Siemens is to buy UltraSoC and integrate its technology  into the Xcelerator portfolio  of Mentor’s Tessent software product suite.

The addition of UltraSoC to Siemens enables a unified data-driven infrastructure that can enhance product quality, safety and cybersecurity and help customers overcome key pain points like manufacturing defects, software and hardware bugs, device early-failure and wear-out, functional safety, and malicious attacks.

Paying tribute to the UltraSoC team, CEO Rupert Baines singled out the CTO Gajinder (Gadge) Panesar (pictured) and cracked  “every start-up needs a scary looking CTO and we win that competition.”

“Siemens’ acquisition of UltraSoC means that for the first time our customers can access not just design-for-test, but a comprehensive ‘Design for Lifecycle Management’ solution for system-on-chips, including functional safety, security and optimization,” says Siemens’ Brady Benware.

UltraSoC’s technology embeds monitoring hardware into complex SoCs to enable “fab-to-field” analytics capabilities designed to accelerate silicon bring-up, optimize product performance, and confirm that devices are operating “as designed” for functional safety and cybersecurity purposes.

Tessent specialises in chip design-for-test (DFT).