Custom EDA Engineering

Build the capability
your flow is missing.

Purpose-built tools for IC design teams, CAD groups and foundry engineering, delivered in Wafercad Custom Suite.

Automate a repetitive task, add a specialized check or turn an internal method into a reusable application. Keep your required toolchain and improve the work around it.

Built on WCS.
Connected to your flow.

Your custom application runs in WCS. Exchange supported design files with the tools your team or customer requires for downstream acceptance and foundry-qualified signoff.

Bring the engineering inputs

Your existing design flow

Layouts, circuit netlists and agreed technology inputs.

Wafercad Custom Suite

Your custom capability

One workspace for the tool, its results and your team's review.

Continue the required flow

Your downstream tools

Customer review, further engineering and qualified signoff.

GDSII for layouts. SPICE and CDL for circuit netlists.We establish the exchange scope with sample files, layer maps and device/model references, then check the outputs in your receiving flow.

Examples of engineering engagements

Where a focused tool
can make a difference.

Create and explore

Layout and test structures
Generate device arrays, contact chains and labeled characterization structures across a defined set of dimensions.
Simulation workflows
Automate repeatable runs, measurement extraction and comparisons for circuit or device characterization.

Less repetitive preparation. More time to investigate the result.

Check and understand

Specialized design checks
Turn matching, symmetry, placement or internal layout conventions into repeatable engineering checks.
AI-assisted engineering
Apply NETI AI to authorized technical knowledge and design context, with reviewable recommendations and bounded actions.

Apply your engineering methods consistently across the team.

Connect your flow

Technology enablement
Validate layer mappings, connect model references and build regression fixtures for PDK updates.
Engineering data and handoffs
Connect design outputs, findings and reports to internal systems and agreed customer deliverables.

Reduce manual transfers and make the next handoff easier to check.

Start with what you need

Use the suite.
Or build with us.

Choose an existing WCS workflow or bring us the requirement that needs something more.

Explore the WCS platform

Your team, working in WCS

Use the suite's available generation, verification and AI-assisted workflows directly, with project access and team review in the same environment.

Wafercad engineering, working with you

Scope a focused solution, test it against agreed inputs and acceptance criteria, and deliver it as a capability for your organization's WCS workspace.

A solution can remain specific to your organization or become a reusable WCS offering. We agree ownership, confidentiality and any wider reuse before development.

Which engineering task
should work better?

Start with the task, expected output and tools your team must retain. Confidential design and PDK material can follow through an agreed NDA and secure intake.

Discuss a custom EDA requirement