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-tomarket 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.”
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