The integration is also expected to reduce semiconductor development cycles, improve product quality and accelerate time to market
Siemens recently announced that it will buy Lauterbach. Lauterbach is a company that makes debug and trace solutions for embedded software and complex system‑on‑chip architectures.
The goal of this acquisition is to bring Lauterbach’s software debugging technologies and Siemens’ hardware‑assisted verification capabilities. This will allow semiconductor developers to examine hardware and software behaviour in an integrated development environment.
Lauterbach builds development and verification tools for microprocessors and embedded CPU cores. Its portfolio contains debuggers and real‑time trace tools that are used by semiconductor and embedded systems developers, around the world.
Through the acquisition, Siemens aims to integrate these technologies with its existing electronic design automation (EDA) and hardware-assisted verification solutions. The combined portfolio is expected to help developers identify errors arising from complex hardware-software interactions at an earlier stage, allowing embedded software to be developed and verified even before physical chips become available.
The integration is also expected to reduce semiconductor development cycles, improve product quality and accelerate time to market. This is particularly relevant as increasing chip complexity, driven by artificial intelligence (AI), software-defined vehicles, the Internet of Things (IoT), multi-core architectures, cybersecurity and functional safety, is bringing hardware and software development closer together.
Cedrik Neike, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and President of Digital Industries, said the acquisition would extend Siemens’ EDA portfolio by combining its hardware-assisted verification capabilities with Lauterbach’s software debugging technologies. He added that the integration would enable customers to test and optimise products before the actual chip is manufactured, significantly reducing development time.
Stephan Lauterbach, CTO and co-founder of Lauterbach, said the combination would give developers an integrated view of increasingly complex application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and SoCs. These capabilities are expected to serve applications across AI, high-performance computing, storage and hyperscale infrastructure, automotive, communications, aerospace and defence.
Siemens also has plans to build on Lauterbach’s legacy, with co-founder Stephan Lauterbach and Thomas Ullmann continuing their involvement following the completion of the transaction. Lauterbach’s commitment to its customers will remain unchanged.
