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.
ANSYS, Inc., founded in 1970 and headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, is a leading provider of engineering simulation software and technologies. The company develops tools that enable engineers, designers, researchers, and students to analyze and simulate various physical phenomena, including structural, fluid dynamics, semiconductor power, and electromagnetic properties. ANSYS software aids in the creation of virtual prototypes, allowing users to optimize designs efficiently, reduce costs, and accelerate time to market. With a workforce exceeding 4,000 employees, ANSYS serves a diverse global customer base of over 50,000, spanning industries such as aerospace, defense, and automotive. The company emphasizes open and flexible solutions, providing a common platform for product development from initial design to final testing and validation, supported by a robust network of strategic sales locations and channel partners worldwide.
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.
QuantumWise
Acquisition in 2017
QuantumWise specializes in developing commercial software for atomic-scale modeling of nanostructures. The company offers simulation tools, including toolKit and virtual nanolab, which are designed to assist industries such as manufacturing and healthcare. These tools provide users with an intuitive interface for reliable and efficient materials modeling, allowing for improved decision-making and project design. QuantumWise's solutions are crafted from advanced methodologies and tailored to meet the specific needs of its customers, ensuring a robust support system for users engaged in complex material design and analysis.
Gold Standard Simulations
Acquisition in 2016
Gold Standard Simulations Ltd. specializes in providing variability simulation tools for the semiconductor industry. The company offers a suite of advanced products including Enigma, a framework for rapid design technology co-optimization; Mystic, a statistical compact model extractor; RandomSpice, a statistical circuit simulator; GARAND, a statistical 3D TCAD simulator; and ConnecTCAD, a 3D interconnect simulator designed for evaluating resistances and capacitances in current and future CMOS technologies. These tools integrate predictive Monte Carlo and statistical simulations to address variability in nano-CMOS devices, facilitating the exploration and screening of future technology options. Additionally, Gold Standard Simulations provides educational courses focused on statistical nano-CMOS variability and reliability. Established in 2009 and based in Glasgow, United Kingdom, the company operates as a subsidiary of Synopsys Inc.
WinterLogic
Acquisition in 2016
WinterLogic is a technology leader specializing in fault simulation for automotive, safety, and security applications. The company develops electronic design automation software that assists semiconductor companies in the design and verification of advanced system on chips (SoCs) and integrated circuits. By focusing on fault simulation, WinterLogic plays a crucial role in ensuring the reliability and performance of complex electronic systems.
RSoft Design Group
Acquisition in 2012
RSoft Design Group, Inc. is a prominent provider of photonics design and simulation software, based in Ossining, New York. The company specializes in developing software solutions that facilitate component design, system simulation, and network modeling, serving the manufacturing and networking industries. RSoft's tools are essential for engineers and designers seeking to optimize photonic components and systems, thereby enhancing performance and efficiency in various applications.
nSys Design Systems
Acquisition in 2011
nSys Design Systems specializes in the development of verification intellectual properties (VIPs) for a wide range of standard interfaces and protocols, including PCIe, Ethernet, USB, and SATA, among others. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of verification IPs that includes bus functional models (BFMs), monitors, assertion-based checkers, and test suites aimed at compliance testing and functional coverage. These verification solutions are available in native SystemVerilog and Verilog, with source code options, and are compatible with various programming languages such as 'e', SystemC, OpenVera, and VHDL across commonly used simulators and platforms. Additionally, nSys provides verification services including independent verification, SystemVerilog migration, and consulting, catering to the needs of clients in storage, communications, consumer memory, and mobile applications.
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 specializes in providing tools and models for embedded systems design automation. The company offers a range of products, including CoMET, a system engineering tool for creating software simulation-based virtual prototypes of system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs, and METeor, a development environment for embedded systems. Additionally, VaST provides Metrix, which analyzes the behavior and performance of hardware and software components in virtual prototypes, as well as a peripheral device builder for modeling peripheral devices. Its services encompass architecture and systems engineering, embedded software development, and solutions for wireless, telecom, consumer, and automotive applications. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, VaST Systems Technology also maintains sales and support offices in various locations, including Austin, Munich, Paris, NSW, and Tokyo. The company has been operating as a subsidiary of Synopsys Inc. since 2010.
ZEROSOFT
Acquisition in 2010
Zerosoft Inc. is a privately held company provides concurrent simulations of a hardware design.
Prover
Funding Round in 2008
Prover is a company that specializes in developing proof engines and rail control software aimed at supporting safety-critical systems. Its proof engines enable engineers to achieve exhaustive verification coverage, ensuring the reliability and safety of complex systems. The company's rail control software focuses on enhancing traffic capacity and reliability within modern railway interlocking systems, providing automation services that adhere to strict safety requirements. Prover's client base includes prominent organizations such as Airbus, GE, New York City Transit, Ericsson, and Mathworks, highlighting its commitment to delivering effective solutions in the transportation and engineering sectors.
SIGMA-C Software AG
Acquisition in 2006
SIGMA-C(TM) Software AG (SIGMA-C), a Munich-based company providing simulation software that allows semiconductor manufacturers and their suppliers to develop and optimize process sequences for optical lithography, e-beam lithography and next-generation lithography (NGL) technologies.
Nassda
Acquisition in 2004
Nassda is a leading provider of full-chip circuit simulation and analysis software for the design and verification of complex semiconductors. They believe that our initial product, HSIM, is the industry's first hierarchical simulator that meets the circuit verification challenges of memory, analog, mixed-signal and system-on-a-chip, or SoC, designs. Their software is designed to provide high capacity and accuracy that allows designers to perform full-chip simulation of complex semiconductors with feature sizes of 0.18 microns or less, or complex nanometer-scale semiconductors.
Integrated Systems Engineering
Acquisition in 2004
Integrated Systems Engineering is a privately held company provides range of TCAD tools.
Tharas Systems
Series C in 2003
Tharas Systems specializes in providing solutions to the performance bottlenecks faced by designers in System-on-Chip simulations. The company focuses on accelerating Hardware Description Language (HDL) simulation through innovative approaches that emphasize ease of use, compatibility with existing tools, and cost-effectiveness. Their flagship product, Hammer, delivers hardware-accelerated performance akin to emulation while maintaining the debugging capabilities typically associated with software. By developing verification appliances, Tharas Systems aims to shorten the verification cycle for integrated circuits and electronic systems, thereby enhancing the efficiency of the design process.
InnoLogic Systems
Acquisition in 2003
InnoLogic Systems is a privately held company specializing in symbolic simulation services for equivalence checking in electronic design. The company develops advanced equivalence checking technology that allows users to specify variables as inputs, enabling the simulator to propagate Boolean expressions instead of binary values. This approach provides enhanced coverage compared to traditional binary simulation methods. By offering functional verification solutions tailored for full custom silicon implementations, InnoLogic Systems helps electronic designers improve the quality of their designs while reducing verification costs.
Radiant Design Tools
Acquisition in 1998
Radiant Design Tools, Inc. (RDT) is a privately held company supplies technology that optimizes designs for simulation performance.
EPIC Design Technology
Acquisition in 1997
EPIC Design Technology, Inc. provides a family of simulation and analysis tools to help designers manage the timing, power characteristics and reliability of a broad range of deep submicron and nanometer ICs. EPIC tools analyzed power, timing, and reliability problems in ASIC, structured, and full-custom ICs.
Logic Modeling Corporation
Acquisition in 1994
Logic Modeling Corporation is a provider of high-level design automation software. The company provides software simulation models and hardware modeling systems for electronic systems design.
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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