Empyrean Technology Releases .aix EDA Agent Platform, Boosting Efficiency of Multiple Design Tasks by More Than 10x

As chip design grows increasingly complex, design cycles are repeatedly compressed, and PPA targets keep rising, traditional EDA tools are facing unprecedented challenges, and evolving from auxiliary tools into autonomous agents (Agents) is the prevailing trend. Against this backdrop, the 2026 Huada Empyrean Ecosystem Partner and User Conference (HUG 2026) was held under the theme "Intelligence-Driven · Co-Building the EDA Chip Ecosystem," showcasing Huada Empyrean's latest achievements in cutting-edge innovation and key technologies.

Liu Weiping, Chairman of Beijing Huada Empyrean Technology Co., Ltd., said: "Huada Empyrean's mission is to provide support and assurance for the sustained development of China's integrated circuit industry, and to prevent EDA from becoming a bottleneck. To this end, Huada Empyrean is working on three fronts: first, making it comprehensive by fully increasing the coverage of domestic EDA tools; second, making it refined by gradually elevating domestic EDA to the globally leading ranks; and third, building a larger ecosystem by continuing to make breakthroughs in areas such as PDK and IP. In addition, to better integrate AI with EDA tools, Huada Empyrean has also set up a dedicated AI research team to drive the related work."

Liu Weiping, Chairman of Beijing Huada Empyrean Technology Co., Ltd.

In the EDA Agent era, .aix brings real-world deployment experience

Currently, design demands in the semiconductor industry are becoming unprecedentedly diverse. But larger-scale designs, more advanced manufacturing processes, and more innovative design paradigms are forcing the entire industry to consider: how to reshape the EDA tool landscape, and even reshape EDA itself—in the past, EDA was a tool in engineers' hands; in the future, EDA is an Agent, a virtual engineer and data expert, that will collaborate with engineers to complete chip design.

However, there are many EDA Agents, but few deployment cases are seen. To this end, Huada Empyrean, guided by engineering applications and based on domestic open-source large models, combined with its own complete tool engine foundation and data accumulation, has built a secure and elastic AI platform—.aix. And through a secure sandbox, disaster handling, and an analysis and evaluation system based on signoff compute engines, it has formed a "Design by AI, verification by signoff" solution. At the same time, Huada Empyrean also provides a companion Copilot agent for each EDA tool, upgrading traditional tools into "intelligent experts" that work 24/7 without interruption, empowering engineers in their daily design work.

Specifically, Custom.aix targets the biggest structural shortcoming of domestic analog and RF companies—insufficient product matrix coverage. This solution turns circuit optimization from manual trial and error into automatic exploration at ten times the efficiency. Taking a 0.18μm Bandgap IP as an example, after nearly a hundred iterations with Custom.aix, multiple key metrics such as Iq/Tc all met the design specifications; manual design that originally required weeks or even months was compressed to within 7 days, reducing iteration count by 60%.

FPD.aix is committed to opening up a display gap from the pixel source. It takes only about 10 iterations to lock in the optimal pixel design direction; work that originally required a week of effort from design experts is compressed to within a day, with overall efficiency improved by more than 7 times and display image quality improved by 5%.

Digital.aix aims to continuously break through the PPA ceiling. In a design case of an open-source CPU, Digital.aix ultimately generated more than 200 cells, of which 118 brought positive gains; the maximum frequency increased from 1.81GHz to 1.83GHz, an increase exceeding the set target of 1%; work that originally required multiple teams and dozens of engineers spending months iterating was compressed to completion in a few days, with efficiency improved by more than 10 times.

In the manufacturing field, Manufacture.aix deeply integrates Huada Empyrean's automatic routing/OPC tools with the physical verification tool Argus: tasks that originally took several days are compressed to within half an hour, achieving more than ten times the efficiency improvement; the Agent can also find better layout schemes that are difficult for humans to achieve, increasing space utilization by more than 15%.

