The acquisition will strengthen Mentor's integrated circuit (IC) design and validation technology for the automotive industry and enhance ISO 26262 functional safety testing with Siemens' digital twin technology.
The acquisition will strengthen Mentor's integrated circuit (IC) design and validation technology for the automotive industry and enhance ISO 26262 functional safety testing with Siemens' digital twin technology.
◆ Innovative technology to achieve orders of magnitude fault simulation faster.
The acquisition builds on Siemens' digital strategy and IC market investment strategy to enable customers to innovate.
Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire Austemper Design Systems, a startup software company based in Austin, Texas, that provides analytics, self-calibration and simulation technologies. Austemper Design Systems' technology helps users test and improve integrated circuit designs for functional safety in applications such as automotive, industrial and aerospace systems. In these applications, functional safety and high reliability are mandatory requirements of safety standards such as ISO26262.
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In automotive, industrial, and aerospace applications, integrated circuits require three types of functional safety verification: system failure, malicious failure, and random hardware failure. Mentor's existing Questa™ software is a leader in system fault functional verification, providing a malicious fault verification solution to ensure the safety of integrated circuits. Austemper's software technology brings state-of-the-art analysis, self-calibration and fault simulation to address random hardware failures, extending and strengthening Mentor's leadership in functional safety with its existing Tessent™ product components and Veloce™ platform. Provide users with a comprehensive end-to-end solution.
Design teams from leading semiconductor and IP companies use Austemper's innovative technology for fault and vulnerability analysis of register transfer level (RTL) code versions in their designs. The technology automatically corrects and strengthens weak links, and then performs fault simulation to ensure a more complete and error-free design. At the same time, Austemper's technology is also able to achieve orders of magnitude simulation faster than the competition.
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As part of its digitalization strategy, Siemens will integrate Austemper's technology into Mentor's integrated circuit validation portfolio, leveraging its global sales channels to provide customers with this world-class functional safety solution. To enable digital twins of critical safety systems for core areas such as autonomous vehicles, smart cities and factory 4.0 industrial equipment.
Tony Hemmelgarm, President and CEO of Siemens PLM Software, said: "With this acquisition, we continue to deliver on our commitment to our customers to help them quickly deliver innovations to autonomous vehicles, smart factories and smart cities. While these market segments emphasize flexibility and innovation, it is critical that our customers always build their systems with the highest security standards as their guiding principle. "The combination of Austemper technology with Mentor's integrated circuits, along with Teamcenter and Polarion ALM software, will help our customers develop and test digital twins of their systems, ensuring the highest functional safety before manufacturing and deployment."
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Siemens expects to complete the acquisition in July 2018.
Siemens PLM Software is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) and manufacturing operations management (MOM) software, systems and services, with more than 15 million software units shipped to more than 140,000 customers worldwide. The company is headquartered in Plano, Texas, USA. Siemens PLM Software partners with enterprise customers to provide industry-leading software solutions that help them gain a sustainable competitive advantage through revolutionary innovation.
