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NX Software now includes Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning features

February 19, 2019 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

The latest version of NX software includes an expansion of the Digital Innovation Platform that has been enhanced with machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. These new features can predict next steps and update the user interface to help users more efficiently use software to increase productivity.

The ability to automatically adapt the user interface to meet the needs of different types of users across multiple departments can result in higher adoption rates, leading to a higher-quality computer-aided technology (CAx) system and the creation of a more robust digital twin.


Machine learning (ML) is increasingly being leveraged in the product design process for a competitive advantage. ML can deliver valuable business insights quickly and efficiently, and it has the power to process, analyze, and learn from large volumes of data. AI and ML can also be used to monitor the actions of the user, their success and failures, to dynamically determine how to serve up the right NX commands and or modify the interface and leverage learned UI usage knowledge for CAx environment personalization.

“There’s always been a capability-usability tradeoff with CAD applications. The more expansive it gets, the more difficult it is to use and master,” said Chad Jackson, Chief Analyst at Lifecycle Insights. “The Adaptive UI in NX, however, circumvents that issue. It guides users, new and old, to the right function at the right time. Many will benefit.”

The Siemens Digital Innovation Platform is continually expanding to enable customers to create the most comprehensive digital twin of a product, the production environment and of the performance of the product. Integrating ML and AI into NX software offers benefits of speed, power, efficiency and intelligence through learning, without having to explicitly program these characteristics. Customers can enhance the design process and reduce time to market.

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• Latest Simcenter 3D release reduces transmission modeling time by 80%

January 29, 2019 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Manufacturing is changing with the advent of new materials and production methods, making it more challenging to ensure that as-manufactured parts match the as-designed shape. In the latest release of Simcenter 3D, Siemens PLM Software introduces cutting-edge simulation capabilities, stronger connections to the broader Simcenter portfolio, and an expansion of the integrated multi-disciplinary environment to cover an extended simulation solution footprint, which will help engineers reduce the time, cost and effort required to predict product performance. The simulation solution has also been updated to include simulation of the additive manufacturing process and to cover areas such as transmission simulation, aerostructure margin of safety analysis and fluid-structure interaction.

“In order to build accurate digital twins of their products, companies are demanding more innovations in their simulation software,” said Jan Leuridan, Senior Vice President, Simulation & Test Solutions, Siemens PLM Software. “We are continually innovating new ways to streamline simulation processes and deliver greater accuracy. This release integrates more physics and technologies into the Simcenter 3D environment, to help our customers predict real world performance.

Simcenter 3D can automate the creation and simulation of transmission simulation models within a single, integrated environment. Integrating this traditionally multi-step, error-prone process into a single tool can reduce the engineer’s effort by up to 80%, leading to a more efficient simulation process. “Creating a complex transmission multibody model is a time-consuming process, often requiring the use of multiple software tools,” said Horim Yang, Senior Research Engineer, Hyundai Motor Company. “Simcenter 3D is well suited for our engineering purposes and can reduce the overall time spent on transmission modeling and simulation.”

The latest release of Simcenter 3D offers new ties to the digital thread through synergies with the Simcenter portfolio. New connections between Simcenter 3D and Simcenter STAR-CCM+ software enable aero-acoustics and aero-vibro-acoustic simulations, allowing customers to eliminate the source of unwanted noise for improved cabin comfort. Simcenter 3D can also connect with the routing application within NX software to obtain electrical cord layouts and connection points. Simcenter 3D can then simulate electrical cord deformation within moving assemblies so engineers can make sure wire harnesses don’t get caught on moving parts and adjust as needed to cord routing.

Other new features of Simcenter 3D 2019.1 include:
• Simcenter 3D Aerostructures can streamline the end-to-end aircraft structural analysis and margin of safety process by up to 30%.
• Topology Optimization is more robust, easier to use, and adds design objectives or constraints for structural integrity of a part when subjected to critical loads.
• A new additive manufacturing process simulation tool helps manufacturers achieve a quality print that matches the desired shape on the first try, saving resources, cost, and time.

