Siemens announced the Fuse EDA AI Agent system, a purpose-built domain-scoped autonomous AI agent that plans and orchestrates multi-tool and multi-agent complex semiconductor, 3D IC and printed circuit board (PCB) system workflows that span across design, verification and manufacturing sign-off. Supporting NVIDIA Agent Toolkit, advanced Nemotron models and NVIDIA AI infrastructure, the Fuse EDA AI Agent manages workflows across Siemens’ comprehensive EDA portfolio, delivering automation that significantly accelerates engineering productivity and achieves higher-quality designs.
– Fuse EDA AI Agent represents the next evolution of our Fuse EDA AI system, moving from in-tool AI capabilities to autonomous, end-to-end workflow orchestration, said Amit Gupta, chief AI strategy officer, senior vice president and general manager, Siemens EDA, Siemens Digital Industries Software. We are delivering intelligent automation across the complete EDA lifecycle, enabling our customers to dramatically reduce design cycles while maintaining the highest quality standards. Our open architecture allows customers to integrate their own workflows and models, providing the flexibility required for enterprise-scale AI deployment. This positions the industry to maintain a competitive advantage in an increasingly complex semiconductor and PCB system landscape.
Comprehensive coverage across the semiconductor and PCB system workflow
The Fuse EDA AI Agent delivers end-to-end domain-scoped automation by planning, orchestrating and executing processes across the full design lifecycle. In the front-end design and verification stages, Fuse Agent supports the automation of architectural exploration, design planning, and register-transfer level (RTL) coding with Siemens’ Catapult software.
As designs move to physical implementation, the Fuse Agent assists with place-and-route, timing closure, and power optimization through direct integration with Siemens’ Aprisa software. Fuse Agent accelerates custom design and verification with Siemens’ Solido software, along with hardware-assisted verification with the Veloce hardware-assisted verification and validation system. Fuse Agent also accelerates physical verification sign-off by automating design rule check (DRC) violation analysis and resolution through integration with industry-leading Calibre software.
Key capabilities of the Fuse EDA AI Agent
Standard AI tools struggle with semiconductor and PCB system design because they lack the proprietary domain knowledge needed to interpret dense, physics-based EDA data. Generic agentic AI platforms may also introduce IP risk considerations, including the possibility of inadequate access controls across folders and documents, as well as the potential for sensitive design data to be inadvertently exposed through native internet or cloud resource usage. Finally, the sheer density of modern tool chains quickly overwhelms generic models, leading to context saturation and hallucinations.
Key collaborations with leading semiconductor and technology companies
Seamless orchestration across complex EDA environments is crucial as the industry continues to advance semiconductor technologies. Samsung is pleased to introduce Siemens’ Fuse as a key enabler for cutting-edge design strategies within our agentic semiconductor workflows, said Jung Yun Choi, executive vice president of Memory Design Technology, Samsung Electronics. With its purpose-built architecture and interoperable framework, Fuse is expected to accelerate our move beyond traditional automation, enhancing engineering productivity and design excellence.
Collaboration with NVIDIA
Siemens and NVIDIA are deepening their strategic partnership to advance the next generation of autonomous and long-running agents for semiconductor and PCB system design. By collaborating with NVIDIA, Siemens enables the offloading of specialized and time-intensive processes to autonomous agents, so that organizations can achieve a new level of operational expertise and capabilities previously impossible.
– By combining Siemens Fuse Agent with NVIDIA agentic AI technologies, we’re laying the foundation for agents that can plan, act, and adapt across design workflows.
NVIDIA uses Siemens’ Fuse EDA solution in its chip development. The collaboration accelerates the industry’s move beyond traditional automation toward intelligent, domain-aware autonomous agents.
