Synopsys has announced the speaker line-up and details of the 24th EDA Interoperability Forum. Synopsys welcomes back industry luminaries and experts to share their thoughts on the continued importance of interoperability in the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) ecosystem and to guide the industry in identifying opportunities and solving the challenges ahead.

Synopsys has announced it will report results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2011 on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011, after the market close. A conference call to review the results will begin at 2 p.m. PT (5 p.m. ET) and will be hosted by Aart de Geus, chairman and chief executive officer, and Brian Beattie, chief financial officer.

Synopsys, Inc.has announced that it received TSMC's 2011 Interface IP Partner of the Year Award. Synopsys was selected based on customer feedback, TSMC-9000 compliance, technical support excellence and number of customer tapeouts. Synopsys' DesignWare® Interface IP portfolio includes widely used protocols such as USB, DDR, PCI Express, HDMI, MIPI and SATA that are offered in a broad range of processes from 180-nanometer (nm) to 28-nm.

Synopsys, Inc has announced that its DesignWare 96 dB Hi-Fi Audio IP has achieved first-pass silicon success in 65-nanometer (nm) and 55-nm process technologies for multiple foundries. The DesignWare 96 dB Hi-Fi Audio IP is optimized for high-performance, low power dissipation and small area, making it ideal for consumer electronic system-on-chip (SoC) applications such as portable media players, smart phones, CD/DVD/ Blu-Ray Disc players/recorde...

Synopsys has announced that eSilicon Corp. has deployed Synopsys' custom IC design solution to streamline its custom memory intellectual property business. Synopsys' comprehensive unified custom implementation solution, readily available interoperable process design kits (iPDKs) from leading foundries, and expert application support enabled eSilicon to rapidly deploy the solution and achieve multiple successful 28-nanometer (nm) tapeouts.

Synopsys, Inc. announced that Chongqing Chongyou Information Technologies Company, Ltd. taped out its first 65 nanometer, dual-mode baseband, low-power device within five months – significantly ahead of the original schedule – using the Synopsys Galaxy Implementation Platform. To meet the stringent low-power requirements of the GSM/TD-SCDMA market, CYIT implemented advanced low-power techniques including multiple power domains with shutdown, ...

Synopsys, Inc. today announced that LG Electronics, Inc. has selected Synopsys' CustomSim FastSPICE simulator for the verification of its advanced analog intellectual property (IP) and mixed-signal system-on-chip (SoC) designs. By deploying the CustomSim simulator, LG Electronics has accelerated verification of its analog IP and SoCs by an average of 10X over previous solutions, enabling designers to simulate more process corners with post-layout...

Synopsys, Inc. announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Extreme DA™, a privately held company headquartered in Santa Clara, California that develops software to improve integrated circuit (IC) design performance, power consumption and manufacturing yields.

Synopsys announced that its DesignWare SuperSpeed USB 3.0 IP has surpassed 40 SoC design wins and more than 30 customer licensees worldwide. Because Synopsys' DesignWare USB 3.0 Digital Core and PHY IP has been broadly adopted by leading semiconductor companies targeting a variety of applications and process technologies, designers can be confident the IP is silicon-proven and can lower their SoC integration risk.

Synopsys, Inc.announced a licensing agreement enabling Synopsys to distribute ARM's Fast Models and create models of ARM Cortex Series processors. Designers will be able to accelerate embedded software development for ARM technology-based designs by up to nine months by creating virtual prototypes using ARM models with Synopsys' DesignWare TLM, SystemC TLM Libraries and Virtualizer™ tool set. ARM Fast Models and other ARM transaction-level mode...

Synopsys, Inc. announced the availability of enhancements to its CODE V optical design and analysis software, acquired as part of Synopsys' acquisition of Optical Research Associates. CODE V 10.4 delivers enhancements to its Beam Synthesis Propagation tool that enable optical designers to model and analyze diffraction effects in an optical system with increased flexibility, speed and accuracy. These enhancements are particularly useful for evalua...

Synopsys, Inc. announced availability of the latest release of its Synplify Pro and Synplify Premier FPGA synthesis tools. The new Synplify tool release enables engineers to build higher reliability into their FPGA designs through a new feature that provides automated creation and preservation of error-correction logic, including safe finite-state machines (FSMs). Additionally, an enhanced interface for the tool allows designers to track progress...

Synopsys, Inc. announced advances in its Galaxy Implementation Platform with the availability of its unified solution for mixed-signal designs. The new unified solution provides seamless integration between IC Compiler physical implementation and the Galaxy Custom Designer solution, allowing design teams to easily move between digital and custom implementation flows while maintaining design data integrity. The unified solution accelerates the des...

Synopsys, Inc. announced new capabilities in TetraMAX ATPG and Yield Explorer that decrease the time, effort and cost of deploying a volume diagnostics flow and speed-up yield ramp. When yield has not yet reached acceptable levels during initial manufacturing phases, IC product teams must quickly identify and fix the dominant causes of yield loss. Synopsys' enhanced volume diagnostics solution cross-correlates large volumes of data from design, f...

Synopsys, Inc. announced that its DesignWare STAR Memory System has shipped in one billion chips from semiconductor manufacturers worldwide, reinforcing its status as a trusted test and repair solution for embedded memories. The STAR Memory System is an advanced built-in-self-test solution that provides automated pre- and post-silicon memory test, debug and diagnostic capabilities. The automated BIST insertion and advanced repair features reduce ...

Synopsys, Inc announced that John Chilton, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development, will speak at the 2011 Deutsche Bank Technology Conference in Las Vegas, on Sept. 14, 2011.

Synopsys, Inc announced today that it has completed the acquisition of nSys Design Systems Private Limited (nSys). With this acquisition, Synopsys is increasing its investment in VIP technology to address the growing verification challenges designers face as they create more and more complex systems on chips (SoCs) to serve the demand for 'smart' electronics. The terms of the deal, structured as an acquisition of substantially all the assets and ...

Synopsys, Inc. and Achronix Semiconductor today announced a multi-year extension of their OEM agreement for Synopsys FPGA synthesis tools. The agreement continues to make Synopsys’ FPGA logic synthesis technology available to Achronix customers by expanding support of Synopsys’ Synplify Pro(r) software to Achronix’s latest generation of FPGAs, the 22 nanometer Speedster22i(tm) FPGA Platform. Achronix intends to deliver a Speedster22i FPGA-o...

Synopsys today announced University of Rochester students Bin Ma and Dustin Moore are the winners of the 2011 Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition. The competition was created in 2000 by Optical Research Associates (ORA®), now the Optical Solutions Group at Synopsys, and was named in honor of ORA's former president and chief executive officer Robert S. Hilbert. The annual competition is open to students in North America working ...

Synopsys has announced it will report results for the third quarter fiscal year 2011 on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011, after the market close