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How driverless cars will change design

October 16, 2018 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Automated vehicles (AVs) will disrupt the way mechanical engineers work with their peers and how they share design information. Here’s what you can expect.

Jean Thilmany, Senior Editor

Tomorrow’s vehicles will be electrified, connected, and will include many automated functions, including the capability to navigate roads on their own—without a driver’s intervention.

In other words, they’ll be incredibly complex systems comprised of mechatronics, sensors, radar, automated functions, and many other features. And, like other incredibly complex systems introduced within recent years, they’ll disrupt the way mechanical engineers work with their peers and share design information.

The age of the automated vehicle (AV), also known as the driverless car, is upon us, says Scott Shogan, connected and automated vehicles market leader at WSP, an engineering firm.

Government officials and industry leaders expect AVs will begin to make their way to U.S. streets within the next decade, says Shogan, who follows AV trends on the local, national, and international levels.

Future automated vehicles will consist of complex systems that are comprised of mechatronics, sensors, radar, automated functions, and many other features.

AVs probably won’t be the personal, driverless cars you may be imagining—instead, they’re likely to take the form of shared-ride cars or small buses that pick you up at your home. The driverless vehicle will shuttle you from your door to the nearest automated-bus stop or train station to continue you on your driverless commute, says Shogan.

While AVs may not yet be on the scene, connected vehicles—AVs cousins—are increasingly common today. They include features like advanced driver’s assistance systems with lane centering, adaptive cruise control, and swerve detection, notably seen on Tesla vehicles.

ACM uses Prescan, part of the SimCenter suite of Siemens simulation and test solutions. Designers use the program to physically and virtually test and validate AVs and connected vehicles. The program produces physics-based simulation of raw sensor data of the potential driving scenarios and traffic situations in which AVs could drive themselves. These simulations help developers better understand how to position Lidar and radar on their vehicles, as well as improve upon many other aspects of design.

None of these features let the car drive itself, but they do help a driver avoid crashes, Shogan says.

The move toward electric is already underway. GM has announced it will launch AV taxies next year at three sites, Shogan says. “What they’ll look like we don’t know. But it shows how quickly things are moving.”

Volvo announced it will stop making internal-combustion-engine vehicles in the next few years, Shogan says.

Already there are around 350 types of electrical vehicles on the market, O’Brien says. “There has been a huge increase in the complexity of these electrical systems,” he adds.

Future electric vehicles will use sensors to gather instant information about what’s going on in the world around the vehicle to help automated systems make split-second decisions.

They’ll also include 40 percent more hardware than today’s vehicles and have safety, security, and power demands not seen in present-day automotive needs.

Systems of design

As you might expect, automated vehicle design is a different ballgame as compared to the way non-automated and non-connected vehicles are designed today. Whether connected or automated, these vehicles will likely be built on an electric platform, Shogan says.

Engineering AVs and other new, complex machines like collaborative robots require close collaboration among engineers who must take a “systems engineering” approach to design, validation, testing and prototyping, says Martin O’Brien vice-president of the integrated electrical systems division at Mentor, which makes software for electronic design.

Like cobots, AVs will consist of electrical, mechanical, and software systems as well as sensors that provide feedback about the world around the vehicle, he says.

While CAD has a place in automated vehicle (AV) design, CAD models are part of all the models that make up the larger design system, O’Brien says. The CAD models become part of a model-based system engineering process,

Which is a method of systems engineering based on creating and exchanging models rather that documents.

In July, Volkswagen confirmed plans confirmed plans to produce its upcoming all-electric microbus and its crossover vehicle in the United States.

All the systems within complex machines like AVs need to be designed to work together, O’Brien says. So software and mechatronic models are shared for a systems-engineering approach to design.

A systems-modeling approach allows engineers to bring together all the knowledge from the multiple domains into one location, he says.

“Systems that used to be tested independently of one another are now so tightly integrated that we have to engage all the systems and test them simultaneously,” he says. “The electrical system has to be designed in the context of the software system and the entire 3-D system.”

