Revolutionizing the EU Automotive Industry: Thalia’s Collaboration with Siemens Cre8Ventures Digital Twin Marketplace

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What Thalia Does

Thalia is renowned for its cutting-edge semiconductor design migration solutions, focusing on providing efficient, high-quality, and cost-effective IP migration technologies. Their expertise lies in:

• Analog/Mixed-Signal Design Migration: Specializing in migrating and transforming analogue and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs). Thalia ensures IP designs in the target process technologies deliver high performance and low power consumption, which are essential for modern automotive applications.
• IP Reuse: Thalia’s proprietary IP reuse platform, AMALIA, allows faster design cycles and significantly reduces cost by enabling the reuse of proven semiconductor designs from source process technology to one or more target process technologies. This can be driven by various factors, from securing second sourcing to navigating geopolitical challenges to responding to market technology advancements or chip availability.
• Design Automation: By leveraging advanced algorithms, AI and machine learning, Thalia enhances design automation, significantly reducing the time and effort required in semiconductor design and IP reuse processes.

Siemens Cre8Ventures Digital Twin Marketplace

The Siemens Cre8Ventures Digital Twin Marketplace is a pioneering platform that offers a comprehensive suite of digital twin solutions. This marketplace enables companies to create, manage, and analyze digital twins of physical assets, thereby improving design processes, optimizing performance, and enhancing predictive maintenance capabilities.

Synergy Between Thalia and Siemens Cre8Ventures Digital Twin Marketplace

The collaboration between Thalia and the Siemens Cre8Ventures Digital Twin Marketplace is poised to deliver numerous benefits to the EU automotive industry. Here are some benefits of such a partnership:

1. Enhanced Design Accuracy and Efficiency:
   • Digital Twins Integration: Thalia’s semiconductor design solutions will be integrated with Siemens’ digital twin technology, enabling precise simulations and modelling of automotive components.
   • Predictive Analysis: By leveraging digital twins, Thalia can predict the behaviour of customer semiconductor designs under various conditions, ensuring reliability and performance.
2. Accelerated Innovation:
   • Rapid Prototyping: Thalia and Siemens’ combined expertise will facilitate rapid prototyping of new automotive technologies, shortening development cycles and accelerating time to market.

Siemens & Thalia platforms working together to leverage digital twinning

2. AI and Machine Learning: Both companies’ focus on AI and machine learning will enhance design and IP reuse automation, allowing faster delivery of innovative solutions to the market.
3. Cost Reduction and Sustainability:
   • Resource Optimization: Thalia’s IP reuse technology, combined with Siemens’ digital twin capabilities, will optimize resource utilization, reducing cost and environmental impact.
   • Sustainable Design: Enhanced simulation and predictive maintenance will lead to more sustainable designs, minimizing waste and energy consumption and helping companies achieve their environmental goals.

Supporting the EU Chips Act

The EU Chips Act aims to strengthen Europe’s semiconductor ecosystem, ensuring the region remains competitive globally. The Thalia-Siemens collaboration aligns perfectly with this initiative by:

• Boosting Semiconductor Capabilities: This partnership enhances semiconductor design and manufacturing processes, supporting the EU Chips Act’s goal of doubling the EU’s share of global semiconductor production by 2030.
• Fostering Innovation: Collaboration fosters an innovative environment, encouraging the development of new technologies and applications within Europe.
•  Creating a Robust Supply Chain: Strengthening the semiconductor supply chain within Europe, reducing dependence on external sources, and enhancing economic resilience.

Conclusion

The partnership between Thalia and the Siemens Cre8Ventures Digital Twin Marketplace is set to revolutionize the EU automotive industry. By combining their strengths in semiconductor IP design reuse and digital twin technology, they are driving innovation, enhancing efficiency, and supporting the objectives of the EU Chips Act. This collaboration promises to deliver cutting-edge automotive solutions and strengthen Europe’s position in the global semiconductor landscape.

Stay tuned as Thalia and Siemens continue to push the boundaries of technology, paving the way for a brighter, more efficient, and sustainable future in the automotive industry.

About Thalia Design Automation:

Thalia is an IP migration specialist with expertise in targeted automation for analogue, mixed-signal and RF design and migration. Thalia’s AMALIA software platform analyzes, migrates and optimizes existing IP for new technologies and applications. IP houses, Tier 1 players and foundries can leverage the platform to reuse existing IP and diversify their product ranges quickly and cost-effectively thanks to AMALIA’s AI and ML capabilities that deliver outstanding efficiencies in the analysis, design and verification stages of IP reuse. The result is a reduction in development time of at least 40%, enabling semiconductor businesses to react quickly to changing market demands and maximize business opportunities. The AMALIA platform has been validated on over 50 IPs in domains ranging from RF and Baseband to PMIC and PLL/ADC, many of which are already commercially used.

Stay tuned to our blog for further updates on this exciting venture as we continue to cover the developments in this transformative collaboration.

For more information about Dream Chip and Siemens’ Cre8Ventures, visit our website or contact Carson Bradbury, Director – EU Chips Act & Co-founder Cre8Ventures (carson.bradbury@siemens.com)