synopsis disambiguation . synopsys inc. type public traded as nasdaq snps industry software & programming founded 1986 by david gregory aart de geus headquarters mountain view california u.s. key people aart j. de geus founder chairman & co ceo chi foon chan president & co ceo revenue 2.242 billion usd fy 2015 1 net income 225.93 million usd fy 2015 1 number of employees 10 362 second quarter fiscal 2016 2 website www.synopsys.com coordinates 37 23 32 n 122 02 50 w 37.3921 n 122.0471 w 37.3921 ; 122.0471 synopsys inc. an american company is the leading company by sales in the electronic design automation industry . 3 synopsys first and best known product is design compiler a logic synthesis tool . synopsys offers a wide range of other products used in the design of an application specific integrated circuit . products include logic synthesis behavioral synthesis place and route static timing analysis formal verification hdl systemc systemverilog verilog vhdl simulators as well as transistor level circuit simulation . the simulators include development and debugging environments which assist in the design of the logic for chips and computer systems . contents 1 history 1.1 acquisitions mergers spinoffs 2 acquisitions 2.1 arc international 2.2 avanti corporation 2.3 coware 2.4 novas software 2.5 numerical technologies 2.6 springsoft 2.7 synplicity 2.8 coverity 3 management team 4 notable persons 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit founded in 1986 by dr. aart j. de geus and a team of engineers from general electric s microelectronics center in research triangle park north carolina synopsys was first established as optimal solutions with a charter to develop and market ground breaking synthesis technology developed by the team at general electric . acquisitions mergers spinoffs edit building on the hillsboro oregon campus 1994 acquired cadis aachen germany . through this acquisition synopsys got the communication systems and dsp design tool suit named cossap . cossap stood for communication system simulation and application processor . synopsys carried out various communication predominantly wireless modems design and consulting activities using this tool and later the evolved new tool co centric system studio . the cadis group was a spin off development initiative from institute for integrated signal processing systems iss rwth aachen spearheaded by professor heinrich meyr 4 and professor gerd ascheid . 5 cossap was a competing product to spw 6 from cadence now maintained and enhanced by coware . 7 synopsys stopped support on cossap since 2003 and is now promoting the enhanced tool cocentric system studio . 1997 acquired epic design technology inc. usa 1997 acquired viewlogic systems inc. usa 1998 acquired systems science inc. june 6 2002 merger with avanti corporation usa . avanti was founded when several ex cadence employees bought the startup arcsys which had previously merged with iss gaining avanti its drc lvs tool hercules including 3d silicon structure modeling then bought compass design automation which had fully integrated ic design flow and asic libraries especially its place and route tool which avanti reworked to create saturn and apollo ii ; and it also bought tma which brought their pioneering tcad and proteus optical proximity correction tools . this was by far synopsys most significant and controversial acquisition . at the time avanti was the 4 company in the eda industry and was struggling with a major lawsuit from cadence for software theft . 8 celebrating women s day holiday synopsys armenia education department saed graduating class september 12 2002 acquired co design automation inc. usa . co design pioneered the superlog language a superset of the popular verilog hardware description language extending its capabilities into verification and system design . superlog formed the basis of the systemverilog language standardized by accelera in 2003 . september 20 2002 acquired insilicon inc. usa march 3 2003 acquired numerical technologies inc. usa a pioneer in design for manufacturing software which included cats mask fracturing . synopsys paid about 250 million in cash . february 23 2004 acquired accelerant networks usa february 26 2004 acquired assets of analog design automation inc. usa october 2004 acquired assets of monterey design systems inc. usa oijiuired cascade semiconductor solutions inc. usa november 2 2004 acquired integrated systems engineering ag ise switzerland a tcad company . november 2 2004 acquired assets of leda design inc. usa a developer of mixed signal intellectual property . 2004 after acquiring monterey arset and leda design opened synopsys armenia cjsc . home to 8 % of the company s worldwide engineering force . 9 december 1 2004 agreement to acquire nassda corp. usa an integrated circuit simulator company and settle the litigation between the two companies december 7 2005 acquired hpl technologies 10 a semiconductor analysis software manufacturer that makes software specializing in wafer design analysis and yield enhancement for wafer process . may 16 2006 announced expanding its presence in electronic system level esl design by acquiring virtio corporation creator of virtual platforms for embedded software development . june 21 2006 santiago chile synopsys r & d center chile opening . august 16 2006 acquired sigma c a munich based lithography simulation company . 11 june 18 2007 acquired archpro design automation inc. july 30 2007 purchased certain semiconductor ip assets from mosaid technologies . 12 october 2 2007 acquired sandwork design . 13 march 30 2008 announced acquisition of synplicity the leader in fpga synthesis and rapid prototyping technology . 14 december 18 2008 acquired chipit business unit from prodesign electronic gmbh germany 15 may 8 2009 acquired analog business group chipidea from mips technologies 16 feb 2 2010 acquires vast systems technology corporation . feb 8 2010 announces an acquisition of coware inc. 17 june 10 2010 announces an acquisition of synfora inc. 18 june 10 2010 announces definitive agreement to acquire virage logic 19 sep 2 2010 announces an acquisition of virage logic corporation . 