portfolio with AI-driven chip planning and design exploration capabilities, complementing Siemens’ existing digital design and verification solutions by enabling faster feasibility analysis and more informed downstream decisions. Digital design creation software Precision Innovations will join Siemens as a key addition to its Digital Design Creation software, complementing existing digital design and implementation capabilities to deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end digital flow that spans architecture, implementation, and the full silicon lifecycle management of SoCs. Precision will offer Siemens customers the ability to easily select new architectures. “With Precision Innovations joining Siemens, we will expand our ability to support customers as they face rapidly increasing SoC complexity and the need to explore new architectures faster and more efficiently,” said Ankur Gupta, EVC of IC Portfolio, Siemens EDA, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “Integrating Precision Innovations’ AI-powered early design exploration into our EDA portfolio can significantly accelerate time to silicon and improve power, performance, and area.” Shortening the design cycle Siemens noted that the acquisition combines Precision’s technology with Siemens EDA. Precision Innovations’ solutions are used by leading semiconductor and technology companies and significantly enhance Siemens’ existing EDA offerings across digital design and verification workflows. “By combining Precision Innovations’ technologies with Siemens’ broader EDA portfolio, Siemens will be able to help customers address growing design complexity, shorten development cycles, and improve engineering productivity,” Siemens said in a statement. For Precision, the acquisition brings its technology to a larger audience. “Becoming part of Siemens allows us to scale our technology and bring AI-driven chip planning to a much broader set of semiconductor teams,” said Tom Spyrou, CEO of Precision Innovations. “Together, we can help designers leverage AI to evaluate thousands of design options earlier in the process and focus innovation where it matters most.”Precision Innovations was founded in San Diego, California, in 2019 with the mission to democratize the hardware design landscape by addressing barriers related to cost, expertise, and uncertainty that have historically limited access to advanced semiconductor technologies. Read more about: Supplier News