Siemens acquires PRO DESIGN's proFPGA product family, expanding IC verification portfolio

Siemens acquires PRO DESIGN's proFPGA product family, expanding its leading IC verification portfolio

• Through the acquisition of proFPGA prototyping solutions, Siemens provides its well-known Veloce enterprise hardware-assisted verification system with a world-class mature desktop verification platform

• proFPGA technology provides an indispensable and rich solution, allowing IC and software to be verified in a real environment before the chip goes into production

Following the release of the next generation Veloce™ hardware-assisted verification system, Siemens Digital Industrial Software has signed an agreement with Germany-based PRO DESIGN Electronic to acquire its proFPGA product series with FPGA desktop prototyping technology. The series has currently served more than 100 customers, helping them to achieve "Shift-Left" in key hardware and software verification tasks, thereby shortening product time to market.

Siemens has previously reached an OEM partnership with PRO DESIGN to add proFPGA technology to the Siemens Xcelerator™ solution portfolio as part of its EDA IC verification product suite. Through this acquisition, Siemens can more completely integrate the scalable, high-performance prototyping platform for lab and desktop environments into the Veloce hardware-assisted verification system to achieve optimal results.

“We acquired the proFPGA business to continue to meet the needs of the world’s leading processor and SoC creators who require a complete verification solution tailored for their use cases, from IP to subsystems to SoCs,” said Dr. Ravi Subramanian, senior vice president of IC Verification at Siemens Digital Industries Software. “The addition of proFPGA desktop prototyping technology to our Veloce Primo enterprise-class FPGA prototyping system and Veloce Strato+ hardware accelerated emulation solution enables us to fully address our customers’ needs for fast verification cycles under a single, unified software programming model.”

In the meantime, PRO DESIGN will continue to operate as an independent company and provider of Electronic Engineering and Manufacturing Services (E²MS), offering consulting, development, layout and prototyping as well as volume production services. The company’s focus remains on providing FPGA-based solutions and PCIe boards for high-performance computing applications to customers in a variety of end markets.

“With more than 1,900 systems deployed at 120 active customers in 15 countries, proFPGA technology provides Siemens with a solid foothold to address the growing prototyping needs in data center, 5G, AI, automotive and IoT applications, where we continue to rapidly gain market share,” said Gunnar Scholl, Director of proFPGA Solutions at Siemens Digital Industries Software. “This acquisition also allows PRO DESIGN to continue to focus on investing in and serving its E²MS business customers, while enabling the proFPGA product family to continue to grow as Siemens expands in the EDA market.”

Siemens has completed the acquisition of PRO DESIGN's proFPGA product line. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.