Synopsys, Inc. provides software, intellectual property, and services used
by designers across the entire silicon to
software spectrum, from engineers creating advanced semiconductors to software
developers seeking to ensure
the quality and security of their applications. We are a global leader in supplying
the electronic design automation
(EDA) software that engineers use to design and test integrated circuits (ICs),
also known as chips. We also offer intellectual property (IP) products, which
are pre-designed circuits that engineers use as components of larger chip designs
rather than design those circuits themselves. We provide software and hardware
used to develop the electronic systems that incorporate chips and the software
that runs on them. To complement these offerings, we provide technical services
and support to help our customers develop advanced chips and electronic systems.
We are also a leading provider of software tools and services that are used
to improve the security and quality of software code in a wide variety of industries,
including electronics, financial services, media, automotive, medicine, energy
and industrials.
Recent years have seen a remarkable proliferation of consumer and wireless
electronic products, particularly mobile devices. The growth of the Internet
and cloud computing has provided people with new ways to create, store and share
information. At the same time, the increasing use of electronics in cars, buildings,
appliances and other consumer products is creating a connected landscape of
“smart” devices. Numerous software applications (apps) have been
developed to expand the potential of these connected devices.
These developments have been fueled by innovation in the semiconductor and
software industries. It is common for a single chip to combine many components
(processor, communications, memory, custom logic, input/output) and embedded
software into a single system-on-chip (SoC), necessitating highly complex chip
designs. The most complex chips today contain more than a billion transistors.
Transistors are the basic building blocks for ICs, each of which may have features
that are less than 1/1,000th the diameter of a human hair. At such small dimensions,
the wavelength of light itself can become an obstacle to production, proving
too big to create such dense features and requiring creative and complicated
new approaches from designers. Designers have turned to new manufacturing techniques
to solve these problems, such as multiple-patterning lithography and FinFET
transistors, which in turn have introduced new challenges to design and production.
Revenue from our products and services is categorized into four groups:
Core EDA, which includes digital, custom and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
IC design software, and our verification products;
IP, Systems and Software Integrity, which includes our DesignWare® IP portfolio,
system-level products, and software security and quality testing solutions;
Manufacturing Solutions; and
Professional Services and Other.
Core EDA
The process of designing ICs contains many complex steps: architecture definition,
register transfer level (RTL) design, functional/RTL verification, logic design
or synthesis, gate-level verification, floorplanning, and place and route, to
name just a few. Designers use our Core EDA products to automate the IC design
process and to reduce errors. We offer a platform that features a large number
of Core EDA products intended to address the process comprehensively. Our Core
EDA products generally fall into the following categories:
Digital, custom and FPGA IC design, which includes software tools to design
an IC; and
Verification, which includes technology to verify that an IC design behaves
as intended.
Digital and Custom IC Design
Our Galaxy™ Design Platform provides customers with a comprehensive design
implementation solution that includes industry-leading products and incorporates
common libraries and consistent timing, delay calculation, UPF power intent
descriptions, and constraints throughout the design process. The platform gives
designers the flexibility to integrate internally developed and third-party
tools. With innovative technologies, a common foundation, and flexibility, our
Galaxy Design Platform helps reduce design times, decrease uncertainties in
the design steps, and minimize the risks inherent in advanced, complex IC design.
Our products span digital, custom, and analog/mixed-signal designs, and support
multiple technology nodes, including 16/14nm, 12nm, 10nm, 7/8nm, and many others.
Key design products, available as part of the Galaxy Design Platform or as
individual point tools, are our IC Compiler™ II physical design solution,
Design Compiler® logic synthesis product, Custom Compiler™ full custom
design solution, PrimeTime® static timing analysis products, StarRC™
tool for extraction, and IC Validator tool for physical verification.
FPGA Design
FPGAs are complex chips that can be customized or programmed to perform a specific
function after they are manufactured. For FPGA design, we offer Synplify®
(Pro® and Premier) implementation and Identify® debug software tools.
Verification
Our Verification Continuum™ platform is built from our industry-leading
and fastest verification technologies, providing virtual prototyping, static
and formal verification, simulation, emulation, FPGA-based prototyping, and
debug in a unified environment with verification IP and planning and coverage
technology. By providing a consistent model and debug environment across the
flow of verification tasks and by enabling seamless transitions between simulation,
emulation, and prototyping, the platform helps our customers accelerate hardware
verification, bring up software earlier, and get to market sooner with advanced
SoCs.
The individual products included in the Verification Continuum platform are
reported in our Core EDA and IP, Systems & Software Integrity revenue categories.
The solutions reported in our Core EDA revenue include the following:
SpyGlass® family of static verification technologies including lint, CDC
(clock domain crossing), RDC (reset domain crossing), DFT (design for test),
and low-power analysis and verification;
VCS® functional verification solution, our comprehensive RTL and gate-level
simulation technology, including Fine-Grained Parallelism (FGP);
Verdi® debug technology, the industry’s most compressive SoC debug;
VC Formal, our next-generation formal verification product;
Verdi Coverage, our verification planning and coverage technology;
ZeBu® emulation systems, which use high-performance hardware to emulate
SoC designs so that designers can accelerate verification of large complex SoCs
and perform earlier verification of the SoC together with software; and
Other principal individual verification solutions, including CustomSim™
FastSPICE and FineSim® SPICE/FastSPICE circuit simulation and analysis products,
HSPICE® circuit simulator, and CustomExplorer™ Ultra mixed-signal
regression and analysis environment.
