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Maxim Ershov, Co-founder, CEO and CTO, DiakoptoMaxim Ershov, Co-founder, CEO and CTO
Today, the power-performance-area (PPA) metric and time-to-market of modern ICs are dominated by onchip interconnects and layout parasitics. Debugging these design problems and addressing the underlying issues have become extraordinarily difficult, tedious, and timeconsuming. The Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools that were designed when transistors were the dominant challenge haven’t kept up with this dramatic paradigm shift. These other tools don’t recognize that parasitics are now the primary contributors to the degradation of IC performance, precision, power efficiency, robustness, and reliability. Parasitics cause circuits to underperform, fail, or behave in an unexpected, counter-intuitive manner.

Diakopto was founded on the premise that parasitics are now a first-order problem, and require a different class of design solutions. The company’s ParagonX solution embodies a new methodology to help engineers develop next-generation chips more effectively and efficiently. The game-changing Diakopto methodology has taken the industry by storm, already having been adopted by over 35 industry-leading customers, including some of the largest semiconductor companies, system OEMs and hyperscale data center corporations.

Diakopto is ushering in a radical new era in IC design debugging and optimization. “Our produtcs empower engineers with deep and actionable insights into parasitic effects, to speed up the analysis and optimization process,” says Maxim Ershov, the Co-founder, CEO, and CTO at Diakopto.

Diakopto’s ParagonX delivers a set of functionalities that dramatically accelerate IC design debugging and optimization. It helps users analyze, visualize and debug a broad range of problems caused by layout parasitics. The tool provides engineers with an understanding of parasitic effects so they can more quickly and intelligently identify the root causes of circuit problems caused by interconnects. “We help engineers find the proverbial needle in a haystack—the handful of most critical elements out of millions that are responsible for bottlenecks, choke points and weak areas,” states Ershov. Diakopto solutions are designed to be orders of magnitude faster and offer unprecedented ease-of-use compared to alternate solutions. With no complicated setup/configuration or CAD support needed and virtually no learning curve required, users can achieve tremendous productivity gains the same day of starting to use Diakopto’s tool.

  • Diakopto is ushering in a radical new era in IC design debugging and optimization


ParagonX also provides the unique capability to visualize parasitic effects over the layout to help engineers more effectively and efficiently fix their designs and layouts. The tool has been designed to streamline, simplify, and accelerate the process of debugging, optimization, and verification. No wonder that ParagonX has been successfully adopted for the development of a wide variety of IC designs, including high-speed SerDes, high-precision data converters, RFIC, image sensors, power management, custom memories, optical transceivers, low-power IoT, silicon photonics, memory PHY and general-purpose analog.

Diakopto has been instrumental in solving the previously unsolved problem of assisting engineers tasked with parasitics debugging, design optimization, and verification of today’s and tomorrow’s complex IC designs. Diakopto recently introduced its second product, and is expecting to introduce additional products over the next 12 months. “To meet the needs of our growing customer base, we have further accelerated our innovations and investment in R&D by dramatically growing the size of our engineering team in 2021,” concludes Ershov.

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Company
Diakopto

Management
Maxim Ershov, Co-founder, CEO and CTO

Description
Diakopto was founded on the premise that parasitics are now a first-order problem, and require a different class of design solutions. The company’s ParagonX solution embodies a new methodology to help engineers develop next-generation chips more effectively and efficiently. The game-changing Diakopto methodology has taken the industry by storm, already having been adopted by over 35 industry-leading customers, including some of the largest semiconductor companies, system OEMs and hyperscale data center corporations

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Ansys Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Diakopto, Expands Multiphysics Simulation Portfolio for Semiconductor Designers

The acquisition complements Ansys' existing signoff solutions and enables integrated circuit (IC) designers to detect problems earlier in the design flow

Key Highlights

• The addition of Diakopto's solutions to Ansys' portfolio will deliver a competitive edge to engineers using Ansys to create high-performance integrated circuits

• Diakopto's unique and market-leading products complement Ansys' existing solutions – the combination will empower our customers to deliver optimal designs and accelerate time to market

• The transaction is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the second quarter of 2023

PITTSBURGH, -- Ansys, (NASDAQ: ANSS) the global leader and innovator of engineering simulation software, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Diakopto. A provider of differentiated EDA solutions to accelerate integrated circuit (IC) development, Diakopto focuses on helping resolve critical issues caused by layout parasitics. The transaction is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the second quarter of 2023. It is not expected to have a material impact on Ansys' consolidated financial statements in 2023.

Diakopto develops products that address the growing complexities and unintended effects of designing ICs in the modern era. Semiconductor designs increasingly employ advanced process node technologies, where interconnect parasitic effects limit the performance, reliability, and functionality of designs. Diakopto's market-leading products have been adopted by dozens of customers, including tier-one semiconductor companies, for a broad range of applications.

With the acquisition, Ansys will better enable design engineers to "shift left," and to detect interconnect parasitic problems early in the design cycle. Diakopto's products provide actionable analytics to guide designers to fix these problems – a capability that has not existed before. Through early identification and what-if analysis of parasitic problems, engineers can minimize costly iterations late in the design cycle – furthering cost and time savings.

"Diakopto's culture of strong engineering excellence and its innovative and highly differentiated products create a natural alignment with our organization. We are eager to welcome their team to the Ansys family," said Shane Emswiler, senior vice president of products at Ansys. "Incorporating Diakopto's unique methodology will support designers using Ansys to quickly and easily pinpoint the few elements, out of billions, causing bottlenecks. Designers can then optimize and debug designs more efficiently for enhanced IC performance and reliability, and accelerate time to market. The acquisition will complement Ansys' existing offerings for engineers at every level as Diakopto's intuitive and out-of-the-box experience doesn't require extensive training or complicated setups or configurations."

"Today's announcement brings together two like-minded companies on the forefront of innovation, and we are excited about becoming part of the Ansys family," said Maxim Ershov, CEO and CTO at Diakopto. "By joining forces with Ansys, we're confident that we can solve a broader set of problems in the chip design workflow together, strengthening offerings for our customers and driving more innovations in high-tech designs for data center, 5G, automotive, and mobile applications."