Keysight announces acquisition, expands EDA product line

Keysight, a company that provides advanced design and verification solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and protect the world, announced that it has acquired Cliosoft and Cliosoft will add the company's family of hardware design data and intellectual property (IP) management software tools to its electronic design automation (EDA) solutions portfolio.

Since its inception, Cliosoft's main focus has been managing design data, including functional IP blocks used in integrated circuits. Cliosoft's products extend Keysight's EDA software offerings with process and data management (PDM) capabilities already used by more than 400 semiconductor and electronic systems customers worldwide.

By bringing Cliosoft into its EDA business, Keysight is enhancing its intelligent automation software offerings with PDM as a critical component in building more efficient workflows. Keysight is extending Cliosoft's capabilities to include test data within the fabric, providing customers with a stronger connection between design and test.

Keysight and Cliosoft are long-standing industry partners, as the data management platform Cliosoft SOS has been integrated with Keysight's Advanced Design System (ADS) solutions currently used by many mutual customers. The combined company will continue to provide version control and data and IP management solutions through EDA industry relationships including Cadence, Empyrean, MathWorks, Siemens EDA, Silvaco and Synopsys environments.

Keysight and Cliosoft share the same philosophy that PDM is critical to the first-time success of customer designs in global engineering enterprises. Design complexity is expanding the amount of IP blocks and data that engineering teams must efficiently manage. Industry trends such as heterogeneous integration, advanced packaging and 24x7 R&D operations are driving customers to take productivity to even higher levels.

"One of our top business priorities is to create digitally connected workflows from design to test to accelerate our customers' digital transformation," said Niels Faché, vice president and general manager of Keysight EDA. "We see a huge opportunity in the PDM space to Leveraging Cliosoft's current capabilities combined with our design test solutions expertise, adding PDM solutions to the portfolio is a natural evolution of our open EDA interoperability strategy to provide best-in-class tools and workflows to support. Increasingly complex product development lifecycles. Cliosoft provides proven software tools that enable product teams to perform data analysis and accelerate time to insight. Faster insights and higher reuse result in improved validation phases. productivity and shortened the overall development cycle.”

"As we approach the 'Beyond Moore's' era, handling the exponential growth of design data and maximizing IP reuse through interoperability across EDA vendor environments is a significant challenge," said Srinath Anantharaman, CEO of Cliosoft. Keysight The technology's broad industry leadership in 5G and 6G communications, automotive, aerospace and defense applications puts Keysight in a unique position to deliver on its promise of connecting design, simulation and test data in streamlined workflows, thereby accelerating time to market. We are excited to work with Keysight to take engineering productivity to the next level and enable our customers to digitally transform their development lifecycles and meet the challenges of the future.”