Siemens Digital Industries Software today announced that it has acquired Fractal Technologies, a provider of production signoff-quality IP validation solutions, based in the U.S. and the Netherlands.
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With this acquisition, Siemens' EDA customers can more quickly and easily validate internal and external IP and libraries used in their IC designs to improve overall quality and speed time-to-market.
Fractal's offerings include a comprehensive suite of IP validation and comparison checks used by top-tier foundries, IP providers, integrated device manufacturers and fabless semiconductor companies to accelerate time-to-tapeout and improve silicon results by enabling design data quality and integrity.
Siemens plans to add Fractal's technology to the Xcelerator portfolio as part of its industry-leading suite of EDA IC verification offerings.