Recognizing this, the makers of engineering software are increasingly creating software that can help carry out the design of AVs across the lines of engineering—electrical, mechanical, and software.

The software depicts how all these functions will work together in a real-life operating machine. When the digital systems are all running at the same time and in intended manner, developers often refer to the product mock-up as a digital twin.

SimCenter 3D, from Siemens PLM Software, for example, allows engineers to create models to connect their designs and to carry out 1D simulation, test, and data management functions on those designs, says Dave Taylor, Siemens vice president of global marketing.

While the solution is tied to Siemens NX CAD software on the mechanical-creation side, it can import geometry from any CAD source and prepare analysis models for a range of multiphysics simulations including finite element, boundary element, computational fluid dynamics, and multi-body dynamics, Taylor adds.

Usually a company will use its product lifecycle management system to coordinate efforts across various applications, he adds. To take the Siemens example, Teamcenter PLM, from Siemens, can be used to coordinate mechanical designs created with Siemens’ NX software, and electrical designs created with Capital electrical design software from Mentor, a Siemens company, O’Brien says.

Once it meets everyone’s specifications, the model of the entire system—the entire AV in this case—becomes the digital twin, used to virtually test the AV. Because the digital twin simulates exactly how a machine will function, engineers are able to find and fix design problems before the expensive products are produced.

This is where the digital twin comes in. The digital twin links those models to focus on one aspect of a product or the entire product.

While the CAD model is a part of a digital twin, so are the models that make up the electrical and software systems. Sensor information is incorporated into the digital twin as well, O’Brien says.

“Developing a functioning twin is a systems integration task,” he adds. “Model-based engineering is central to successful outcomes to integrate functions, devices and signals into the platform.”

Simcenter allows engineers to share their model across domains to create a system-wide simulation of a product to be used for a digital twin, Taylor says.

A digital twin is increasingly used for testing today because building a prototype to test all the functions of sophisticated machines like an AV or a collaborative robot is often just not possible, O’Brien says.

“Multi-physics simulation is critical for autonomous vehicles, where the digital twin can drive billions of virtual miles and our solutions can predict exactly what’s going to happen in the real world,” Hemmelgarn adds.

Some parts of the AV won’t require a systems-engineering approach.

The way CAD works in the automotive industry today will still be part of the design process when other aspects like electric and software don’t come into play, for example, for the features found inside the AV.

Of course, the interior of the vehicle will look quite different than it does today, as there won’t be a need for the steering wheel, or really, the driver’s seat. To save space within the vehicle’s compartment, riders might sit facing each other, or they may not sit at all, Shogan says.

But a seat is still a seat. And mechanical engineers will be called upon to use their CAD systems for seat design.

Perhaps the interiors of some AVs will look like the trains in airports that ferry passengers between terminals: they’ll include a few seats around the perimeter, though most of the AV’s occupants will remain standing for their short ride.

On the right track

But testing and validating AV design goes beyond the digital twin, of course. Testing the AV needs to happen with a real-life vehicle.

Safe validation must include a structured combination of three methods: testing the digital twin, testing the vehicle on a controlled track, and testing it on the actual road, says Mark Chaput, vice president of construction and infrastructure development at the American Center for Mobility (ACM) in Ypsilanti Township, Mich.

The Michigan center is an AV proving ground where the technology can be tested safely. The U.S. DOT designated 10 of these sites in 2017. After a testing period, officials from those sites will their share best practices to safely test and operate AVs. That information will enable participants and the public to learn about AVs and will accelerate the pace of safe deployment, Chaput says.

ACM is an open track that companies come to independently to test their AVs. AVs can operate at the proving grounds much as they would on the street, so engineers can get sensor feedback and, of course, perfect their vehicles.

The proving grounds are necessary because these prototypes need to be tested within a closed environment.

“You won’t be able to develop this technology in a traditional way,” Chapaut says. “Vehicle makers need to test perceptions of the world around the AVs and traditional automotive proving grounds aren’t equipped for that.”

