Siemens Digital Industries Software has signed an exclusive OEM agreement for its EDA business to bring Alphawave Semi's portfolio of high-speed interconnect silicon IP to market through its sales channel. This includes Alphawave Semi's industry-leading IP platforms for connectivity and memory protocols such as Ethernet, PCIe, CXL, HBM and UCIe (die-to-die) implementations. In addition to the IP channel agreement, both companies will work together to deliver comprehensive Spec to Silicon solutions by jointly engaging with customers and leveraging their respective capabilities and strengths.

As a result of this agreement, customers will have accelerated access to Alphawave Semi's AI-driven advanced silicon IP platforms through Siemens' extensive global EDA sales force. These platforms consist of complete silicon IP building blocks that customers can license and integrate into advanced system-on-chip (SoC) designs, including implementations of 3D-IC and chiplet-based technologies. The solutions are particularly important for customers in key technology growth markets such as AI, autonomous vehicles, data networking, hyperscaling and storage - markets where 3D-IC designs, chiplets and advanced manufacturing nodes are critical.

"The addition of Alphawave Semi’s silicon IP introduces industry leading technology to our customers, empowering them to achieve unprecedented advances across diverse industries in dramatically shortened timescales," said Mike Ellow, CEO, Siemens EDA, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “We look forward to collaborating with Alphawave Semi to deliver state-of-the-art IP that addresses the most complex connectivity challenges, at the world’s leading advanced process nodes.”  

Alphawave delivers proven, multi-standard silicon IP platforms that enable faster data transmission and greater reliability with lower power for designs in 7nm, 6nm, 5nm and beyond. “Siemens Digital Industries Software is a key and trusted partner for AI and hyperscaler developers, and our agreement simplifies and speeds the process of developing SoCs for these, and other leading-edge technologies, to incorporate Alphawave Semi’s IP,” said Tony Pialis, president and CEO, Alphawave Semi. “Our technologies play a critical role in reducing interconnect bottlenecks and this collaboration greatly expands our customer reach, allowing more companies to deliver next-level data processing.”

As a major partner, Siemens will be associated with Alphawave Semi's PHY, controller and subsystem platform IP optimised for advanced technology nodes, either individually or in conjunction with Siemens' comprehensive range of EDA tools and services. 

With this agreement, Siemens will offer

• PHY IP: Alphawave Semi's industry-leading portfolio of multi-standard connectivity IP covering Ethernet, PCIe, CXL and die-to-die applications. These IPs support a wide range of data rates from 1Gbps to 224Gbps used in over 30 different industry protocols/standards.
• Controller IP: Siemens will offer MultiChannel/MultiRate Ethernet, PCIe, PCIe/CXL Combo, D2D Streaming and HBM3E memory controllers, which together represent the industry's leading and most comprehensive portfolio of interface controller IP solutions.  Covering the most widely used interfaces for connectivity, these IPs offer low power, area and latency while targeting data centre, telecom, cloud computing, AI, NPU and 5G wireless applications.
• Subsystem platforms: Siemens' offering will also include Alphawave Semi's subsystem platforms, which combine industry-leading PHY IP and interface controller IP for an efficient total design solution.

Siemens and Alphawave Semi's sales and solutions teams are joining forces to address the growing demand for custom silicon and chiplet-based ASICs in the AI era. Together, they will offer a comprehensive solution stack from initial concepts to finished production parts. The collaboration aims to serve high-growth markets in AI, HPC and networking, offering flexible business models tailored to different customer categories.