Hongxin Micro-Nano Technology

What Hongxin Micro-Nano Technology does

Hongxin Micro-Nano Technology (鸿芯微纳), founded in 2018 and headquartered in Shenzhen, is a privately held Chinese EDA software vendor specializing in the digital chip implementation flow. It sells four registered, internally developed tools — RocSyn® (layout-driven logic synthesis), Fantaisie® (routing-centric placement and routing), ChimeTime® (static timing signoff) and HesVesPower® (power signoff) — that together cover synthesis to signoff for SoC design. The company claims distributed hierarchical architecture, advanced CCS timing models, and reported performance metrics such as >99.5% power/IR-drop consistency with mainstream tools and <3% device characterization error versus SPICE, alongside ISPD 2020 runner-up and ISPD 2022 championship placements as external validation. R&D and technical support teams are located in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing and Chengdu, with >85% of personnel in R&D/technical support roles and >80% holding graduate degrees.

The company goes to market through a direct enterprise B2B sales motion targeting fabless semiconductor and IC design companies in China, with a subscription/recurring software licensing revenue model. Distribution is purely direct — no resellers or channel partners are disclosed — supported by dedicated technical support teams, a WeChat public account, an online community (鸿芯社区), and educational content (鸿芯小课堂). Pricing is not publicly disclosed; commercial engagement is initiated via a dedicated market cooperation email. The customer base is described as including global IC design companies with successful tape-outs, but no named customer logos are disclosed.

Hongxin Micro-Nano is positioned inside China's strategic indigenous-EDA policy framework. The National Big Fund (国家大基金 / CICF) is a top-10 shareholder following a ~$70.3M round in September 2024, and a 2026 strategic investment from Shanghai state-owned capital extended state-backed ownership. The company holds High-Tech Enterprise certification and was approved in February 2026 as the Guangdong Provincial Digital Chip Design EDA Engineering Technology Research Center. It has been named to the China IC Design Fabless100 TOP10 EDA companies list for three consecutive years and in 2026 signed collaborations with Genus Electronics and Qixin Linghang to co-optimize domestic advanced process nodes.

Name

Hongxin Micro-Nano Technology

Legal name

鸿芯微纳

Website

https://giga-da.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Hongxin Micro-Nano Technology is a Shenzhen-based Chinese EDA software vendor founded in 2018 that builds a full digital chip implementation flow — logic synthesis, placement and routing, timing signoff, and power signoff — and licenses it via direct enterprise sales to fabless semiconductor and IC design companies in China.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Software

NAICS

Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing (33441), Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing (334413)

SIC

Measuring & Controlling Devices, Nec (3829)

akta.pro primary industry

EDA Software Platforms (Digital Implementation, Verification & Signoff) (HDAHAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

EDA Cloud/SaaS, Design Data Management & Collaboration (HDAHAFAJ), Design Services & ASIC/SoC Implementation (EDA-Adjacent) (HDAHAFAL)

Keywords

• Electronic design automation
• Digital chip design
• Place and route software
• Logic synthesis tools
• Timing signoff tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Nanshan

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. EDA Software Licensing: Enterprise B2B software licensing model providing electronic design automation tools to semiconductor and integrated circuit design companies. The company offers comprehensive digital chip design toolchain solutions covering synthesis, placement, routing, and signoff stages of the design process.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Hongxin Micro-Nano Technology develops and licenses Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software for digital chip design, providing a full digital chip design toolchain covering logic synthesis, placement and routing, timing signoff, and power signoff. Its four integrated products — RocSyn®, Fantaisie®, ChimeTime®, and HesVesPower® — are sold to semiconductor and integrated circuit design companies for SoC implementation.

