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Thalia and X-FAB Forge Strategic Partnership to Safeguard Supply and Accelerate IP Migration

by thaliadaeditorNews

Cwmbran, United Kingdom – 23rd September 2025 – Thalia Design Automation, a leader in analog, mixed-signal and RF IP migration solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with X-FAB, the world’s leading analog/mixed-signal specialty foundry.
The partnership will provide X-FAB customers with advanced migration capabilities to transition designs quickly and cost‑effectively to long‑term, secure process technologies.

The partnership addresses critical market challenges including end-of-life process technologies and supply chain security, where semiconductor companies must rapidly migrate existing designs to ensure continuity of supply.  As customers seek greater flexibility and resilience in their supply chains, the combined expertise of Thalia and X-FAB ensures a seamless design transfer.  This is critical to protect product lifecycles, maintain market commitments and minimize business disruption.

The agreement provides Thalia with access to X-FAB’s Process Design Kits (PDKs), enabling its AI-powered AMALIA Platform to be optimized for X-FAB’s specialist process portfolio.  This delivers migration outcomes precisely tuned to X-FAB’s technologies, preserving design integrity and meeting demanding performance and qualification requirements.

“By integrating Thalia’s migration technology into our ecosystem, we are offering customers a proven method to prolong their revenue streams even in case of unavoidable process changes,” said Damien Macq, COO at X-FAB.  “This partnership aims to enhance customer confidence, secure long-term supply and support the use of our specialty technologies throughout their full products’ lifecycle.  It demonstrates how we assist customers in maintaining competitiveness in changing market conditions.”

For X-FAB customers, the AMALIA Platform significantly reduces the complexity and cost of migrating existing designs while preserving critical performance metrics.  Automated layout porting and optimization, combined with silicon-proven validation, enable faster time-to-market compared to traditional manual redesign methods.

“We’re excited to bring our migration expertise to X-FAB’s global customer base,” said Sowmyan Rajagopalan, CEO of Thalia. “By combining our AI-driven automation with X-FAB’s world-class manufacturing capabilities, we are enabling customers to respond quickly to market or supply changes while unlocking the benefits of X-FAB’s unique specialty processes.”

About X-FAB

X-FAB is a global foundry group providing a comprehensive set of specialty technologies and design IP to enable its customers to develop world-leading semiconductor products that are manufactured at X-FAB’s six wafer fabs located in Malaysia, Germany, France, and the United States.  With its expertise in analog/mixed-signal technologies, microsystems/MEMS, Photonics, silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN), X-FAB is the development and manufacturing partner for its customers, primarily serving the automotive, industrial and medical end markets.  X-FAB has approximately 4,500 employees and has been listed on Euronext Paris since April 2017 (XFAB). For more information, please visit www.xfab.com.

About Thalia Design Automation

Thalia is a leading provider of analog, mixed-signal and RF IP design migration solutions. The company’s AMALIA Platform harnesses advanced automation and AI/ML technology to streamline the migration process, enabling semiconductor companies to reduce time, cost and complexity while optimizing their ability to create innovative applications. Thalia serves customers worldwide across automotive, communications, consumer electronics and industrial markets. For more information, visit thalia-da.com.

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EETimes : EDA tool preserves floorplan, intelligence in analog IP design migration

by thaliadaeditorNewsNews & Events

On the announcement of the new version of AMALIA, Nitin Dahad, editor-in-chief of EE Times, meets Sowmyan Rajagopalan for an advance briefing and video interview.

Visit EETimes web pages for the full article https://www.eetimes.com/eda-tool-preserves-floorplan-intelligence-in-analog-ip-design-migration/

Summary

In a recent interview, Sowmyan Rajagopalan, founder and CEO of Thalia Design Automation, discussed exciting new features introduced in the latest version of their IP reuse platform, Amalia. Among these advancements are notable offerings such as the Layout Automation Suite, aimed primarily at streamlining chip reuse, and the automated migration of analog integrated circuits. Rajagopalan highlighted that these developments could reduce layout migration times by 30-40%, ultimately modernising processes that traditionally lacked automation, especially in the analog and mixed-signal design sectors.

