Synopsys

Synopsys, Inc. is one of the three largest competitors in the electronic design automation industry, founded in 1986 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Synopsys' most well-known (and first) product is Design Compiler. Synopsys offers a wide range of other products used in the design of an Application-specific integrated circuit. Products include place and route, static timing analysis, and Verilog and VHDL simulators. The simulators include a powerful debugging environment which assists in the design of the logic for chips and computer systems.

History

The company was founded in 1986 as Optimal Solutions by Dr. Aart J. de Geus and a team of engineers from General Electric's Microelectronics Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Since then it went through a series of acquisitions, the most significant being that of Avanti Corporation, which was the #4 company in the EDA industry at that time.

Acquisitions, mergers, spinoffs

• 1997: acquired EPIC Design Technology Inc., USA
• 1997: acquired Viewlogic Systems, Inc., USA
• June 6, 2002: merger with Avanti Corporation, USA
• February 23, 2004: acquired Accelerant Networks, USA
• February 26, 2004: acquired technology assets of Analog Design Automation, Inc., USA
• October 2004: acquired assets of Monterey Design Systems, Inc., USA (Note: a development division in Armenia)
• October 18, 2004: acquired Cascade Semiconductor Solutions Inc., USA
• Nivember 2, 2004: acquired Integrated Systems Engineering AG (ISE), Switzerland, a TCAD company.
• November 2, 2004: acquired assets of LEDA Design, Inc., USA, a developer of mixed-signal intellectual property. (Note: a development division in Armenia)
• December 1, 2004: agreement to acquire Nassda Corp., USA, an intergated circuit simulator company and settle the litigation between the two companies
  

  Finance

• Fiscal year 2004
• *Revenue: 1.09B
• *Employees:4,447
• Fiscal year 2003
• *Revenue: 1.18B
• *Employees:4,408
• *Chairman & CEO: Aart J. de Geus
• *President & COO: Chi-Foon Chan
  

  Notable persons

• Aart J. de Geus, founder
• Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, co-founder.
  

  External links

  Synopsys homepage