PLANO, TX, Dec 4, 2025 – Certus Semiconductor adopted Siemens’ Solido software to accelerate custom integrated circuit (IC) design work for Input/output (IO) and Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) protection IP. The tools will support development for automotive, aerospace, mobile, industrial, AI and IoT applications by improving variation analysis and reliability for interface and protection devices.
“Certus Semiconductor has accelerated its IP development process using Siemens’ industry-leading EDA tools,” said Stephen Fairbanks, chief executive officer, Certus Semiconductor. “Analog is at the very core of what we design, and its quality cannot be compromised for the mission-critical applications we support. Our collaboration with Siemens enables us to enhance our methodologies tremendously with its custom IC verification technologies to keep pace with the increasing challenges of advanced process nodes and market demand for our products and services.”
“Certus’ successful deployment of Solido Custom IC solutions across its workflow validates that AI is a game changer for mission-critical analog and radio frequency designs at advanced process nodes,” said Amit Gupta, senior vice president and general manager, Siemens EDA, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “By bringing AI-powered performance and optimization to the entire workflow, we enable design teams to accelerate development for automotive, aerospace, and industrial applications – while maintaining the precision and reliability these markets demand.”
Certus develops ESD protection solutions for radio-frequency (RF), transceiver and high-voltage applications, and supplies multi-protocol IOs, RF radios and analog IP such as data converters, oscillators and regulators. The company also provides radiation-hard, automotive-grade and low-power customizations for specific designs.
Certus has deployed its solutions across foundry technologies using Solido design environment for nominal and variation-aware design verification, Solido characterization suite for .lib production and verification, Solido IP validation suite for IP quality assurance across design views, and Solido simulation suite for SPICE-accurate verification, all of which are part of Siemens’ AI-powered Solido custom IC solutions.
Source: Siemens
About Siemens Digital Industries Software
Siemens Digital Industries Software, a business unit of Siemens AG, provides industrial software, hardware and related services through the Siemens Xcelerator platform. The company’s portfolio includes product lifecycle management, electronic design automation, simulation and digital twin tools, manufacturing operations management and low-code application development. These products support design, engineering and production workflows across sectors such as aerospace and defense, automotive, electronics and semiconductors, machinery, medical devices and process manufacturing. Siemens Digital Industries Software traces its origins to 1963 as United Computing, later becoming Siemens PLM Software in 2007 before adopting its current name. It supplies technologies that help organizations manage product, process data, and improve development and manufacturing efficiency across a range of industrial applications.
About Certus Semiconductor
Certus Semiconductor, headquartered in Mesa, AZ, provides custom input and output libraries, electrostatic-discharge protection IP and analog and digital interface solutions for system-on-chip designs. The company supplies multi-voltage and multi-protocol GPIO and ODIO libraries, high-speed interface IP and support for standards such as I²C, SPI, eMMC and SerDes. Its portfolio includes ESD protection cells, level shifters, mixed-signal interfaces and reliability-focused IP across process nodes ranging from 180 nanometers to 5 nanometers. Certus serves customers in automotive, industrial, medical, networking, consumer-electronics, telecom and IoT markets. It works with semiconductor developers that require customized interface IP and foundry-agnostic design flows that meet ESD, voltage and performance requirements. Certus was founded in the mid-2010s.