Synopsys is a technology company that specializes in electronic design automation (EDA), semiconductor intellectual property (IP), and software quality and security solutions. Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an office in Tokyo, Japan, Synopsys provides tools that automate the chip design process, enhancing design accuracy and productivity. Its offerings include software for designing application-specific integrated circuits and system-on-chip solutions, alongside consulting services. The company focuses on helping businesses manage and test their software for security and quality, addressing the growing needs of semiconductor and systems companies as they increasingly adopt in-house chip design and integrate more complex digital solutions.
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Baya Systems
Series B in 2025
Baya Systems specializes in chipset-based semiconductor technology, focusing on high-performance, modular systems that enhance intelligent computing across diverse applications. The company has developed innovative chiplet technology, which allows semiconductor manufacturers to create efficient chips by deconstructing complex designs into smaller, modular components. This approach addresses the growing complexity of semiconductor design while reducing overall design cycles, positioning Baya Systems as a key player in the evolution of modular semiconductor solutions.
Intrinsic ID
Acquisition in 2024
Intrinsic ID B.V. specializes in digital authentication solutions, primarily utilizing its proprietary SRAM Physical Unclonable Function (SRAM PUF) technology. Founded in 2008 and based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, with operations in Korea, the company develops a range of products aimed at enhancing security for Internet of Things (IoT) and embedded applications. Its offerings include Broadkey, a secure key management software; Citadel, a key provisioning system; Quiddicard, which focuses on remotely programming keys; and Quiddikey, a solution for reconstructing on-chip secret keys without storage. These technologies are designed to validate payment systems, secure connectivity, authenticate sensors, and safeguard sensitive government and military data and systems.
Efabless
Series A in 2023
efabless connects a global community of chip designers with smart product customers. The company was founded to revive demand-driven innovation in the semiconductor industry. The company brings back the "Garage" to the vocabulary of the semiconductor industry. Efabless builds products that spark from effective customer-centric innovation, engineered by great talented minds across the globe and manufactured by their dependable foundry partners.
Piketec
Acquisition in 2023
PikeTec GmbH, founded in 2007 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in developing testing tools and services for embedded software, particularly in the automotive sector. The company is known for its Time Partition Testing (TPT) tool, which enhances the efficiency of testing and verifying control units and regulation systems. PikeTec offers a comprehensive range of services that include consulting on test processes and methods, project analysis, and best practice workshops. Additionally, the company provides engineering services such as module, integration, and system testing, along with test management and TPT qualification. Furthermore, PikeTec engages in the development and integration of specialized tools and offers training programs tailored to various skill levels in TPT. Through its focused approach, PikeTec helps clients improve their testing and verification processes, ensuring safety and reliability in embedded systems development.
QTronic
Acquisition in 2019
QTronic GmbH, founded in 2006 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in the development of automation platforms and tools for automotive software. The company provides a range of solutions aimed at enhancing the simulation, testing, and development of automotive systems. Its flagship products include Silver, a virtual ECU platform that enables the transfer of development tasks from physical environments to Microsoft Windows PCs, and TestWeaver, an intelligent test automation solution featuring a powerful test case generator that requires minimal specification. As of October 2019, QTronic operates as a subsidiary of Synopsys, Inc.
Kilopass
Acquisition in 2018
Kilopass Technology Inc. specializes in developing and marketing advanced embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) technology, utilizing standard logic CMOS processes. The company is a leader in high-density logic NVM solutions, designed for system-on-chip (SoC) applications, which offer reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness. Kilopass's flagship product, Extra Permanent Memory (XPM), serves various purposes including electrically field-programmable firmware storage, security identification, analog circuit calibration, yield enhancement, and integrated circuit configuration. This technology is particularly advantageous for the semiconductor industry, addressing long-standing challenges in NVM integration across diverse markets and applications. Kilopass's products are compatible with advanced Customer Owned Tooling and Application Specific Integrated Circuit markets, and they are tailored for leading foundries and process geometries, providing significant design opportunities and cost savings for manufacturers.
Sidense
Acquisition in 2017
Sidense is a prominent developer of silicon-proven embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP). The company specializes in one-time programmable (OTP) memory and logic NVM, which are designed to enhance a variety of electronic products. Sidense's IP cores facilitate code storage and processor configuration, allowing semiconductor and systems companies to differentiate their products while optimizing design efficiency. By integrating these IP cores into system-on-chip (SoC) designs, clients can achieve a smaller footprint and improved performance in their electronic offerings.
