Supporting Nvidia Agent Toolkit, advanced Nemotron models and Nvidia AI infrastructure, the Fuse EDA AI Agent manages workflows across Siemens’ EDA portfolio, delivering automation that aims to accelerate engineering productivity.
“We are delivering intelligent automation across the complete EDA lifecycle, enabling our customers to reduce design cycles while maintaining quality standards,” says Siemens’ Amit Gupta.
Fuse Agent builds on Siemens’ Fuse EDA AI system, which features a sophisticated RAG pipeline, a multimodal EDA-specific data lake, specialised parsers for EDA file formats, customisable access controls, support for multiple AI models and an open approach for third-party integrations.
It 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.
For digital verification, Fuse Agent assists with testbench generation, debugging and more through integration with the Questa One Agentic Toolkit.
As designs move to physical implementation, the Fuse Agent assists with place-and-route, timing closure and power optimisation 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 Calibre software.
For 3D IC, it drives power/ground load optimisation and automated creation of signal path plan clustering in Innovator3D IC software.
For PCB systems, it aids layout, signal integrity and other analyses in Xpedition software and Hyperlynx software. Additionally, it supports the manufacturing readiness workflow through Tessent software for design-for-test (DFT) workflows and integration with Calibre optical proximity correction (OPC) products.
Fuse Agent aims to enable executable playbooks that accurately complete complex, multi-step tasks across EDA workflows by integrating domain-specific knowledge. This empowers designers to seamlessly customise these playbooks to meet their specific requirements.
It performs dynamic tool discovery and orchestration across MCP-connected EDA tools, uses hierarchical planning with a supervisor agent and worker agents, and includes autonomous recovery loops.
This enables integration with Siemens’ EDA tools and third-party tools, providing a true multi-vendor tool solution. This approach mitigates context-window saturation across multiple MCP uses and streamlines the designer-agent experience.
It is built for high-performance in EDA environments as it optimises resource allocation across existing scheduling frameworks and HPC clusters while maintaining enterprise-scale workflow reliability. Centralised data handling enables teams to leverage existing infrastructure and gain cross-workflow insights within air-gapped compute environments.
There is native support for role-based access controls, audit trails and human checkpoints that enable trustworthy automation in secure EDA environments, thereby safeguarding sensitive design IP from external exposure.
