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Synopsys has announced that it received The Linley Group's 2016 Analysts' Choice Award for Best Processor IP. Synopsys' DesignWare ARC SEM security processors were selected based on their power and performance efficiency as well as unique security features that address the needs of low-power embedded applications such as smart metering, NFC payment and embedded SIMs.

The availability of Microsemi's cost-optimised PolarFire Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) product family has been announced. It delivers low power at mid-range densities with 12.7Gbps Serialiser/Deserialiser (SerDes) transceivers as well as security and reliability.

Synopsys has announced that it has entered into an accelerated share repurchase agreement (ASR) with Wells Fargo Bank NA, to repurchase an aggregate of $100m of Synopsys stock.

Synopsys has completed its acquisitions of Cigital and Codiscope. Cigital is a global application security firm specialising in professional and managed services for identifying, remediating and preventing vulnerabilities in software applications. Codiscope has transformed the tools and intellectual property created by Cigital into a suite of accessible and streamlined products for a broad population of developers.

A substantial reduction in test generation time from more than a week to days has been achieved by Socionext using Synopsys’s TetraMAX II ATPG. It has also resulted in 50% fewer patterns, compared to the previous TetraMAX ATPG solution and is planned for usage on a 28-nanometer (nm) SoC design.

Synopsys has announced that a California Federal District Court has issued a permanent injunction against ATopTech and in favour of Synopsys. The injunction prohibits ATopTech from developing, using, selling, offering to sell, licensing or distributing any product containing PrimeTime report formats or certain PrimeTime non-SDC commands, variables or attributes.

The latest release of the RSoft Photonic System Design Suite, software for the design of optical communication systems and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) at the signal propagation level has been announced by Synopsys. Version 2016.12 of the RSoft Photonic System Design Suite includes important enhancements to its optical fibre and PIC simulation capabilities.

Faraday Technology Corporation and Synopsys have announced the expansion of Faraday's design services to include a virtual prototyping solution.

Synopsys and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay have announced the release of a Synopsys Sentaurus TCAD model for negative-bias temperature instability (NBTI), a key reliability concern for advanced CMOS devices.

All chip designers set out to develop chips without bugs, but the stakes are much higher for those working on automotive designs. A cell phone crash may cause a reboot, but a bug in an advanced driver assistance system, such as lane keeping, may cause another kind of crash – with much more serious consequences.Author:Brian Davenport, Staff Engineer, Synopsys’ Verification Group