/> Standards are the backbone of interoperable solutions required for successful design and manufacturing of today's complex semiconductor devices, said Dr. W. Charlton Adams, Jr., president of the IEEE Standards Association. As an industry leader and visionary, Synopsys continues to demonstrate how to create and deploy the necessary standards that help the users and providers of these interoperable solutions across the entire ecosystem.

Standards bring customers and competitors together in search of common ground. We are honored to be recognized by the IEEE Standards Association for Synopsys' 20 year commitment to and leadership in standards development and innovation, said Rich Goldman, vice president of corporate marketing and strategic alliances at Synopsys. Previous recipients of this award encompass many outstanding technology leaders, and it is a privilege to be included among them. As pioneers of open standards in EDA, our vision is to advance the entire electronic design industry through community collaboration.

Synopsys has been a long-time member of IEEE and is active in 14 IEEE standards groups, including IEEE 1800™ SystemVerilog Unified Hardware Design, Specification and Verification Language, IEEE 1801™ Standard for Design and Verification of Low Power Integrated Circuits, and IEEE 1666™ Open SystemC for System-Level Design and Modeling.