20 oct 7 2010 announces an acquisition of optical research associates . 21 sep 2 2011 announces an acquisition of nsys design systems . 22 oct 7 2011 announces an acquisition of extreme da . 23 nov 2011 announces an acquisition of magma design automation for 7.35 share in cash . 24 feb 15 2012 completes acquisition of the mask patterning business of luminescent technologies inc. thus adding inverse lithography technology ilt to its manufacturing product line . feb 22 2012 completes acquisition of magma design automation with the cash value of transaction of about 523 million or 7.35 per magma share . may 8 2012 announces an acquisition of rsoft design group . 25 july 30 2012 announces acquisition of ciranova . 26 aug 3 2012 announces an acquisition of springsoft for 406 million . 27 feb 19 2014 announces acquisition of coverity for 350 million . 28 may 15 2014 announces acquisition of kalistick for an undisclosed amount . 29 september 18 2014 amd and synopsys entered into a multi year agreement which grants amd access to synopsys intellectual design ip . in return synopsys gets access to a team of amd s ip r & d engineers . according to mark papermaster amd s senior vice president and cto we have partnered with synopsys for tools and ip for more than a decade and this expanded relationship is a great example of leveraging high quality standard ip for cost effective reuse across multiple solutions . 30 april 20 2015 announces acquisition of codenomicon . 31 june 7 2015 announces acquisition of atrenta . 32 august 2015 acquired atrenta inc. 33 march 2016 announces acquisition of winterlogic . 34 may 2016 announces acquisition of simpleware ltd uk . 35 may 23 2016 synopsys acquires gold standard simulations ltd. 36 acquisitions edit arc international edit arc embedded processors type private company industry digital ip embedded processor cores dsp cores headquarters mountain view california key people yankin tanurhan vp processors soc and nvm products processor ip number of employees 110 before acquisition website official website arc international plc was the designer of arc argonaut risc core embedded processors which were widely used in soc devices for iot storage digital home mobile and automotive applications . arc processors have been licensed by more than 200 companies and are shipped in more than 1.5 billion products per year . 37 arc international was acquired by synopsys in 2010 . the roots of arc international date back to the early 1990s . the company was founded by jez san to build upon the 3d accelerator technology previously developed for the super nintendo entertainment system by a division of argonaut software . this forerunner to the arc was originally called the mario mathematical argonaut rotation & i o chip and later dubbed the super fx . it went on to sell millions at the time outselling arm or any other risc core . 38 39 following the success of the super fx its designers were split from the main company to a subsidiary called argonaut technology ltd atl . the design was renamed to arc and marketed as a general purpose configurable microprocessor . later atl spun off as a separate company arc international . in 1995 bob terwilliger took over as arc s first ceo . he created the company licensing strategy commercialized the product including the acquisition of metaware vautomation and precise software . he raised 50 million pre ipo and took the company public in september 2000 raising an additional 250 million . a list of notable events following september 21 2000 arc listed on the london stock exchange as ark . 40 june 17 2002 arc took over three companies metaware vautomation and precise software technologies 41 but later parts were sold off to other companies . april 2007 arc acquired teja technologies of san jose california a specialist in heterogeneous multiprocessor software . 42 43 june 14 2007 arc acquired tenison design automation of cambridge uk a provider of software tools used to help develop system on chip soc designs . 44 45 september 23 2007 arc acquired alarity corporation of st. petersburg russia that specializes in codec software firmware and advanced multimedia architectures . 46 47 48 february 11 2008 arc acquired sonic focus a specialist developer of audio enhancement technology for digital sound . 49 july 29 2009 arc confirmed they were in discussions with a third party regarding an offer for the company . august 18 2009 virage logic announces intent to acquire arc international . 50 september 15 2009 virage logic declares offer to acquire arc international unconditional in all respects . 51 november 5 2009 virage logic completes acquisition of arc international . 52 june 10 2010 synopsys declares offer to acquire virage logic including arc september 2 2010 synopsys completes acquisition of virage logic 53 avanti corporation edit avanti corporation the i in avanti is upside down so it is also often seen as avant was an electronic design automation company purchased by synopsys in 2002 see wikt avanti for the meaning of the word . coware edit coware inc. type private industry software & programming founded 1996 headquarters san jose california key people alan naumann president ceo website www.coware.com coware now part of synopsys was a supplier of platform driven electronic system level esl design software and services . coware was headquartered in san jose california and had offices around the world major r & d offices in belgium germany and india . coware development was initiated by the interuniversity microelectronics centre imec in belgium as an internal project in 1992 . 54 in 1996 coware spun off as an independent company . 55 coware is one of the founding member of systemc language 56 in 2005 coware acquired the signal processing department from cadence . 57 on february 8 2010 synopsys has announced an acquisition of coware . 58 its products included platform architect model designer model library processor designer signal processing designer and virtual platform designer . novas software edit novas software former type private company fate acquisition founded 1996 defunct 2008 headquarters