Siemens EDA unveils AI system to transform IC design at DAC 2025
At this year’s Design Automation Conference (DAC 2025), Siemens EDA made a landmark announcement that signals a major leap forward in how integrated circuit (IC) design will be approached in the AI era. Siemens introduced a comprehensive, purpose-built EDA AI System designed to integrate generative and agentic AI capabilities across the semiconductor design flow.
Read about it in DesignNews.
What was announced?
Siemens’ new EDA AI System is a secure, customizable platform that embeds AI into every stage of the IC design process. It supports both generative AI—which can create design suggestions and automate repetitive tasks—and agentic AI, which can act autonomously to optimize workflows and make decisions based on design goals.
The system is built to work seamlessly with Siemens’ existing EDA tools, including:
- Aprisa™ AI: Enhances RTL-to-GDS flows with AI-driven design exploration, delivering up to 10x productivity, 3x faster tapeout, and 10% better power/performance/area (PPA)
- Calibre® Vision AI: Accelerates physical verification by clustering violations and enabling collaborative debugging with bookmarks and annotations
- Solido™ AI: Applies generative and agentic AI across custom IC design phases, from schematic capture to IP validation, enabling massive productivity gains
Why is this significant?
This announcement marks a shift from AI as a peripheral enhancement to AI as a core enabler of semiconductor innovation. Siemens’ approach addresses several industry pain points:
- Design complexity: With transistor density saturating and multi-domain systems becoming the norm, AI helps manage complexity and optimize across domains.
- Time-to-market pressure: AI accelerates design cycles, allowing teams to iterate faster and meet aggressive product timelines.
- Scalability: Natural language interfaces and customizable workflows make AI accessible to broader engineering teams, not just AI specialists.
By embedding AI directly into the design flow, Siemens empowers IC designers to focus on innovation rather than manual optimization and debugging.
What should IC designers explore next?
For EDA Solutions customers, this announcement opens several avenues for exploration:
- Evaluate Aprisa AI: If you’re working on digital implementation, Aprisa AI’s productivity and PPA improvements could be transformative.
- Investigate Calibre Vision AI: For teams focused on physical verification, Vision AI’s clustering and collaboration features may significantly reduce verification bottlenecks.
- Explore Solido AI: Custom IC designers should look into how Solido’s AI capabilities can streamline variation-aware design and IP validation.
- Understand agentic AI: Learn how autonomous AI agents can assist in layout optimization, simulation, and verification.
- Consider deployment models: Siemens offers flexible deployment—on-premises or cloud—so teams can choose what fits their security and infrastructure needs.
Final thoughts
Siemens EDA’s DAC 2025 announcement is more than a product release—it’s a strategic vision for the future of IC design. For EDA Solutions customers, now is the time to explore how AI can be integrated into your workflows to stay competitive and accelerate innovation.