Synopsys
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Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) 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 including place and route software, 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.
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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 Viewlogic Systems, Inc., USA
- 2002: merger with Avanti Corporation, USA
- February 23, 2004: acquired Accelerant Networks, USA
- February 26, 2004: acquired Analog Design Automation, Inc., USA
- October 2004: acquired assets of Monterey Design Systems, Inc., USA (Note: a development division in Armenia)
- October 2004: acquired Cascade Semiconductor Solutions Inc., USA
- October 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 2003
- Revenue: 1.18B
- Employees:4,408
- Chairman & CeO: Aart J. de Geus
- President & CEO: Chi-Foon Chan
Notable persons
- Aart J. de Geus, founder
- Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, co-founder.
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