New AI system enables EDA engineers to leverage AI securely within established EDA environments.
At the 2025 Design Automation Conference, Siemens Digital Industries Software introduced its AI-enhanced toolset for the EDA design flow. The company is demonstrating how AI can support productivity, shorten development timelines, and assist customers in exploring new design opportunities.
Siemens is showcasing a new EDA AI system designed for semiconductor and PCB design environments. The system provides generative and agent-based AI features, supports workflow integration, and allows for customizable implementation across design processes.
Delivering openness, security and customizability across the entire EDA workflow
The new EDA AI System allows customers to integrate their own EDA data and develop custom workflows with advanced AI tools, helping teams apply AI where it is most effective without changing existing processes. It includes enterprise-grade security, customizable access controls, and flexible deployment options—either on-premises or in the cloud—keeping data within the customer’s secure environment. The system also features a centralized data lake that supports different types of AI models, including language models and machine learning, to improve productivity over time.
Leveraging NVIDIA AI technologies to further accelerate EDA workflows
In addition to 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.
Enabling AI capabilities across the Siemens EDA portfolio 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 optimizes 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 customizable and transportable AI-generated solutions, Aprisa AI delivers 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. To learn more about Aprisa AI please visit: https://siemens.com/aprisa-ai
Calibre Vision AI software: Calibre Vision AI offers a revolutionary advance 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 organizing them into intelligent clusters. Designers can then prioritize 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. To learn more about Calibre Vision AI, visit eda.sw.siemens.com/en-US/ic/calibre-design/interfaces/vision-ai.
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 new generative and agentic AI empowers engineering teams to achieve orders-of-magnitude productivity gains. To learn more about these advanced AI capabilities, visit eda.sw.siemens.com/en-US/ic/solido/solido-generative-agentic-ai.
Availability
Siemens’ EDA AI system is currently available for early access across the Siemens EDA portfolio.
For more information, visit siemens.com.
