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.
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Implementation Group
Past deals in Simulation
ANSYS
Acquisition in 2024
Ansys is a markets engineering simulation software and technologies widely used by engineers, designers, researchers and students across a broad spectrum of industries and academia. The company focuses on the development of open and flexible solutions that enable users to analyze designs directly on the desktop, providing a common platform for fast, efficient and cost-conscious product development, from design concept to final-stage testing and validation. The company and its global network of channel partners provide sales, support and training for customers. Headquartered in Canonsburg, Pa., U.S.A., with more than 60 strategic sales locations throughout the world, ANSYS, Inc. and its subsidiaries employ more than 1,600 people and distribute ANSYS products through a network of channel partners in 40+ countries.
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
WinterLogicn is the technology leader in fault simulation used in automotive, safety and security environments for the design and verification of advanced system on chips (SoCs).
RSoft Design Group
Acquisition in 2012
RSoft Design Group, Inc. (RSoft), a leading provider of photonics design and simulation software headquartered in Ossining, New York.
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.
Prover
Funding Round in 2008
Prover delivers proof engines that enable safety critical systems engineers to achieve 100% exhaustive verification coverage. Its customers include Airbus, GE, New York City Transit, Ericsson, Mathworks and many others.
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 suggests answers to the System-on-Chip simulation performance bottleneck being experienced by designers. They provides a fresh approach to the acceleration of HDL simulation and markets their solutions based on their ease of use, tool compatibility and their cost effectiveness. Tharas' main product, the Hammer, offers hardware accelerated, emulation-like performance and capacity with software-like debugging functionality.
InnoLogic Systems
Acquisition in 2003
InnoLogic Systems is a privately held comapny provides symbolic simulation services for equivalence checking.
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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