The Future of Design Services: From Open Tool Adoption to EDA Innovation

By SoCTeamup Semiconductors

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Rethinking the Foundations of Chip Design

The semiconductor industry is witnessing a profound shift—moving from closed, costly design workflows to more open, agile, and innovation-driven approaches. While open-source EDA tools are opening doors for a broader range of designers, the next frontier lies in developing customized, intelligent EDA infrastructure that can scale with modern design complexity.

At SoCTeamup, we are not just integrating open-source tools—we are building our own EDA solutions from the ground up, tailored to solve specific bottlenecks in Design for Test (DFT) and SoC-level integration.

The Open Innovation Wave – and Its Limits

Yes, open-source EDA tools like Verilator, Yosys, and others have shown great promise. They're helping democratize access, lower design costs, and foster global collaboration.

But when it comes to test architecture, fault coverage optimization, and DFT planning across advanced nodes (5nm–2nm)—existing tools fall short.

That's where SoCTeamup's in-house innovation begins.

SoCTeamup's EDA Innovation: Built for DFT at Scale

We are actively developing a suite of proprietary EDA solutions focused on automated DFT architecture, including:

DFT Planning Engines

That automatically analyze SoC hierarchy, scan chain length, test access points, and generate optimal insertion strategies.

AI-Driven Automation

Using rule-based and learning-based models to predict test coverage gaps and recommend architecture refinements in real-time.

Reusable DFT IPs

Including logic BIST, memory BIST, scan controllers, boundary scan modules, and test wrappers—all built to plug directly into complex designs.

Design Flow Integration

Our tools are flow-agnostic and can integrate seamlessly into both traditional and open-source digital implementation pipelines.

The goal? To cut DFT integration time by 10x, while improving fault coverage and reducing silicon test cost.

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Redefining the Role of Design Services

At SoCTeamup, we see ourselves not just as a service provider—but as an innovation enabler.

This new era demands design service companies to:

- Build their own IP and automation tools—not just use what's available

• Offer intelligent, semi-automated design flows that scale

• Own critical infrastructure like test generation, coverage analysis, and debug

• Shorten tapeout timelines with smart planning and modular IP reuse

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  Our Unique Position

  Few design service companies globally are investing in from-scratch EDA development. Fewer still are doing it in DFT—one of the most under-automated domains in chip design.

  With a team that has executed 30+ advanced-node tapeouts, and founders with decades of DFT and AI-EDA expertise, SoCTeamup is uniquely equipped to solve these challenges.

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  Final Thoughts

  Open-source EDA tools are a stepping stone. The real disruption lies in building domain-specific, intelligence-driven EDA components that deliver speed, precision, and scale.

  SoCTeamup is leading this evolution—starting with DFT, and expanding across the full spectrum of semiconductor design.

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  Partner with Us

  📩 Partner with us to explore the future of intelligent, IP-driven chip design

  Email: contact@socteamup.com

Web: www.socteamup.com