Atrenta
Acquisition in 2015
Atrenta specializes in providing software solutions for the semiconductor and consumer electronics industries, with a focus on enhancing design efficiency through its SpyGlass Predictive Analysis platform. This patented technology offers early insights into the performance, power, and area requirements of complex system on chips (SoCs), which are critical to the modern consumer electronics landscape. By identifying structural, coding, and consistency issues in register transfer language (RTL), SpyGlass enables design engineers to optimize testability and reduce risks and costs prior to the deployment of traditional electronic design automation (EDA) tools. With a user base of over two hundred companies and thousands of design engineers globally, Atrenta positions itself as a vital resource for navigating the complexities of SoC design, ensuring a more streamlined and effective implementation process.
Target Compiler Technologies
Acquisition in 2014
Target Compiler Technologies, a privately held company headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, that provides software tools to design and program application-specific instruction-set processors (ASIPs). ASIPs complement industry-standard processor architectures by enabling designers to implement their own highly specialized software programmable engines for compute-intensive digital signal and data plane processing.
SpringSoft
Acquisition in 2012
SpringSoft is a software company specializing in electronic design automation (EDA) solutions for the semiconductor and electronic systems industries. Founded in 2012 and based in California, the company focuses on designing and developing silicon-to-software systems. SpringSoft provides a range of services, including verification of integrated circuits, embedded systems, and systems-on-chips, as well as prototyping, software integrity, and methodology consulting. In addition, the company offers support for design flow deployment, system-on-chip integration, and physical prototyping, catering to various sectors such as automotive, Internet of Things (IoT), and power-saving technologies.
Ciranova
Acquisition in 2012
Ciranova, Inc. is an electronic design automation company based in Santa Clara, California, established in 2002. The company specializes in developing interoperable tools aimed at aiding custom chip designers in the creation and migration of legacy analog intellectual property (IP). Its product offerings include PyCell Studio, which streamlines the creation of parameterized cells (PCell) and layout generators for advanced manufacturing processes, and PCell Xtreme, designed to facilitate the migration of PCells from proprietary languages into multi-vendor OpenAccess environments. Additionally, Ciranova provides services such as custom layout generator development, Python code development consulting, and analog and mixed-signal design support, enabling engineers to integrate complex RF, analog, and mixed-signal content into nanometer-scale silicon efficiently.
ExpertIO
Acquisition in 2012
ExpertIO specializes in verification IP for industry-standard protocols, focusing on internet protocol verification services. The company is dedicated to developing system architectures that identify and verify internet protocol addresses for various computer hardware. With extensive industry experience, ExpertIO aims to deliver high-quality results in verification testing. Additionally, the company offers consulting services related to verification test coding and design debugging, ensuring that clients receive comprehensive support in their technical endeavors.
Extreme DA
Acquisition in 2011
Extreme DA, Corp. operates as an electronic design automation company. It focuses on the variation-aware parametric yield analysis, optimization, and specification sign-off of integrated circuit designs before transfer to manufacturing operations. The company offers GoldTime, a static analysis and timing sign-off tool that performs variation-aware timing analysis on a design; ROAD Suite, which provides statistical analysis and optimization of digital, analog/RF, memory, and mixed-signal circuits; and Variability solutions that provide variation data in terms of transistor and interconnect geometry parameters, as well as in terms of E-test data. Extreme DA, Corp. was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California.
Ciranova
Venture Round in 2010
Ciranova, Inc. is an electronic design automation company based in Santa Clara, California, established in 2002. The company specializes in developing interoperable tools aimed at aiding custom chip designers in the creation and migration of legacy analog intellectual property (IP). Its product offerings include PyCell Studio, which streamlines the creation of parameterized cells (PCell) and layout generators for advanced manufacturing processes, and PCell Xtreme, designed to facilitate the migration of PCells from proprietary languages into multi-vendor OpenAccess environments. Additionally, Ciranova provides services such as custom layout generator development, Python code development consulting, and analog and mixed-signal design support, enabling engineers to integrate complex RF, analog, and mixed-signal content into nanometer-scale silicon efficiently.
Synfora
Acquisition in 2010
Synfora, Inc. develops program-in chip-out (PICO) technology. The PICO is a system of tools and IP that creates application engines from sequential untimed C algorithms, and designed for audio, video, imaging, wireless, and security applications. Synfora provides software tools, services, and IP that accelerate the design of systems-on-chips. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with additional offices in Shin Yokohama, Japan; Kangnam-Gu, Seoul; Bernin, France; Bangalore, India; and Taipei, Taiwan.
