Siemens signed an agreement to acquire Santa Clara, CA-based Avatar Integrated Systems Inc, a leading developer of place and route software for integrated circuit (IC) design. The company helps engineers optimize power, performance, and area (PPA) for complex chips with fewer resources. Siemens plans to use Avatar’s technology to the Xcelerator portfolio as part of Mentor’s IC suite of software, capitalizing on the growing segment of place and route. The software will be integrated with existing market-leading products from Mentor, a Siemens Business, including the Calibre® platform, Tessent™ software, and Catapult™ HLS software, to help customers develop solutions that address today's and tomorrow's design implementation challenges.

“Avatar's innovative software architecture, as well as a reputation for ease of use, helps customers overcome this complexity with advanced node place and route capability. The Avatar solution, backed by Siemens’ investment, will offer customers shorter time to design closure with better PPA results than existing competitive offerings. We welcome the Avatar team and community to Siemens," said Joseph Sawicki, Executive Vice President, Mentor IC EDA, Siemens Digital Industries Software. 

"Avatar's approach can lead to excellent correlation through all phases of place and route, with improved PPA results. As a part of Siemens, Avatar can further develop this approach, accelerate R&D, and grow market share by leveraging a much larger pool of resources. We are proud of our technical achievements and well-known record for excellent customer support and look forward to enhancing these strengths as part of Siemens,” commented Ping San Tzeng, Chief Technical Officer, Avatar Integrated Systems.

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