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<span style='color:red'>Siemens</span> and Synopsys settle Mentor Graphics patent litigation and team up to expand and extend EDA collaboration

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Siemens and Synopsys settle Mentor Graphics patent litigation and team up to expand and extend EDA collaboration

Siemens PLM Software and Synopsys have agreed to work together, settling their five-years of patent quarrels between Synopsys and Mentor Graphics.The settlement includes mutual seven-year patent cross-licenses between Synopsys and Siemens, and between Synopsys and Mentor Graphics.The partnership will see the two collaborate on electronic design automation (EDA) product interoperability projects for the benefit of their mutual customers, spanning a number of EDA domains from design to verification.“With the increasing complexity in electronics driven by AI, automotive, industrial and other high-impact markets, semiconductor and systems companies are grappling with design challenges from the roots of silicon all the way up to the application software,” said Aart de Geus, chairman and co-CEO of Synopsys. “We look forward to working with Siemens to provide increasingly powerful EDA and related solutions to our mutual customers.”“Our customers are rapidly adopting electronic design automation as part of their digitalisation strategy. Interoperability is a critical aspect of enabling customers not only in EDA but in the broader context of system development,” stated Tony Hemmelgarn, CEO of Siemens PLM Software. “Siemens is very committed to EDA and we are looking forward to our interoperability partnership with Synopsys.”

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Siemens,Synopsys

Release time：2018-07-10 00:00 reading：2131 Continue reading>>

<span style='color:red'>Siemens</span> Buys Agilion to Boost IoT

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Siemens Buys Agilion to Boost IoT

　　Siemens has acquired German wireless location solutions developer Agilion GmbH to boost its real-time location systems (RTLS) offering in the ultra-wideband (UWB) frequency spectrum for factory automation and automated guided vehicles (AGVs).　　Targeting applications like smart factories and logistics, RTLS enables precise monitoring of the production process and a transparent material flow. Real-time data made available using RTLS about the location and status of assets forms the basis for networking involved players and logistical processes along the value chain. This allows users to continuously and automatically compare the position of every production asset with the 3D model (or digital twin) of the product or production environment. Evaluation and combination of this digital twin with other information — for instance, using apps in the company’s IoT operating system, MindSphere — permit dynamic optimization of production and logistics processes.　　"By acquiring Agilion, we’ll be in a position to also offer real-time locating solutions straight away," said Herbert Wegmann, head of Siemens’ industrial communication and identification business segment.　　Wegmann added: "RTLS is an essential key technology and a new step on the road toward flexible automation in production — for instance, by providing dynamic self-organizing production concepts in the assembly of large-scale products. Real-time locating also enables the safe, efficient use of collaborative mobile robots."　　Agilion GmbH was established in 2004 and has a workforce of 60 at its location in Chemnitz, Germany. It now becomes a fully owned subsidiary of Siemens and integrated into the Process Industries and Drives Division’s industrial communication and identification business. The parties did not disclose the purchase price.　　Siemens says that in the smart factory of the future, RTLS will supply the essential foundation for the use of intelligent production units, involving the cooperation of different production facilities such as transport vehicles and mobile robots with machines and plants. At the same time, the actual location of a machine or robot will become a variable factor, meaning that an autonomously controlled, highly efficient work flow can be organized only with knowledge of the current spatial configuration of the factory.　　UWB-based RTLS solutions permit a complete production floor and thousands of assets to be equipped, taking RTLS technology out of the niche role that it currently occupies and making it available to serve as the infrastructure for multiple applications. In an RTLS implementation, active transponders are attached to toolholders, tools, AGVs, robots, and other products. These transponders can be automatically located within fractions of a second and their position transmitted to the control systems. The use over the UWB spectrum means that the low transmission level prevents them from interfering with other systems but in a comparatively large frequency spectrum (3–7 GHz). This enables high locating precision.　　The active transponders emit a radio signal at defined intervals, which is received by at least three anchors, each synchronized with the other. The anchors transmit the collected data together with the transponder ID number and the receiving time, measured with ultra-high accuracy, via a gateway to the locating server. This software calculates the position of each transponder using time difference of arrival (TDOA). Accuracy is increased using flanking measures such as automatic correlation of RTLS position data with the 3D model of the product and production environment stored in the digital twin.　　The use of UWB and TDOA allows the accuracy of RTLS systems to be increased to within just a few centimeters in production environments. Using TDOA also helps significantly extend the life of transponder batteries, providing the assurance of reliable function over several years. Using UWB, transponders can also be equipped with a data interface and combined, for instance, with the robot controller, making the location information available not only over the higher-level system but also directly to the robot itself with only a negligible delay.