The test vehicles will need to be tested across millions of miles to verify all its technological functions, he adds. “AV makers, for example, wonder how to integrate Lidar and radar and the many sensors needed to automatically see the road into their AVs,” he says.

Lidar allows AVs to calculate the distance to an object. It measures the distance by illuminating a target with pulsed laser light and measuring the reflected pulses with a sensor.

In May, ACM brought in Prescan, part of the SimCenter suite of Siemens simulation and test solutions. The program is used to physically and virtually test and validate AVs and connected vehicles.

It produces physics-based simulation of raw sensor data of the potential driving scenarios and traffic situations in which AVs could drive themselves. By running these kinds of tests and simulations, developers can better understand how to position Lidar and radar on their vehicles, as well as improve upon many other aspects of design.

When the AV prototype is finally ready, it can be tested in real life, on the ACM roads, which include stoplights, curbs—essentially everything found while driving on a road, including bikes and pedestrians, Chaput says.

When driveless vehicles finally do become a common part of the landscape, you’ll know the time, commitment, collaborations, and the many tests and validation scenarios that went into their safe creation.

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Boeing extends partnership with Siemens’ Mentor Graphics

October 2, 2018 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Siemens announces that Boeing has entered into an agreement to expand its use of Siemens’ Mentor Graphics software as part of its Second Century Enterprise Systems (2CES) initiative to transform itself, and the aerospace industry, to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century. As the world’s largest aerospace company, Boeing stands ready to lead the industry into the next 100 years with Siemens as a partner, providing a set of technologies to enable the next generation of design and manufacturing through increased automation and digitalization.

This decision follows a comprehensive analysis of available solutions including current and future capabilities, technology flexibility to meet changing requirements in real world applications and overall business value to Boeing. The long term agreement provides industry-leading Siemens technology in the areas of electrical systems design, electronic products design and mechanical analysis as a foundation for Boeing to consistently deliver comprehensive and innovative solutions to its customers. Focusing on technologies from Siemens’ Mentor Graphics acquisition, Boeing will standardize on a common, company-wide platform for semiconductor design and verification, printed wire board design and manufacture, electrical system design and manufacture (including wire harness) and thermal and fluid analysis of mechanical designs.

“Our partnership with the Siemens-Mentor team will combine best-in-class electrical design tools with Boeing’s vast experience and knowledge in our 2CES transformation of electrical design,” said John Harnagel, Engineering Director, Boeing Defense and Space.

“Siemens is proud to have been chosen as one of Boeing’s partners for its second century vision and transformation. Our ability to help customers drive digitalization and realize innovation is our core strength, and we are pleased to see that Boeing values that strength,” said Tony Hemmelgarn, president and CEO of Siemens PLM Software. “This partnership is a measure of Boeing’s trust in Siemens to help them deliver its vision, and we at Siemens are looking forward to helping them make it happen.”

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Solid Edge delivers next-generation product development tools in an integrated portfolio

June 5, 2018 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Siemens  announced the latest release of Solid Edge software, a portfolio of affordable, easy-to-use software tools that advance all aspects of the product development process, including mechanical and electrical design, simulation, manufacturing, technical documentation, and data management. Solid Edge 2019 adds best-in-class electrical and printed circuit board (PCB) design technologies, new requirements management capabilities, fully integrated simulation analysis, the latest tools for subtractive and additive manufacturing, and free secure cloud-based project collaboration. The expanded portfolio makes it even easier for customers of all business sizes to realize innovation by taking advantage of the end-to-end digital twin.

“The integration of mechanical and electrical design tools within Solid Edge will enable us to develop and deliver our custom electro-mechanical systems faster and at a lower cost than our competition,” said Eric Becnel, VP and chief engineer, RadioBro Corporation.

Integrated software applications are critical for today’s complex multiphase design projects. Solid Edge Wiring Design provides design and simulation tools for the rapid creation of wiring diagrams and verification of electrical systems. Solid Edge Harness Design adds intuitive harness and formboard design tools with automated part selection, design validation, and manufacturing report generation. Solid Edge PCB Design accelerates schematic capture and PCB layout, and is fully integrated with mechanical design to reduce costly errors.

