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On September 7, the Semiconductor CAD Alliance 2025 Beijing Zhongguancun Forum was held in Beijing. The forum convened industry experts, technology leaders, and corporate representatives to jointly explore the application and future trends of AI technology in chip design.
UNICLOUD was invited to participate in this event. Geng Jiashen, Chief Architect of the UNISOC Chip Cloud Solution, delivered a keynote speech titled "Reconstructing Design Flows: UNICLOUD Full-Stack EDA + AI Engine Empowering Chip Design," sharing numerous innovative achievements through which UNICLOUD enables chip design enterprises to conduct development more rapidly and efficiently.
"Platformization, Automation, and Intelligence" Address Industry Challenges
Currently, high-end chip design enterprises face multiple challenges, including increasing design complexity, prolonged development cycles, reliance on manual project management, and low resource utilization. These issues significantly constrain R&D progress and tape-out success rates. Enhancing development efficiency and reducing costs while ensuring design quality have become focal points of industry-wide attention.
As one of the earliest practitioners in China to promote cloud-based chip design, UNICLOUD has leveraged its extensive expertise in cloud computing and chip design to launch a full-stack Chip Cloud solution. This solution aims to reconstruct the chip design process through platformization, automation, and intelligence to enhance design efficiency.
Centered on a full-stack EDA toolchain and an AI engine, the UNICLOUD Full-Stack Chip Cloud Solution provides one-stop services spanning design, simulation, and verification. This solution not only integrates industry-leading EDA tools but also empowers chip design through AI technology, achieving automation and intelligence in design workflows while significantly shortening time-to-market and reducing design costs.
"This solution consolidates years of R&D experience in chip design from numerous member companies under New Unigroup Group. It integrates mature R&D tools and management processes into a unified platform while enabling data interoperability, thereby empowering chip design enterprises across both R&D design and project management dimensions," stated Geng Jiashen.
Full-Stack, End-to-End Empowerment for Chip Design
Geng Jiashen explained that the UNICLOUD Chip Cloud Solution is a one-stop design platform integrating multiple EDA tools to cover the entire chip design workflow.
R&D personnel can complete the entire process—from architectural design, logic design, and physical design to tape-out—on a unified platform. The standardized, visualized design environment and regulated workflows significantly enhance design efficiency.
"This platform supports not only R&D design but also encompasses both project management and design dimensions. Furthermore, it achieves data integration on the IT infrastructure side, enabling real-time visualization of quality and progress at the multi-module project level, as well as flexible scheduling and efficient utilization of resources," Geng Jiashen noted.
The integration of AI technology represents another key highlight of the UNICLOUD Chip Cloud Solution. Through its AI engine, the system automatically performs rapid parameter optimization and completes multiple iterations autonomously. It also analyzes logs automatically to predict potential issues and provide intelligent solutions, reducing inspection times from hours to minutes and achieving intensive resource utilization across manpower, time, and computing power dimensions.
Furthermore, the platform integrates a knowledge base derived from the industry experience of numerous chip design experts, providing design engineers with standardized guidance and recommendations.
Meanwhile, the UNICLOUD Chip Cloud Solution offers an efficient simulation management platform. This CAD management platform incorporates the proprietary Zixin Scheduling Platform developed by New Unigroup, featuring intelligent scheduling and resource allocation capabilities that automatically adjust resources based on simulation task requirements to ensure efficient execution.
"Our CAD management platform bridges R&D and IT, enabling precise collection of project- and module-level resource data from the design platform, thereby facilitating more accurate resource accounting and allocation," said Geng Jiashen.
In addition to technical solutions, UNICLOUD provides professional consulting services. Its team, composed of experienced chip design experts, offers comprehensive support ranging from solution planning and tool selection to workflow optimization. By gaining in-depth insight into customer requirements, UNICLOUD delivers tailored solutions that enable rapid iteration and optimization in chip design.
UNICLOUD's practices have gained widespread recognition within the industry. The company currently serves numerous leading domestic chip design firms, assisting them in establishing professional design environments, optimizing resource utilization, and enhancing operational efficiency. Looking ahead, UNICLOUD will continue to deepen its expertise in chip design, collaborating with industry partners to explore the integration of AI with chip design and injecting new momentum into the innovative development of the semiconductor industry.