Chinese EDA startup X-EPIC completes strategic investment in Optima Design Automation

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- X-EPIC, a Chinese leading intelligent software and systems provider for EDA (Electronic Design Automation), announced on May 19 via its WeChat account that it has completed the strategic investment in Optima Design Automation, an Israel-based automotive electronic solution company.

Following this collaboration, the company aims to further enhance efficient business solutions in the automotive electronic field, reduce the development cycle of automotive electronics, improve the safety and reliability of automotive-grade products, and significantly reduce the development costs of complex automotive-grade electronics, said X-EPIC.

As publicly disclosed, Optima Design Automation is regarded as the next-generation technology representative in the field of automotive functional safety validation. The company has pioneered a new fault analysis technology for accelerated semiconductor development that enables a 1,000X performance improvement over traditional fault simulation. This platform powers the Optima Safety Platform that targets Hard and Soft Error analysis, essential in certifying the safe operation of automotive semiconductor devices to the ISO 26262 safety standard.

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Founded in Mar. 2020, X-EPIC focuses on EDA digital validation and aims to build validation solutions from chips to systems. It has released a range of system-level validation products based on platform-based, intelligent, and cloud-based architecture, including intelligent debugging, intelligent compilation, intelligent validation cockpit, and intelligent cloud-native infrastructure, and provided a complete validation EDA toolchain service. Its products have been fully put into market and delivered to multiple main clients.

X-EPIC stated that the latest investment is another significant strategic move following its acquisition of the high-performance simulation software company Shunyao CAD in Sept. 2022.