Product overview

Hongxin Micro-Nano Technology (鸿芯微纳) is a high-tech enterprise specializing in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software, founded in 2018. The company offers a comprehensive digital chip full-process toolchain for SoC EDA, consisting of four integrated core products: RocSyn® (layout-driven logic synthesis tool), Fantaisie® (routing-centric place-and-route tool), ChimeTime® (static timing signoff tool), and HesVesPower® (power signoff tool). These products work together to provide a complete digital implementation flow from logic synthesis through place-and-route to timing and power signoff, supporting advanced process nodes and various applications for global IC design companies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fantaisie® A full-featured routing-centric digital chip placement and routing tool providing automated design flow from gate-level netlist input to GDS II output. Covers floorplanning, power network design, placement optimization, clock tree synthesis, post-clock tree optimization, routing optimization, and top-level integration, with a distributed hierarchical architecture and intelligent port optimization technology. Targets semiconductor and IC design companies implementing SoC designs.
• RocSyn®

Quantifiable outcome

• TNS (Total Negative Slack) reduced by 50%-80% in general designs with same frequency constraints
• +6 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• 概伦电子 (Genus Electronics)coreTechnology or Integration · 16 April 2026Hongxin Micro-Nano and Genus Electronics jointly announced strategic collaboration to optimize local advanced processes and chip design. The partnership focuses on collaborative optimization of EDA tools for本土先进工艺 (local advanced processes), combining strengths of both companies in the EDA field to provide integrated solutions for Chinese semiconductor design companies.
• 启芯领航coreTechnology or Integration · 16 March 2026Partnership with 启芯领航 to jointly write a new chapter in local EDA cooperation. The collaboration aims to combine technical strengths to provide comprehensive EDA solutions for Chinese chip design companies, focusing on domestic EDA ecosystem development.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Synopsys: Global #1 EDA vendor offering synthesis (Design Compiler), place-and-route (IC Compiler), timing signoff (PrimeTime), and full-stack design tools. Directly competes with Hongxin's Fantaisie, RocSyn, and ChimeTime products across the same digital implementation flow.
• Cadence Design Systems: Global #2 EDA vendor with Innovus (place-and-route), Genus (synthesis), Tempus (timing signoff), and Voltus (power signoff) - directly mirroring Hongxin's product categories. Strong incumbent at advanced nodes and dominant in custom/analog flows.
• Siemens EDA (formerly Mentor Graphics): Third major EDA incumbent with Calibre (DRC/LVS), Tessent (DFT), and digital implementation tools. While not as dominant in digital P&R as Synopsys/Cadence, it competes in adjacent categories and via its broader Siemens industrial software ecosystem.

Direct peers

• Empyrean Technology (华大九天): Largest publicly listed Chinese EDA company, providing analog and mixed-signal EDA, flat-panel design tools, and increasingly digital implementation. Hongxin's most direct domestic competitor in the Chinese fabless customer base; both serve the same domestic substitution narrative.
• Primarius Technologies (概伦电子): Chinese EDA company focused on device modeling, characterization, and circuit simulation. Listed partner of Hongxin (April 2026 collaboration) and provides complementary EDA capability - both serve the same domestic EDA substitution strategy with overlapping fabless customer base.

Emerging players

• X-EPIC (芯华章): Chinese EDA startup focused on digital verification, formal verification, and EDA cloud platforms. Competes for the same Chinese fabless customers seeking domestic EDA alternatives and represents another vendor benefiting from the domestic substitution policy environment.
• Guangli Micro (广立微): Chinese EDA company specializing in yield management, test structure design, and characterization for fabless and foundry customers. Part of the broader Chinese EDA ecosystem targeting semiconductor self-sufficiency, overlapping with Hongxin in characterization-adjacent categories.
• Xpeedic (芯和半导体): Chinese EDA vendor focused on electromagnetic simulation, signal integrity, and RF/high-frequency design tools. Adjacent to Hongxin's power signoff and signal integrity capabilities, serving similar Chinese fabless customers in advanced communications and compute SoCs.
• Real Intent: Independent EDA vendor specializing in static timing signoff, formal verification, and design signoff quality tools. Direct overlap with Hongxin's ChimeTime timing signoff product in the signoff category.
• Blue Cheetah Analog Design: EDA startup focused on chip integration and die-to-die interconnect IP/design tools for advanced packaging. Adjacent to Hongxin's place-and-route and timing signoff categories as advanced packaging becomes a growing design challenge at advanced nodes.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors4 records

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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