Dong Senhua, Operations Deputy General Manager of Beijing Huada Empyrean Technology Co., Ltd. and General Manager of the EDA Engineering Center, said: "Huada Empyrean will not only build a solid semiconductor infrastructure through tool engines, but will also empower customers through EDA Agents to build the high-rise buildings of chips."

Dong Senhua, Operations Deputy General Manager of Beijing Huada Empyrean Technology Co., Ltd. and General Manager of the EDA Engineering Center

Comprehensively improving tool performance, the tool foundation keeps being reinforced

In addition to .aix, in 2026 Huada Empyrean completed a comprehensive upgrade of its core compute engines and launched more than ten new solutions covering five major domains.

New engines with multiple-fold efficiency improvements

On the engine side, relying on two core technologies—super-node parallelism and high-density compressed computation—Huada Empyrean's new-generation circuit simulator ALPS VX achieves 3x simulation acceleration and breaks the capacity barrier of single simulation through multi-machine parallelism; the new-generation EMIR analysis tool Patron VX achieves 2x simulation efficiency improvement; Liberal VX achieves 3x K-library characterization acceleration, providing stronger support for cell library characterization.

Comprehensively strengthened 3D IC design capabilities

Huada Empyrean EDA now covers all 3D design directions including 3D stacking, logic folding, HBM/HBF, 3DIP, and advanced packaging. Specifically for signoff, Huada Empyrean 3DX already possesses complete 3D signoff capabilities, covering key links such as DRC/LVS, ESD, PEX, STA, EMIR/Thermal, and Reliability.

In addition, in the full flow of 3D storage and custom IP design, Huada Empyrean's solutions have also achieved practical progress on the customer side, improving efficiency while greatly reducing risk. In the full flow of advanced packaging design, it has realized the integration, analysis, and verification of "3D chip - advanced packaging - large substrate," truly achieving full-system integrated integration, analysis, verification, and delivery.

Advanced processes: phased results of co-building with the domestic ecosystem

Currently, Huada Empyrean's PDK coverage for domestic advanced processes has exceeded 80%; in the physical verification link most critical for design mass production, Argus has supported more than 18,000 chips in completing tape-out verification.

In terms of yield and competitiveness improvement, Huada Empyrean relies on fully self-developed Foundation IP and extensively tape-out-verified IP designs, combines its own design and manufacturing experience, and provides technical services to production-line customers through design experts, forming a mature DTCO business model that has been implemented at multiple domestic advanced-process customers.

Flat panel display: from "assisted design" to "autonomous design"

Huada Empyrean launched a full-link intelligent platform oriented toward design-manufacturing integration, reconstructing the EDA toolchain with Agents and achieving a leap from "assisted design" to "autonomous design." Among them, the new product Optimus supports OPC simulation correction for ultra-large panel layouts, enabling high-precision and rapid simulation of the entire panel through Hybrid simulation; in actual customer projects, design quality improved by more than 10%, average resistance decreased by 20%, and CD uniformity improved by 60%; AndesFPD sensitivity simulation can simultaneously optimize more than 1,000 parameters, compressing work that originally required two days into two hours, improving efficiency by more than twenty times.

Joining hands with partners to complete the domestic EDA landscape

In addition to concentrated releases at the product and tool levels, ecosystem cooperation also became a highlight of this conference. At the event, Huada Empyrean held strategic cooperation signing ceremonies with four companies—Xinxingji, Qijie Technology, Zhongke Jianxin, and Manguang Information—to accelerate the building of an autonomous and controllable chip design ecosystem.

Conclusion

Huada Empyrean continues to practice in the direction of "Intelligence-Driven · Co-Building the EDA Chip Ecosystem" and is building a secure, efficient, autonomous and controllable EDA technology system. Looking ahead, with breakthroughs in EDA Agent performance and tool iteration, Huada Empyrean will continue to provide solid support for the high-quality development of China's integrated circuit industry and write a footnote for Chinese EDA in the wave of global semiconductor competition.