The discussion also delved into the historical evolution of Amalia, starting from its inception in 2011 to its significant advancements since venture funding in 2014. Thalia’s specialised focus on analog and mixed-signal design allows their platform to provide a unique automated flow for designing and migrating between semiconductor technologies. Rajagopalan emphasised the importance of retaining existing topological intelligence during the migration process to minimise risks associated with redesign. With an aim to position Amalia as the benchmark in its field, Rajagopalan outlined his vision for the company, focusing on customer engagement, expanding market opportunities, and enhancing the overall user experience in chip design.

Key topics & insights

🛠️   Necessity of automation in analog design

⚙️   Integration of Machine Learning

🏢   Strong client base and strategic partnerships

🏁   Feedback-driven development

🔍   Preserving topological intelligence

📊   Industry impact

💡   Visionary roadmap

Thalia adds analog and mixed-signal IP reuse to Siemens’ Cre8Ventures Digital Twin Marketplace

by Sou Bennani-McCordNews

Thalia and Siemens are collaborating to incorporate the AMALIA IP reuse design automation platform for analog and mixed-signal electronics into Siemens’ digital twin ecosystem.

Change in the automotive industry is continuing apace, encompassing the entire range of technologies from sensing and AI. As part of this evolution, most semiconductor electronics have an analog, RF or mixed-signal electronics IP block that needs to be transitioned and implemented into new process technology nodes. As these developments progress, the industry is moving increasingly towards the use of digital twins to assist in design and production, troubleshoot field issues and create a feedback loop for informing next-generation product development leveraging data from electronics used in the field.

A digital twin exists in the virtual world: effectively an extended virtual version of an entire product in software. The concept is particularly powerful for the automotive industry: the safety-critical nature of vehicles mandates in-depth analysis of the whole system; moreover, a few hours of simulation and modeling can replace weeks of real-world road testing of a new electronics design or sub-system; the impact of design changes can be rapidly assessed in the digital domain; and field data can be fed back into the digital twin model to inform continuous refinement of the product.

In this context, the word “digital” in “digital twin”, means a digital representation of a whole complex system. Including, of course, complex real world cyberphysical behaviors and analog electronics.

Analog, mixed-signal and RF IP reuse is where AMALIA, Thalia’s cutting-edge semiconductor design migration solution, excels. And hence the reason why Thalia and Siemens – the technology leader in digital twin solutions – have teamed up to add analysis of analog semiconductor products to the Siemens Cre8Ventures Digital Twin Marketplace.

The Siemens Cre8Ventures Digital Twin Marketplace offers a comprehensive suite of digital twin solutions through partnerships with leading providers of design automation and intellectual property. The Marketplace gives companies of all sizes access to a cloud-based lab environment that allows them to create digital twins to help improve design processes, optimize performance, and enhance predictive maintenance capabilities – all key considerations in the automotive industry.

Thalia’s migration and development solutions for analog, mixed-signal and RF semiconductor designs will be integrated with Siemens’ digital twin technology, allowing precise simulation and modeling of automotive components. This integration will also deliver automation to speed up time-to-market in improving semiconductor designs based on field data ensuring best-in-class solution that addresses real-world concerns.

The Thalia and Siemens partnership creates a particularly powerful solution for customers wishing to understand the behavior of their designs under various operating conditions; for example variability with temperature or PPA across a range of environmental conditions. The collaboration also facilitates rapid prototyping of new technologies and applies AI- and ML-driven automation techniques to analog design and IP reuse – allowing faster delivery of innovative solutions to the automotive market.

