Keysight Technologies acquires Cliosoft to expand EDA software portfolio

Keysight Technologies, an advanced design and validation solutions provider, has acquired Cliosoft, a system-on-chip design data and enterprise IP management solutions developer, for an undisclosed amount.

The transaction is expected to help Keysight Technologies digitally transform design-test workflows and meet the productivity requirements of next-generation electronic product development lifecycles.

Keysight Technologies anticipates natively integrate Cliosoft’s revision-control and data and IP management capabilities with PathWave Advanced Design System.

With the acquisition, the American manufacturer of electronics test and measurement equipment and software, will expand its portfolio of electronic design automation (EDA) solutions by adding Cliosoft’s line of hardware design data and intellectual property (IP) management software products.

Keysight Technologies’ EDA software offering will now include process and data management (PDM) capabilities used by over 400 global semiconductor and electronics systems customers to manage electronic design data and intellectual property.

Keysight Technologies acquires Cliosoft to expand EDA software portfolio. Photo courtesy of Keysight Technologies.

Niels Faché — Keysight Technologies EDA Vice President and General Manager, said: “One of our top business priorities is creating digital, connected workflows from design to test that accelerate customers’ digital transformation.

“We see a tremendous opportunity in the PDM space to leverage Cliosoft’s current capabilities combined with our design-test solutions expertise.

“Adding PDM solutions to the portfolio is a natural progression of our open EDA interoperability strategy to deliver best-in-class tools and workflows in support of increasingly complicated product development lifecycles. Cliosoft offers proven software tools that enable product teams to perform data analytics and accelerate time to insight. The result of faster insight and greater reuse is improved productivity in the verification phase and shorter overall development cycles.”

Cliosoft SOS, a data management platform, already integrates with Keysight Technologies’ Advanced Design System (ADS) solution as part of long-standing industry collaboration between the two companies.

Keysight Technologies said that the combined entity will continue to offer revision control and data and IP management solutions through EDA industry relationships, including Cadence, MathWorks, Empyrean Silvaco, Siemens EDA, and Synopsys environments.

PathWave Design, a division of Keysight Technologies, produced Advanced Design System, an electronic design automation software system.