Among the latest updates on U.S.-China tensions, the Biden administration has reportedly stopped approving licenses for U.S. companies to export most items to Huawei; and Netherlands and Japan have reportedly agreed to the U.S. request of restricting exports of chipmaking tools (from ASML, Tokyo Electron etc.) to China. Let’s now move to other news, starting with some EDA updates.
Siemens aims to accelerate verification closure
Verification productivity continues to be a hot topic for the EDA industry. Siemens has just introduced Questa Verification IQ software – a solution that leverages big data and AI to accelerate verification closure. As explained in a press release, Questa Verification IQ is tightly integrated with Siemens’ Polarion Requirements software to deliver a platform that automatically captures all data from every engine run across the life of a project, helping users manage requirements, coding, testing and release management across the design and verification process. According to Siemens, this combination provides a digital thread optimized for functional safety compliance tasks, providing a traceable solution from requirements down to verification results and implementation. Questa Verification IQ unifies coverage data from the formal and simulation engines within Siemens’ Questa platform, OneSpin software, Symphony platform for analog and mixed-signal simulation, as well as Siemens’ Veloce hardware for emulation and prototyping. The machine learning functionality in Questa Verification IQ then analyzes the data to predict patterns and holes, identify root causes, and prescribe solutions to potential issues. Questa Verification IQ is implemented in a web-based application framework.