Here at Thalia, we’re proud to have been selected to play a key role within the Siemens Cre8Ventures ecosystem. We’re looking forward to helping the automotive industry turn ideas into reality – and to help refine existing products in the search to deliver ever-increasing mobility and enhanced safety with reduced environmental impacts. For more information about AMALIA visit https://thalia-da.com/amalia/

For more information about Siemens Cre8Ventures Digital Twin Marketplace, and the collaboration between Siemens and Thalia, visit: https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/cre8ventures/2024/08/28/thalias-collaboration-with-siemens-cre8ventures/

AMALIA 24.1 releases with support for 12nm FinFET alongside major enhancements to its Circuit Porting and Technology Analyzer tools

by Syed AhmadNewsPress Release

Thalia, a leader in analog, mixed signal and RF IP design migration, today announced the release of AMALIA 24.1. This latest version of the company’s efficient IP reuse and migration platform includes the recently announced support for 12nm FinFET technology and Circuit Porting simulation comparisons. Also introduced in this update is a summary report within AMALIA’s Technology Analyzer software. Using this report, key decision makers can quickly access the critical information they need to choose the right process technology nodes and optimum devices, streamlining the decision-making process.

“Integrating support for 12nm FinFET technology into AMALIA was an important step forward in ensuring our customers have the capabilities needed to use advanced process technologies,” explained Syed Ahmad, VP of Product Development at Thalia. “FinFET technology is crucial for developing semiconductor devices that are not only smaller, more efficient, and more powerful but also designed to meet the stringent requirements of advanced technology nodes. This enables their use in a wide range of applications, from consumer electronics and automotive systems to the Internet of Things.”

In addition to the support for 12nm FinFET technology, AMALIA 24.1 offers simulation comparison capability within its Circuit Porting tool. With this feature included, IP designers can not only port designs to new process nodes, they can also simulate and compare the outcomes of the original and ported designs, using their preferred simulator tool and see if any further adjustments are needed. This reduces the requirement for multiple iterations and saves design porting time.

A new feature included within the AMALIA 24.1 release is a report that provides a summary of the in-depth results from AMALIA’s Technology Analyzer findings.

“This latest enhancement to our software suite uses AI to provide a concise summary of key findings and recommendations taken from the standard report which, due to its comprehensive nature, can be hundreds of pages long. This drastically reduces the subsequent analysis time by providing the most relevant and critical information in a format that is quick and easy for senior designers and key decision makers to understand and make informed decisions,” Syed Ahmad explains.

The release of AMALIA 24.1 reflects Thalia’s dedication to supporting the semiconductor industry’s evolving needs, by not only maintaining up-to-date technology support but also by innovating and enhancing the user experience through new features that simplify complex processes.

For more information on how AMALIA 24.1 can facilitate your IP migration and optimization projects, saving both time and budget, click here.

Thalia’s CEO, Sowmyan Rajagopalan, speaks to Design & Reuse’s Gabriele Saucier at IP-SoC Grenoble 2023

by Sowmyan RajagopalanNews

In this video, we bring you an exclusive interview from IP-SoC Grenoble 2023, where Thalia’s CEO, Sowmyan Rajagopalan explores the latest company news and milestones from Thalia:

  • Thalia’s growth journey over the last six months
  • The latest AMALIA platform updates including qualification for 12nm FinFET and integration with additional leading EDA tools
  • Insight into the evolving market demands for analog IP migration 
  • Thalia’s future expansion plans and upcoming AMALIA platform developments

Interested in finding our more about Thalia’s AMALIA platform?

AMALIA enables customers to capitalize on the latest in advanced process technology and accelerate time to market for new products without compromising on cost and resource efficiency. It also enables them to speed up their product development cycles, while staying on budget and remaining efficient operationally. 

Find out more about AMALIA.

Design Reuse – Design Migration

by Sowmyan RajagopalanNews

Thalia Design Automation partnering with In2fab have deployed their toolset targeting Design migration at an European Design House. The technology was used to migrate a large design across technologies, validate and centre the design.