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Siemens,Agilion

Release time：2018-04-12 00:00 reading：2003 Continue reading>>

<span style='color:red'>Siemens</span> Acquires Solido Design Automation

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Siemens Acquires Solido Design Automation

　　Siemens announced it agreed to buy Solido Design Automation, a Canadian provider of variation-aware design and characterization software to the semiconductor industry. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.　　The deal is the first acquisition in the EDA arena for Munich-based Siemens since it bought Mentor Graphics for $4.5 billion earlier this year. Solido will become part of Mentor's IC verification solutions division.　　"We see a great opportunity to expand the reach of Solido's technology across our customer base," said Ravi Subramanian, vice president and general manager of Mentor’s IC verification solutions division, in an interview with EE Times. In addition to continuing to support Solido's existing customers and bring Solido's machine learning-based design and characterization software to existing Mentor customers across its product lines, Mentor intends to package tools from both firms to target new customers, Subramanian said.　　Solido is a venture-capital backed firm founded in 2005 in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Solido's Variation Designer IC design tool is used for variation-aware design of memory, analog/RF, and standard cells, while its characterization sweet offers fast and accurate library characterization tools that incorporate machine learning technology.　　According to Amit Gupta, Solido's founder, president and CEO, Solido has been growing rapidly and has been featured for two consecutive years on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 list of the fastest growing tech firms.　　"Becoming part of Mentor now is a tremendous opportunity for us to get broader adoption for our technolgy," Gupta told EE Times. "We are excited about getting the reach of Mentor's channel to get our products more broadly adopted in the market."　　The deal provides a glimpse of what may be more aggressive movement on the merger and acquisition front under the Siemens umbrella. Mentor has traditionally been less active in M&A than its main rivals, Synopsys and Cadence Design. Subramanian said Siemens' ownership gives it both the commitment to EDA and the deeper pockets to "selectively pursue" acquisitions that make sense for growing Mentor's business.　　"Siemens offers greater resources and the ability to pursue the right acquisitions with the right ROI," Subramanian said.　　Solido and its roughly 65 employees, including Gupta, will be folded into Mentor. The company believes its location in Saskatchewan gives it access to a broad pool of talent. Mentor expects the deal to close early next month.

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Siemens,Solido,Automation

Release time：2017-11-21 00:00 reading：2006 Continue reading>>

<span style='color:red'>Siemens</span> Doubles Down on Automotive Simulation

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Siemens Doubles Down on Automotive Simulation

