Ximen launches new smart verification solutions to accelerate verification processes, improve human efficiency and production capacity
Ximen Digital Industrial Software announced the launch of the Questa One smart verification software product combination, combining connectivity, data drive methods and expansion with AI technology, breaking through the limitations of the overall circuit (IC) verification process and helping the engineering team improve work efficiency.
Ximunzi pointed out that the Questa One smart verification solution will be officially launched in June 2025. The new solution integrates the automation of AI drives, no connection between prediction and analysis, and workflow, which can greatly accelerate the verification process, reduce manual investment and improve production capacity.
Ximunzi said that Questa One can significantly improve engineer efficiency, reduce workloads, and support large-scale complex designs from IP to system single chip (SoC) to large systems. When it was developed, Questa One also fully considered the architecture of advanced 3D-IC, chiplet-based design and software definition.
Abhi Kolpekwar, deputy president and general manager of the Digital Verification Technology Department of Digital Industrial Software at Ximen, said that Questa One has reformed the IC design process to solve the problem of verification production capacity gaps, while helping engineers to face the increasingly complex IC design challenges. This solution uses new technology to provide the fastest functionality, failure and formal verification engine today. Customers believe that only effective capabilities are not enough, and they need to achieve deeper connections in the verification, confirmation and testing process, which is exactly what Questa One has.
Questa One smart verification solution was developed by Ximen and industry leaders in cooperation with industry leaders. It has strong connection, data drive and expandable features, which helps to break through the bottleneck with a 2.0 production capacity gap. Among them, technologies such as 3D-IC, small chip design and software definition architecture are becoming increasingly complex, and the shortage of talents has further augmented these complexities. At the same time, the demand for higher safety, reduced power consumption, reliability and sustainability is also increasing.
Ximun pointed out that the Questa One smart verification solution is based on three core principles. First, its Connected Verification software connects engineers, EDA tools and verification IP to form a tight ecological system; the Data-Driven Verification software uses the power of data to bring new insights and improve verification efficiency through the analysis capabilities of AI drive; Scalable Verification The software provides excellent acceleration and automation capabilities, which enables the fastest verification of the end and brings the highest confidence.
Huang Jianlin, senior technical manager of the Connected Technology Department of the Joint Technology Department, said that as an early user of Questa One, the Contact Department has been able to use formal verification and simulation technology to improve the work efficiency of engineers in the entire verification process. Questa One Property Assist uses generative AI to save weeks of engineering time, while Questa One Regression Navigator can predict which simulation tests are most likely to fail, and run these tests first to save days of recovery and trial time.
Microsilicon Engineering Vice President Selim Bilgin pointed out that Questa One DFT (QDX) simulation uses provide faster performance than existing simulation solutions, shortening verification time from weeks to days. In addition to significant speed improvements, QDX also brings up to 20% performance boosts to the microscope Azure Cobalt 100 platform, delivering higher efficiency for EDA workloads.
