EDA Higher Education Software Program

A complete environment for the design, capture, layout and verification of analog, digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits.

Custom IC Design AMS IC

Complete end-to-end flow for analog-mixed signal (AMS) IC designs. Highly integrated front and back-end tools, from schematic capture, mixed-signal simulation and waveform probing to physical layout and foundry-compatible physical verification.

Custom IC MEMS

Delivers 3D micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) design and fabrication support in one unified environment. This makes it easy to integrate MEMS devices with analog/mixed-signal processing circuitry on the same IC.

Questa ADMS

The Questa ADMS analog and mixed-signal verification suite is a language-neutral, mixed-signal simulator that enables top-down design and bottom-up verification of multi-million gate analog/mixed-signal system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs.

Eldo

Eldo RF provides an analog simulator offering numerous simulation and modeling options that deliver high-performance and high-speed simulation with the accuracy required by the user.

Oasys-RTL™

Using the Oasys-RTL™ software next-generation synthesis and place-and-route (P&R) system comprehensively addresses the time-to-market, performance, capacity, power, area and variability challenges encountered at the leading-edge process nodes. This advanced physical design implementation tool delivers best-in-class area, power and performance while significantly reducing design cycle time with a high design throughput.

Calibre®

Delivers a complete IC verification and DFM optimization platform that speeds designs from creation to manufacturing, addressing all sign-off requirements.

The design, verification and test bundle provide complete solutions for hardware description language (HDL) design, verification, synthesis and test of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs):

Tessent Silicon Test

Complete technology-leading solution for testability analysis, scan, boundary scan and memory test synthesis and automatic test pattern generation.

Questa

Entirely standards based, Questa is the most advanced functional verification product in the industry, supporting assertion-based verification, coverage driven verification, test bench automation and formal analysis of clock domain crossing (CDC), supported by a comprehensive suite of Verification IP.

Oasys-RTL

Physical register-transfer level (RTL) synthesis for advanced-node designs.

FPGA design and verification

Complete solution comprising HDL design, simulation, hardware/software co-verification and leading FPGA logic and physical synthesis.

High-level design and verification

A comprehensive suite of tools for design creation and analysis using C and System C, including Catapult™ C software and Vista™ software.

System modeling

Complete environment for creating and verification of mixed-signal and multilanguage systems, prevalent in aerospace and other industries.

A comprehensive integrated solution for printed circuit board (PCB) system design and analysis. Colleges and universities that engage with Siemens EDA receive the same cutting-edge solutions used by industry professionals.

Siemens EDA solutions include:

• A fully integrated, easy-to-use schematic capture environment that provides everything you need for simple and fast capture, circuit design and simulation, component selection, library management and signal integrity planning.
• Industry-leading PCB layout tools combining ease-of-use with highly automated functionality to give engineers exceptional control over creating simple and complex designs including powerful 3D layout and mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) collaboration.
• Integrated constraint management for correct-by-construction design that eliminates the need for unnecessary PCB prototype and costly re-spins.
• AMS circuit simulation.
• Valor PCB design verification.

All bundles include HyperLynx™ software, which offers a complete suite of analysis and verification software equipping engineers to efficiently analyze, solve, and verify critical PCB requirements to avoid re-spins. HyperLynx supports signal and power integrity analysis, electrical rule checking, thermal analysis, full-wave and 3D solvers.

PADS Professional with HyperLynx

This is Siemens EDA's primary educational bundle. PADS Professional is used for institutions that want today's best desktop PCB system design and analysis tool in the market, powered by Xpedition and HyperLynx technology, the enterprise-class PCB suite. This bundle is perfect for students that have previously used a PCB design tool but want best-in-class horsepower and productivity.

Xpedition with HyperLynx

Xpedition is the market-leading, enterprise-class PCB design tool used by the biggest names in the industry. Its patented technologies focus on reducing design cycles, PCB resource efficiency and quality of results. This is an enterprise class solution and requires college/university CAD support to set up the environment. This bundle is best suited for programs and courses done in partnership with the industry.

Valor

Valor New Product Introduction (NPI) is the industry-leading PCB design verification tool for all ECAD systems. It helps PCB designers and manufacturers accelerate NPI, improve product quality and eliminate unnecessary design iterations, by identifying issues which could effect PCB fabrication, assembly, or test and allowing them to be corrected early in the design flow, before design data is handed off to manufacturing.

The detailed route-centric Aprisa automatic digital P&R system offers complete functionalities for top-level hierarchical design and block-level physical implementation for complex digital IC design projects. It includes cutting-edge technologies in prototyping, floor planning, chip assembly, placement, clock tree synthesis (CTS), routing, optimization and embedded analysis engines.

The core of this technology is the detailed route-centric architecture and hierarchical database, specifically developed to address the design challenges with advanced fin field-effect transistor (FinFET) technology.

Provides complete solutions for formal designs, integration and implementation verification, as well as functional safety, trust and security verification. The main product components include Questa Inspect, Questa Verify Property, Questa Equivalent RTL, and Questa Verify Secure.

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If your research falls outside the scope of the Higher Education Program but you still require access to Siemens EDA tools, please email EDAAcademic.industry@siemens.com. Siemens EDA offers alternative programs to support your research needs, and we are happy to assist in identifying the most suitable option for you.