CoWare
Acquisition in 2010
CoWare, Inc. provides electronic system-level design software and consulting services primarily to IP, semiconductor, and electronics companies. The company specializes in platform-driven solutions that facilitate platform architecture design, verification, application sub-system design, processor design, DSP algorithm design, and software development. Key products include Platform Architect, a graphical environment for platform analysis; Model Designer for IP block verification; and Virtual Platform, which simulates platforms for software development teams. CoWare also offers a Model Library containing various processor, bus, and peripheral models, and Processor Designer for creating custom processors and programmable hardware accelerators. Additionally, the Signal Processing Designer enables the design and analysis of signal processing algorithms, exporting implementations as blocks. CoWare's suite of tools supports the creation and validation of virtual hardware platforms, streamlining development processes for device software.
VaST Systems Technology
Acquisition in 2010
VaST Systems Technology Corporation provides tools and models for embedded systems design. It offers CoMET, a system engineering tool that enables the creation of a software simulation-based virtual system prototype of a system-on-a-chip (SOC); and METeor, a software development environment for embedded systems and SoC. The company also provides Metrix, which provides behavior and performance of hardware and software components of virtual system prototypes to system architects, hardware designers, and software developers; and peripheral device builder, which enables the creation of models of peripheral devices. In addition, it offers architecture and systems engineering, embedded software development, visualization and reporting, VaST modeling, wireless and telecom applications, consumer applications, and automotive applications solutions. The company serves automotive, consumer, and wireless markets. VaST Systems Technology Corporation was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with sales and support offices in Sunnyvale, California; Austin, Texas; Munich, Germany; Pariset, France; NSW, Australia; and Tokyo, Japan. As of February 1, 2010, VaST Systems Technology Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Synopsys Inc.
Ciranova
Series D in 2008
Ciranova, Inc. is an electronic design automation company based in Santa Clara, California, established in 2002. The company specializes in developing interoperable tools aimed at aiding custom chip designers in the creation and migration of legacy analog intellectual property (IP). Its product offerings include PyCell Studio, which streamlines the creation of parameterized cells (PCell) and layout generators for advanced manufacturing processes, and PCell Xtreme, designed to facilitate the migration of PCells from proprietary languages into multi-vendor OpenAccess environments. Additionally, Ciranova provides services such as custom layout generator development, Python code development consulting, and analog and mixed-signal design support, enabling engineers to integrate complex RF, analog, and mixed-signal content into nanometer-scale silicon efficiently.
LEDA Systems
Acquisition in 2004
LEDA Systems Inc., founded in 1995, is a leader in the field of mixed-signal and analog silicon intellectual property (IP) design and development. LEDA is a single, comprehensive source for silicon-proven mixed-signal IP. It has licensed its technology to more than 50 customers for the development, manufacture and sales of high-performance integrated circuits (ICs).
Analog Design Automation
Acquisition in 2004
Analog Design Automation (ADA) specializes in developing automated circuit optimization software for analog, mixed-signal, and custom integrated circuits. Founded in 1999 in Saskatoon, Canada, by a group of engineers from the University of Saskatchewan, the company initially secured funding through a combination of grants and investments, including significant contributions from notable firms and institutions. ADA's software automates critical processes such as device sizing and biasing to enhance circuit performance, while also offering tools like IP Explorer, which visually presents circuit performance data. In 2004, ADA was acquired by Synopsys Inc., further integrating its innovative solutions into the broader semiconductor industry.
Adaptive Silicon
Series A in 2000
Adaptive Silicon licenses Programmable Logic Cores for the purpose of adding programmability to system-on-chip devices. This programmability permits multiple designs to be built on a single silicon die and enables products to be re-programmed after they are built and in service.
Interactive Silicon
Series B in 1999
Interactive Silicon is a technology-based, intellectual property company that is turning LOTS of heads with its breakthrough memory technology.
Smartech Oy
Acquisition in 1999
Smartech Oy (Tampere), an independent provider of system-on-a-chip (SOC) designservices.
ViewLogic Systems
Acquisition in 1997
Viewlogic Systems develops and markets integrated e-products, design software, and services for advanced electronic systems. It is based in Marlboro, Massachusetts, with offices in North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim. Viewlogic Systems is the Developer of Internet Protocol (IP) service-measurement software. The company develops service assurance software for IP networks designed to monitor the services delivered by Internet service providers to their customers.
Compiled Designs GmbH
Acquisition in 1993
Compiled Designs is a privately held company provides VHDL modeling and simulation services. Compiled Designs GmbH is based in Munich, Germany.
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