The verification IP, virtual prototyping and FPGA-based prototyping solutions
that are part of our Verification Continuum platform are included in our IP,
Systems & Software Integrity category and further described below.
IP, Systems and Software Integrity
IP Products
As more functionality converges into a single device or even a single chip,
and as chip designs grow more complex, the number of third-party IP blocks incorporated
into designs is rapidly increasing. We are a leading provider of high-quality,
silicon-proven IP solutions for SoCs. Our broad DesignWare IP portfolio includes:
High-quality solutions for widely used wired and wireless interfaces such
as USB, PCI Express, DDR, Ethernet, SATA, MIPI, HDMI, and Bluetooth Low Energy;
Logic libraries and embedded memories, including memory compilers, non-volatile
memory, standard cells, and integrated test and repair;
Processor solutions, including configurable ARC® processor cores, software,
Embedded Vision processor cores and application-specific instruction-set processor
(ASIP) tools for embedded applications;
IP subsystems for audio, sensor, and data fusion functionality that combine
IP blocks, an efficient processor, and software into an integrated, pre-verified
subsystem;
Security IP solutions, including cryptographic cores and software, security
subsystems, platform security and content protection IP;
Analog IP including data converters and audio codecs; and
SoC infrastructure IP, datapath and building block IP, mathematical and floating
point components, ARM® AMBA® interconnect fabric and peripherals, and
verification IP.
Our IP Accelerated initiative augments our established, broad portfolio of
silicon-proven DesignWare IP with IP Prototyping Kits and customized IP subsystems
to accelerate prototyping, software development, and integration of IP into
SoCs.
We also offer a broad portfolio of IP that has been optimized to address specific
application requirements for the mobile, automotive, digital home, internet
of things, and cloud computing markets, enabling designers to quickly develop
SoCs in these areas.
Our Verification IP portfolio, part of our Verification Continuum platform,
is also part of the IP Products category.
ystem-Level Solutions
Our System-Level verification solutions include the following elements of our
Verification Continuum platform:
•
HAPS® FPGA-based prototyping systems, which provide design and verification
teams an integrated and scalable hardware-software solution for early software
development and to improve their SoC schedules;
•
Virtualizer™ virtual prototyping solutions, which addresses the increasing
development challenges associated with software-rich semiconductor and electronic
products by accelerating both the development and deployment of virtual prototypes;
and
•
Platform Architect solution, which provides architects and system designers
with tools and efficient methods for early analysis and optimization of multi-core
SoC architectures for performance and power.
We also provide a series of tools used in the design of optical systems and
photonic devices. Our CODE V® solution enables engineers to model, analyze
and optimize designs for optical imaging and communication systems. Our LightTools®
design and analysis software allows designers to simulate and improve the performance
of a broad range of illumination systems, from vehicle lighting to projector
systems.
Software Integrity Solutions
Our Software Integrity platform is a comprehensive solution for building integrity—security
and quality—into our customers’ software development lifecycle and
supply chain. These testing tools, services and programs enable our customers
to detect and remediate defects across their entire software development lifecycle.
Our offerings include security testing, managed services, programs and professional
services, and training.
Key offerings in the security testing space include:
SecureAssist and Coverity® static analysis tools, which analyze software
code to find crash-causing bugs, incorrect program behavior, security vulnerabilities,
memory leaks and other performance-degrading flaws;
Defensics® fuzz testing tools, which examine security vulnerabilities
in software binaries and libraries, particularly network protocols and file
formats, by systematically sending invalid or unexpected inputs to the system
under test;
Protecode™ software composition analysis tools, which scan binary and
source code for license issues and other known security vulnerabilities stemming
from incorporated third-party and open source code; and
Seeker® IAST tool, which identifies exploitable security vulnerabilities
while web applications are running, thereby verifying results and eliminating
false positives.
Managed Services allow developers to test code across many dimensions, and
to rapidly respond to changing testing requirements and evolving threats. This
includes Mobile AST services to find vulnerabilities in mobile applications
as well as DAST services which identify security vulnerabilities while web applications
are running, without the need for source code.
Programs and Professional Services address unique security and quality needs
with specialized consulting by skilled experts, including Building Security
in Maturity Mode (BSIMM), which measures the effectiveness of software security
initiatives by assessing the current state as compared to industry benchmarks.
Finally, training includes eLearning and instructor-led training that prepares
developers and security professionals to build security and quality into their
software development process and remediate found vulnerabilities and defects.
Manufacturing Solutions
Our Manufacturing Solutions software products and technologies enable semiconductor
manufacturers to more quickly develop new fabrication processes that produce
production-level yields. These products are used in the early research and development
phase, as well as in the production phase where designers use these products
to help convert IC design layouts into the masks used to manufacture the devices.
Our Manufacturing Solutions include Sentaurus™ technology computer-aided
design (TCAD) device and process simulation products, Proteus™ mask synthesis
tools, CATS® mask data preparation software, Yield Explorer® Odyssey,
and Yield-Manager® yield management solutions.
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