Siemens Introduces Questa One, a Revolutionary AI-Powered Integrated Circuit (IC) Verification Solution for Faster and Smarter Semiconductor Design

Siemens Introduces Questa One, a Revolutionary AI-Powered Integrated Circuit (IC) Verification Solution for Faster and Smarter Semiconductor Design

(IN BRIEF) Siemens’ Questa One software solution is poised to reshape the IC verification landscape, addressing the industry’s growing complexity with AI-driven verification tools. Designed to cater to next-generation 3D-ICs and chiplet-based systems, Questa One accelerates verification cycles, enhances productivity, and enables seamless workflows. It promises a significant leap forward for engineers, providing them with advanced tools to tackle the increasing challenges of modern IC designs.

(PRESS RELEASE) MUNICH, 14-May-2025 — /EuropaWire/ — Siemens Digital Industries Software has unveiled the Questa™ One smart verification software portfolio, an innovative solution aimed at revolutionizing the integrated circuit (IC) verification process. This new tool incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to enhance productivity, reduce manual effort, and optimize verification cycles for complex designs such as 3D-ICs, chiplet-based systems, and software-defined architectures.

Questa One redefines the IC design and verification process, shifting it from a traditional reactive model to an intelligent, self-optimizing system. With this new solution, Siemens promises faster engines, enabling engineers to handle larger and more intricate designs from IP to system-on-a-chip (SoC) levels. Developed with industry advancements in mind, this smart verification tool allows for faster, more accurate verification, leading to a significant boost in overall productivity.

The platform’s breakthrough capabilities include:

• Questa One Coverage Acceleration: Achieving coverage goals 50 times faster than traditional methods, leveraging UVM constrained random test generation.
• DFT Simulation Acceleration: An 8x speedup in gate-level design-for-test (DFT) serial pattern simulations, integrated with Tessent™ Streaming Scan Network (SSN) architecture.
• Fault Simulation Acceleration: A 48x performance boost, supporting both functional safety and DFT fault simulation applications.
• Stimulus-Free Verification: A game-changer for engineers, reducing complex SoC-level designs’ processing times from 24 hours to under 1 minute using integrated AI-powered automation.
• Avery Verification IP: Enables protocol-aware debugging and coverage analytics, providing accelerated VIP for Questa One Sim, Veloce CS emulation, and prototyping systems.

The platform is built on three fundamental principles:

1. Connected Verification: Offering seamless integration across verification, validation, and test systems.
2. Data-Driven Verification: Utilizing AI to harness data insights, driving generative, prescriptive, and predictive machine learning for improved verification productivity.
3. Scalable Verification: Delivering the fastest verification speeds, optimizing resources, and ensuring the highest confidence in verification results.

Early adopters of Questa One, including major semiconductor firms like Arm, MediaTek, Microsoft, and Rambus, have reported significant improvements in performance and productivity. For instance, MediaTek has noted reduced engineering time and quicker regression cycles, while Microsoft has seen accelerated simulation times for their chip designs.

Questa One will be available for public use starting in June 2025, offering semiconductor and electronic systems industries an advanced, scalable solution to verify their most sophisticated designs efficiently and effectively.

Siemens Digital Industries (DI) empowers companies of all sizes within the process and discrete manufacturing industries to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformation across the entire value chain. Siemens’ cutting-edge automation and software portfolio revolutionizes the design, realization and optimization of products and production. And with Siemens Xcelerator – the open digital business platform – this process is made even easier, faster, and scalable. Together with our partners and ecosystem, Siemens Digital Industries enables customers to become a sustainable Digital Enterprise. Siemens Digital Industries has a workforce of around 70,000 people worldwide.

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