Case Study: Siemens Healthcare achieves 30% verification productivity gain and zero escaped bugs with Cadence Design Systems' Incisive toolflow

Siemens Healthcare - Customer Case Study

Siemens Healthcare’s Medical Electronics and Imaging Solutions team faced a high-stakes challenge when developing a new image‑chain platform for medical imaging: the design had to be extremely reliable, flexible, and verified to the highest standards because it directly supports clinical diagnosis and treatment. Existing verification flows were slowing productivity, suffered from incomplete tool support, repeated recodes, and lacked automation and reuse — risks Siemens could not accept for a system that must never lose images or introduce latent bugs.

Siemens adopted Cadence’s Incisive Enterprise Specman Elite testbench and Incisive Enterprise Manager, supported by Cadence customer service, to introduce constrained‑random verification, executable specifications, automated coverage analysis, and regression management. The transition was rapid and painless, boosting verification productivity by 30%, enabling on‑time delivery with no unexpected delays, preventing functional bugs from escaping to test, and providing the flexibility and reuse needed for future projects.

Siemens Healthcare

Torsten König

Lead Verification Architect