Overall design cycle was reduced to 1/3rd of conventional migration methodology.

AMALIA-Analog/RF circuit analysis/Design Enabler

by Sowmyan RajagopalanNews

Thalia Design Automation’s AMALIA toolset – Analog Analyzer and design enabler solution has been depolyed at multiple customer sites.

Analog Analyzer and Optimizer – Design Engagement

by Sowmyan RajagopalanNews

Thalia Design Automation’s AMALIA toolset – Analog Analyzer and Optimizer is now ready for design services engagement with Analog and Mixed signal design houses.
The tool incorporates innovative algorithms and CAD methodologies to quickly explore a large search space and find solutions that meet or better circuit requirements.

Nature Based EDA gets funded – EE time Europe

by Sowmyan RajagopalanNews

Analog EDA startup Thalia Design Automation Ltd., founded by a former CAD engineering manager for Micrel, has raised $1 million in a mix of equity funding and grant support. The Series A funding round was led by Mercia Fund Management and Finance Wales.

Thalia is developing EDA tools that use behavior algorithms from nature for the rapid optimization of analog and mixed-signal performance and power consumption. The money raised will be used to expand at Thalia’s headquarters in Cwmbran, Wales, and in Bangalore, India and to support initial customer engagements for the company’s tools.

The company was founded in 2011 by Sowmyan Rajagopalan, who serves as CEO and CTO. Rajagopalan had previously worked as CAD engineering manager for Micrel Inc. (San Jose, Calif.), according to his LinkedIn entry. Rodger Sykes, a UK semiconductor industry veteran serves the company as chairman.

The company has developed the Amalia analog circuit design optimizer and the Emera power device design optimizer. “Thalia has taken a number of algorithms from nature – such as methods used by ants and bees to search for food – and applied them to optimizing design results. The power tool works alongside layout tools and so works at the physical level to minimize size and power. The analog tool works at the variable component and functional level and can home in on an optimum solution much faster than traditional approaches,” said Sykes.

“Analog design methodology has remained unchanged for a long time. I have seen the technical and time-consuming efforts analog designers have had to live with in order to design and optimize their circuits,” said Rajagopalan, in a statement. “Thalia’s tools will enable users to meet more challenging design requirements within shorter time frames. Custom chip design companies will benefit from reduced design times, shortened redesign cycles, better performing parts and more effective use of scarce skilled design resource,” he added.

The AI methods used by Thalia involve considering million’s of combinations of multiple component parameters to select the combination with gives the best circuit performance. Optimizations that typically took several days to weeks to complete can now be performed in a matter of hours, the company said in a statement. The tools can be used to support the retargeting of existing designs to alternative silicon foundries for cost reduction and sourcing flexibility.

The Amalia tool offers a 10 to 50 times speed up of performance verification test for analog/RF designs as well as optimisation of physical area constraints and 3- and 6-sigma Monte Carlo statistical verification. Emera provides nominal, PVT corner and 3- and 6-sigma optimisation analysis in minutes, the company claims.

“We will start with a mixed license and service business model to help demonstrate that our tools do provide the benefits we claim,” said Sykes. As a result Thalia is also offering analog circuit design and porting of designs to alternative foundries. The company has a staff of eight people split between Cwmbran and Bangalore.

In addition to funding from Mercia Fund Management and Finance Wales the company has secured grant support from the UK government’s Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and the Welsh government.

EE Times Europe link

Mercia Fund Management invests

by Sowmyan RajagopalanNews

Thalia Design Automation supply innovation Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools providing chip designers with a new generation of tools for optimising analogue and power electronic circuits. Their tools use sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to search millions of parameter combinations to rapidly seek the optimum solution in hours rather than day or weeks. These tools not only assist engineers’ produce better designs but also greatly increase their productivity, reduce design time-scales and re-work cycles resulting in lower product development costs and superior product performance.

http://www.merciafund.co.uk/portfolio/thalia-da/