The latest release of Solid Edge provides new modular plant design capabilities, with Solid Edge P&ID Design and Solid Edge Piping Design. Providing 2D flow diagram and symbol support for P&ID creation, Solid Edge P&ID Design supports strict governing requirements for plant design. Combined with Solid Edge Piping Design capabilities such as automated 3D piping design with comprehensive 3D part libraries and fully automated isometric drawing output for plant design, these new features can help reduce design errors and ensure efficient piping design in industries such as Oil & Gas.

New design for additive manufacturing capabilities include better control of shapes, weight and strength, and specific factors of safety to enable customers to develop new designs never before possible. Solid Edge also automates print preparation, including multi-color, multi-material printing capability, which reduces bill of material size and parts inventory and decreases dependency on costly manufacturing equipment. Additionally, these new capabilities enable manufacturers to produce low production lots very quickly and affordably. Also new in Solid Edge 2019 is Solid Edge CAM Pro, a comprehensive, highly flexible system that uses the latest machining technology to efficiently program CNC machine tools helping confirm parts are manufactured as designed.

“The global market requirement to develop and deliver increasingly complex products in shrinking timeframes has created many new challenges for our customers, as well as new opportunities to differentiate,” said John Miller, senior vice president, Mainstream Engineering, Siemens PLM Software. “I’m confident that the integration of leading technologies from Mentor and the next-generation design capabilities delivered in the Solid Edge 2019 portfolio will empower our customers to innovate in the new era of digitalization.”

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Siemens partnership with Obeo enables a multi-domain digital twin

June 5, 2018 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Siemens PLM Software announced extensions to its portfolio for model based systems engineering (MBSE) to enable Multi-Domain Engineering as a key component of the Systems Driven Product Development strategy.

Building on its MBSE technology, which includes Teamcenter software, Simcenter software, Capital software, NX software, and Polarion software, Siemens PLM Software is embracing a strong commitment to open standards and the open source software enabling these technologies to integrate with the digital twin. For this purpose, Siemens PLM Software has entered into a partnership agreement with Obeo, a software provider of customizable modeling solutions.

The partnership will complement Siemens’ Multi-Domain Engineering capability by providing flexible modeling solutions, engineering methodologies and industry-specific process templates. These offerings allow customers the flexibility to either use standard modeling languages, such as System Modeling Language (SysML) or Capella, or to apply their own process methodology. Providing cross-discipline integration across the product architecture helps connect digital twins in a unique way, creating a multi-domain digital twin by enabling systems engineering across the entire product lifecycle.

“With this partnership, Obeo brings users of Siemens PLM Software the benefits of closed-loop model integration between product architecture and downstream engineering,” said Etienne Juliot, vice-president and cofounder of Obeo. “Managing the system, software and hardware architecture characteristics in an integrated repository that is ‘single source of truth’ uniquely enables a digital thread across the digital twins, and therefore the best way to find an optimal trade-off between reliability, cost, and performance to master multi-domain system development.”

Through the Systems Driven Product Development solutions, Siemens offers the next-generation capability to provide a clear step beyond existing point-to-point software integrations. The combined solution, underpinned by the collaboration platform Active Workspace for Teamcenter, can be used to optimize designs for cost, performance and in-service maintenance, and to deliver continuous validation against requirements. The user experience is augmented by co-design aids such as cross visualization and automatic object reconciliation between NX, Simcenter and Capital, our integrated electric and electronic design and validation platform. The true integration of MBSE with the entire product lifecycle through Teamcenter helps enable a more efficient product journey from conceptualization to realization.

