Synopsys

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 GmbH is a Berlin-based company that specializes in developing tools and platforms for automotive software automation. Founded in 2006, QTronic focuses on enhancing software and systems development for the automotive industry. The company’s 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 that features a powerful test case generator requiring minimal specification. With a strong emphasis on simulation and testing tools, QTronic provides innovative services that streamline the development process for automotive software, positioning itself as a key player in the sector.

QuantumWise is a company that specializes in providing advanced software solutions for atomic-scale modeling of nanostructures. Their offerings include simulation tools such as toolKit and virtual nanolab, which are designed to assist the manufacturing and medical industries in creating and optimizing projects through simulation. By delivering an intuitive user interface and employing state-of-the-art methods developed by experts, QuantumWise enables its customers to make informed decisions and enhance operational efficiency in their design processes.

Gold Standard Simulations Ltd. is a company based in Glasgow, United Kingdom, specializing in providing variability simulation tools for the semiconductor industry. Established in 2009, the company focuses on Design Technology Co-Optimization (DTCO) and develops a range of advanced electronic design automation tools. Its offerings include Enigma, an automation 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 that evaluates resistances and capacitances for contemporary and future CMOS technologies. Gold Standard Simulations also provides educational courses on statistical nano-CMOS variability and reliability. As of 2016, the company operates as a subsidiary of Synopsys Inc., enhancing its capabilities in the semiconductor sector.

WinterLogic is a technology leader specializing in fault simulation software, primarily serving the automotive, safety-critical, and security sectors. Its solutions are instrumental in the design and verification of advanced System-on-Chips (SoCs) within these industries.

RSoft Design Group specializes in developing photonics design and simulation software, serving clients primarily in the manufacturing and networking industries. Headquartered in Ossining, New York.

Magma Design Automation, Inc. specializes in electronic design automation (EDA) software products and services aimed at optimizing the design and production of integrated circuits across various industries, including communications, computing, and consumer electronics. The company offers a comprehensive digital integrated solution that streamlines the chip development cycle, encompassing initial design through to physical implementation. Magma's primary offerings include the Talus family of products, the Tekton static timing analyzer, and the QCP extractor, as well as the Quartz suite for sign-off and verification. These tools work seamlessly together to create an integrated design and verification flow, effectively merging previously distinct processes of logic design, physical design, and analysis. Additionally, Magma's Titan platform supports custom integrated chip design, providing a cohesive solution for mixed-signal projects.

nSys Design Systems specializes in the development of verification intellectual property (VIP) for a wide range of standard interfaces and protocols, including PCIe, Ethernet, USB, SATA, and more. The company boasts the world's largest portfolio of verification IPs, each accompanied by a comprehensive set of components such as Bus Functional Models (BFM), monitors, assertion-based checkers, and test suites designed for compliance testing and functional coverage. nSys's VIPs are available in native SystemVerilog and Verilog, with source code options, and are compatible with various simulation languages like 'e', SystemC, OpenVera, and VHDL across all major simulators and platforms. In addition to its VIP offerings, nSys provides verification services, including independent verification, SystemVerilog migration, and verification consulting, catering to sectors such as storage, communications, consumer memory, and mobile applications.

Synfora, Inc. is a technology company specializing in program-in chip-out (PICO) technology, which enables the development of application engines from sequential untimed C algorithms. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Synfora has additional offices in Japan, South Korea, France, India, and Taiwan. The company provides software tools, services, and intellectual property focused on accelerating the design of systems-on-chips and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Its flagship products, PICO Express and PICO Express FPGA, optimize the design process by identifying levels of parallelism to meet throughput requirements and synthesizing algorithms into hardware application engines, making integration into larger systems seamless. Synfora's technology is applicable across various sectors, including audio, video, imaging, wireless, and security.

CoWare, Inc. specializes in providing platform-driven electronic system-level design software and consulting services tailored for IP, semiconductor, and electronics companies. Its comprehensive product suite includes Platform Architect, a SystemC-based graphical environment that facilitates platform analysis; Model Designer for the verification of IP blocks; and Virtual Platform, which offers simulation packages for software development teams. Additionally, CoWare provides a Model Library containing processor, bus, and peripheral models, as well as Processor Designer, which enables the creation of custom processors and programmable hardware accelerators. The company's Signal Processing Designer allows for the design and analysis of signal processing algorithms, exporting implementations as functional blocks. Together, these tools and services support the development, distribution, and validation of virtual hardware platforms essential for device software development.

VaST Systems Technology Corporation specializes in tools and models for embedded systems design automation. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the company offers a range of engineering solutions including CoMET, a system engineering tool for creating software simulation-based virtual prototypes of system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs, and METeor, a software development environment tailored for embedded systems. Additionally, VaST provides Metrix, which analyzes the behavior and performance of hardware and software components within virtual prototypes, and a peripheral device builder for modeling peripheral devices. The company's services also encompass architecture and systems engineering, embedded software development, and applications in wireless, consumer, and automotive markets. VaST Systems Technology serves clients globally, with offices in key locations including Austin, Munich, Paris, NSW, and Tokyo. It operates as a subsidiary of Synopsys Inc.

Zerosoft Inc. is a privately held company provides concurrent simulations of a hardware design.

Pro Design Electronic GmbH is a company based in Bruckmühl, Germany, specializing in engineering, development, and manufacturing services for the electronics industry. Established in 1981, the company offers a range of products and services, including the CHIPit family of ASIC/SoC prototyping systems, which facilitate algorithm validation, design verification, and hardware/software co-development. Additionally, Pro Design provides tools for design partitioning, implementation, and debugging, along with hardware bring-up and software validation services.

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 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 is a privately held company provides range of TCAD tools.

Tharas Systems is a technology company that specializes in accelerating Hardware Description Language (HDL) simulation for System-on-Chip (SoC) designs. Their primary product, the Hammer, offers hardware-accelerated emulation-like performance and capacity, along with software-like debugging capabilities. Tharas Systems markets its solutions based on ease of use, tool compatibility, and cost-effectiveness, aiming to address the performance bottleneck experienced by designers in this field.

InnoLogic Systems is a privately held company specializing in symbolic simulation services for equivalence checking in electronic design. The company has developed advanced equivalence checking technology that allows users to specify variables as inputs, enabling the simulator to propagate Boolean expressions instead of traditional binary values. This innovative approach provides greater coverage than conventional binary simulation, allowing electronic designers to enhance their confidence in the quality of their designs. By offering comprehensive functional verification solutions for full custom silicon implementation, InnoLogic Systems helps reduce overall verification costs and improve the efficiency of the design process.

Radiant Design Tools, Inc. (RDT) is a privately held company supplies technology that optimizes designs for simulation performance.

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 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 is a privately held company provides VHDL modeling and simulation services. Compiled Designs GmbH is based in Munich, Germany.