PLANO, TX, June 1, 2026 – Siemens is extending its collaboration with Samsung Foundry for semiconductor design and manufacturing workflows. The work connects Siemens design, verification, simulation, and silicon manufacturing tools with Samsung Foundry process technologies for fabless chip companies worldwide.
Siemens continues to qualify and deploy its electronic design automation (EDA) software with Samsung Foundry’s process nodes. The collaboration covers design, verification, simulation, and silicon manufacturing support. The work focuses on design quality, development cycles, and first-pass silicon confidence at Samsung’s advanced nodes.
“Samsung Foundry continues to work closely with Siemens to support customers with robust, manufacturing-ready design flows across advanced process technologies,” said Hyung-Ock Kim, vice president and head of the Foundry Design technology team, Samsung Electronics. “Through our collaboration within the SAFE ecosystem, we are aligning proven EDA solutions with our process platforms to help customers address increasing design complexity, improve verification confidence, and accelerate innovation from design through manufacturing.”
“Our continued collaboration with Samsung Foundry reflects Siemens’ commitment to delivering production-ready EDA solutions aligned with the world’s most advanced process technologies,” said Ankur Gupta, executive vice president, IC Portfolio, Siemens EDA, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “By working closely with Samsung, we are helping mutual customers to manage design complexity and bring innovative products to market with greater confidence.”
Photonic Integrated Circuit Verification
Siemens and Samsung Foundry are expanding work in photonic integrated circuit (PIC) verification as photonic layouts become more complex. The verification flow uses Siemens Calibre software for equation-based design rule checking, curvilinear layout versus schematic verification, and advanced pattern matching. These functions support verification of curvilinear geometries and PIC designs within Samsung Foundry process flows.
Physical Verification and Layout Optimization
For physical verification and layout optimization, Calibre nmPlatform software is qualified for Samsung Foundry processes. The qualified tools include nmDRC, nmLVS, PERC, xACT, and Calibre DesignEnhancer. Samsung Foundry is working with Siemens to strengthen power-grid layouts through automation as power integrity demands rise. Samsung Foundry plans to release Calibre DesignEnhancer Pge for 2nm to improve power-grid structures and address electromigration and IR drop. DesignEnhancer Via and Pge apply DRC-clean metal and via layout changes. The integration supports earlier layout correction, engineering productivity, and design reliability at advanced nodes.
Design-for-Test and Yield Analysis
Siemens’ Tessent design-for-test portfolio supports scalable DFT methods for advanced-node yield analysis. The joint work focuses on defect-oriented test strategies and physical failure analysis to reduce defective parts per million. Samsung Foundry has established a chain diagnosis reference flow using Tessent HiRes Chain Diagnosis. The flow supports cell-aware, layout-aware, and silicon-proven global signal diagnosis for improved failure isolation.
Advanced Packaging and 3D IC Integration
Samsung Foundry has adopted Siemens software for its 2.3D Cube-E advanced package technology. Innovator3D IC Integrator supports early-stage full-project floor planning and faster response to design changes. Innovator3D IC layout automates daisy-chain netlist generation for designs with more than two million pins. Calibre 3DStack and Innovator3D IC perform DRC and LVS checks to verify design integrity for 2.5D and 3D IC implementations.
Analog, RF and Library Verification
For analog, RF, and library verification, Siemens’ Solido Simulation Suite is qualified for SPICE-accurate verification across Samsung Foundry process technologies. The suite includes Solido SPICE, Analog FastSPICE, and Solido LibSPICE. The collaboration includes first-time qualifications for automotive applications on 4nm and 2nm. It also supports third-generation 4nm and second-generation 2nm technologies, with updated model support for FD-SOI, FinFET, and MBCFET technologies from 18nm through 2nm. Solido SPICE and Analog FastSPICE support aging and reliability analysis through Open Model Interface support from 14nm through 2nm. The companies also formalized 2nm reference flows using Solido simulation, environment, characterization, and IP validation technologies.
Digital implementation
In digital implementation, Aprisa software is certified for Samsung Foundry process nodes. Siemens EDA continues to work with Samsung Foundry on performance, power, and area (PPA). The work supports design closure for chip designs using Samsung Foundry processes.
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 Samsung Foundry
Samsung Foundry is the contract chip manufacturing arm of Samsung Electronics. The business provides wafer fabrication, process technology, design support, intellectual property access and packaging services. Its offerings include 28FD-SOI, FinFET nodes, 3-nanometer gate-all-around processes, RF, embedded nonvolatile memory, high-voltage, BCD, image sensor and fingerprint sensor technologies. Samsung Foundry serves fabless chip companies, integrated device makers and system companies in mobile, 5G, automotive, high-performance computing, AI and IoT markets. The business operates sites in Giheung, Hwaseong and Pyeongtaek, South Korea, and in Austin and Taylor, Texas. Its headquarters are in Yongin, South Korea.