Synopsys

Synopsys, Inc. ( Nasdaq: SNPS ) is a company in the field of semiconductor design software (EDA ), IP core and design -for- manufacturing solutions. Synopsys also provides services to those areas.

Synopsys was founded in 1986 under the name of Optimal Solutions. The company should continue to develop synthesis technologies and market products that were originally developed at General Electric. Synopsys was one of the pioneers in this area and had great influence on the application of these technologies. Synopsys designed function libraries for its synthesis tools that facilitate the design of specific applications (eg std.logic.arith for VHDL). This function libraries today are still widespread, although there are now equivalent standard libraries.

Meanwhile, the Synopsys activities have extended to the whole design flow, that is, the products cover the entire range from design to verification, the subsequent use by IP, to the interface for the production of ASICs and FPGAs.