Integrated with Teamcenter, the combination of NX CAD, Simcenter for mechatronic systems simulation, and Polarion for embedded software development enables systems engineering across all major engineering domains. Such systems engineering workflows were recently extended into the domains of electrical and electronic engineering, with the applications of Mentor Graphics. The partnership with Obeo will help provide a seamless integration between Siemens’ MBSE solution and industry standards. The solution will deliver comprehensive requirements, including functional, logical, physical and flow, giving customers the richest and deepest set of capabilities for MBSE to uniquely address and simplify the development of complex products.

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Multidisciplinary tools for product development

December 15, 2017 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Siemens claims it’s latest version of NX software delivers the next generation of design, simulation and manufacturing solutions that enable users to realize the value of the digital twin in the end-to-end process.

This latest release unites electrical, mechanical and control systems through close integration with Mentor Graphics Capital and Xpedition portfolios for electrical systems, harness and PCB design.

NX underpins tools used for systems driven product development based on the RFLP (Requirements, Functional, Logical and Physical) methodology, which provides a significant connection between the logical and physical abstractions in both electrical and mechanical domains. Building on Convergent Modeling technology that lets designers seamlessly work and model with mesh geometry in combination with precise geometry, the new version combines tools for design optimization, advanced geometry creation, freeform shapes and parametric design to make generative design a reality.

Connectivity between mechanical, electrical and control systems in NX 12 give engineers a holistic view, which is useful when designing complex products such as the ONE Aviation Eclipse jet.

As electronics become essential to all products, regardless of industry, it’s important that electrical and mechanical designers collaborate throughout the product development process. Using technology from recently acquired Mentor Graphics, the latest version of NX provides a direct connection between the design of electrical and mechanical systems. Linking the electrical tools and the 3D model, enables co-design including cross-probing, allowing designers of wiring diagrams and harnesses to work closely together, preventing costly and time-consuming rework due to electromechanical issues.

Multidisciplinary work is not limited to electrical design. Industries involving large amounts of piping, such as ship building, will benefit from close integration between instrumentation diagrams and 2D schematic layouts. New tools in NX allow engineers to lay out piping and instrumentation diagrams in two dimensions, while maintaining the design tied to the 3D space model. This synchronization can help eliminate errors and save time as teams work more closely than ever before.

With increasing pressure to deliver products to market more quickly, generative design integrates a variety of tools to give designers more flexibility and choice when dealing with complex geometries. Using these technologies in combination also allows companies to go beyond traditional solutions that focus solely on optimizing shape to achieve multidisciplinary design.

The average car today contains 100 million lines of code, meaning that cars are increasingly complex systems comprised of mechanical and electrical components. NX 12 provides connectivity between the disciplines, giving engineers visibility into both systems and helping drive their design decisions early on.

In the constant drive to reduce component weight and improve resource usage, companies are looking to incorporate lattice structures into design to meet these goals without compromising on strength and structural integrity. The latest version of NX delivers new approaches to design for additive manufacturing, including the ability to add lattice. Convergent Modeling makes it possible to work directly with faceted geometry such as these lattice structures, saving companies from the lengthy data conversion process normally required. This enables companies to deliver lighter, stronger products to market in much less time.

Lattice structures offer stronger lightweight alternatives to traditional part design, and the unique ability of NX 12 to modify these structures without data conversion using facet modeling shaves weeks off of the design process.

“The fact that the faceted geometry now comes in as a convergent body and behaves pretty much as a sheet or solid body is beneficial. It will make our workflow more efficient and save time that we can spend on other things, such as more projects,” added Jonas Brochman, engineering method specialist of Manufacturing Engineering, GKN Aerospace Engine Systems, Sweden. “The ability to associatively compensate and reposition the faceted scan data of hardware in an associative and controlled way will greatly help us to increase efficiency and resulting quality.”

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Siemens acquires Solido Design Automation

November 22, 2017 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Siemens has entered into an agreement to acquire Saskatoon, Canada-based Solido Design Automation Inc., a leading 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) 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 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 of Siemens PLM Software. “This new acquisition of Solido strengthens that presence and demonstrates our commitment to serving our customers in the IC industry.”

“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 of 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.”

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.

“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, vice president and general manager of 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.”

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www.siemens.com/plm.

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