　　Siemens announced plans to buy for an undisclosed sum Tass International (Helmond, The Netherlands), an established simulation software company in the global automotive industry for 25 years.　　For skeptics wondering what motivated Siemens to acquire EDA vendor Mentor Graphics (in a deal that closed earlier this year), Siemens’ acquisition of Tass International closes the circle, making clear that “automotive” was a key thread connecting Siemens, Siemens PLM Software and Mentor.　　The Siemens-Tass deal adds automated driving solutions to Siemens’ portfolio, providing a shot in the arm for Siemens PLM Software, which now owns Mentor.　　Siemens said Tass' “simulation software and engineering and test services” will strengthen the automotive wing of Siemens’ PLM Software. The plan is to combine Tass’ software with Mentor’s EDA solutions “to frontload the verification and validation of ADAS and autonomous driving systems,” according to Siemens.　　Phil Magney, founder and principal advisor for Vision Systems Intelligence (VSI), told us, “This is pretty important acquisition for Siemens because simulation is such as important element of automated vehicle solutions.” He believes that the Tass portfolio “helps companies at various phases in the development of automated vehicle functions.”　　Siemens is convinced that connected and autonomous vehicles will set a high bar for the automotive industry in meeting requirements for virtual and physical validation and verification. “The increased complexity of the involved mechatronic systems, the interaction with the environment, and the increased liability risks due to a shift of responsibility from driver to system require an integrated product development approach,” a Siemens PLM Software spokeswoman told us. For that, Tass' offerings are critical.　　Physics-based simulator　　So, what’s Tass' claim-to-fame in automotive?　　The Dutch company, on its website, cites its “unique development methodology, offering a set of advanced simulation software tools, tailor-made engineering solutions and state-of-the-art testing and certification facilities and services.”　　The Siemens PLM Software spokeswoman added, “Tass also broadens our current engineering and testing services offerings into homologations [the process of certifying a vehicle to indicate that it meets regulatory standards and specifications], cooperative mobility, crash testing, tyre testing, vehicle hardware-in-the-loop and integrated vehicle safety.”　　VSI’s Magney sees the value of Tass offerings in “a real physics-based simulator.”　　“From early-level algorithm development to functional validation of software components, Tass provides a simulator where the developers can design their own scenarios and model various sensor configurations at an early stage,” Magney noted.　　VSI, which tracks the building blocks of automated vehicles by putting together its own autonomous cars, uses Tass simulation software. Magney said, “Earlier this year, VSI was able to develop and test its own algorithms in a virtual world before we ported them to our vehicle.”　　He noted, “Since Tass offers a true physics engine (vs. a gaming engine), we were able to fine tune the behavior of our control algorithms long before we deployed them on a test vehicle!”　　Indeed, simulation is becoming a hotly sought-after field with vital importance for automated vehicle development. “For example, simulation allows you to test for infinite scenarios and/or combinations of parameters,” said Magney, calling it “something you cannot do in the real world.”　　He added, “Simulation also plays a role in developing AI based algorithms because you can use environment simulation to train the algorithms rather than collecting and annotating your own data sets. And since simulated data contains ground truth and actual physics models, the data is well suited for algorithm training.”　　Roadmap　　Asked about the integration roadmap, the Siemens PLM Software spokeswoman explained Tass' simulation software will combine with her company's “Simcenter” portfolio and the Mentor Graphics portfolio, “for a fully integrated solution for design exploration and frontloaded verification and validation of ADAS and Autonomous Driving systems.”　　“Simcenter” is a software developed by Siemens PLM Software. It “combines system simulation, 3D Computer Aided Engineering and test to help you predict performance across all critical attributes earlier and throughout the entire product lifecycle,” according to the company. “By combining physics-based simulations with insights gained from data analytics, Simcenter helps you optimize design and deliver innovations faster and with greater confidence.”　　Siemens will acquire 100 percent of the share capital of Tass and integrate the business into its PLM Software business unit. Tass, with about 200 employees, has annual revenue of around 27 million euros ($32.3 million).　　The deal is expected to close in early September.

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Siemens,Automotive Simulation

Release time：2017-09-01 00:00 reading：2267 Continue reading>>

<span style='color:red'>Siemens</span> Lays Out Vision for Mentor

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Siemens Lays Out Vision for Mentor

　　When Siemens AG agreed last November to buy Mentor Graphics Corp. for $4.5 billion, it wasn't the first time that the German conglomerate had entertained the idea of swallowing the Portland, Ore.-based EDA software vendor.　　Turns out that the two companies had had what executives termed a "fly by" some nine years before. When rival Cadence Design Systems Inc. launched a hostile takeover attempt of Mentor in 2008, Siemens was one of several potential white knight acquirers that CEO Walden Rhines reached out to.　　Rhines gave a presentation to Chuck Grindstaff, then chief technical officer of Siemens PLM Software. Siemens ultimately passed on the opportunity and Cadence eventually withdrew its acquisition offer Mentor's board failed to cooperate and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission indicated it would be taking a hard look at the deal.　　But even before the "fly by," Grindstaff, now the executive chairman at Siemens PLM, had envisioned the integration of a software company that specialized in electronic design and his firm, which mainly provides software for product lifecycle management and manufacturing operations.　　"This idea of putting two companies like us together has been in my head for 20 years," Grindstaff said during an interview with trade press editors at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) here Tuesday (June 20). He added that it was just a matter of waiting for the technologies to evolve to the point where the disruption in the marketplace caused by such a deal would be manageable compared with what could be gained from the synergies involved.　　During the meeting with the press and a keynote address earlier in the morning, Grindstaff made a persuasive case for the combination of the two firms at a time when Siemens PLM customers—mostly system vendors from across various industies—are increasingly designing their own chips for inclusion in their products.

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Release time：2017-06-23 00:00 reading：2012 Continue reading>>

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