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EDA tool and semiconductor IP company, Synopsys, has announced revenue of $1.526bn for Q3 2024, up approximately 13% from Q3 2023. The company also announced it is expecting record full-year revenue with around 15% growth. Reflecting on the results, Sassine Ghazi, Synopsys’ president and CEO attributed a lot of growth to the increased use of AI. “The complexity and pace ...

At DAC 2024, Altair showcased its 3D-IC design and SimLab multi-physics modelling and simulation tool. Today, the company has announced the acquisition of Metrics Design Automation, a Canadian company led by Joe Costello , former CEO of Cadence Design Systems (1988-1997). The company described DSim as a full feature System Verilog and VHDL RTL simulator. It enables designers to simulate ...

DAC 2024: Accellera Systems Initiative, the EDA standards body, reflects the industry’s shift of focus from chip to systems, with the formation of a new working group. The Federated Simulation Standard (FSS) working group will focus on the Interoperability of simulators, models, and other components that together form systems-of-systems simulation environments, said Martin Barnasconi, Accellera’s technical committee chair and chair ...

DAC 2024: The EDA industry is reaping the rewards of an evolution in the semiconductor and software industries, said Jay Vleeschhouwer, software research analyst at Griffin Securities (pictured). The essential nature of EDA has become more apparent, he said, as semiconductor companies are becoming increasingly like systems companies and systems companies are becoming increasingly like semiconductor companies, he said. Software ...

The executive director of R&D in Synopsys’ EDA group, Sashi Obilisetty, was presented with the Marie R. Pistilli Women in Engineering Achievement Award at this year’s DAC in San Francisco, California. The award recognises individuals who have “significantly helped advance women in electronic design”. This year’s recipient is an entrepreneur, founding DualSoft in 1998, focusing on RT analysis, which was ...

DVCon 2025 is a highly technical conference for design and verification with discussions on the latest technologies and how they can be adopted for projects and designs.

Taiwanese SoC design house Faraday Technology is collaborating with Arm and Intel on a 64-core system-on-chip, intended to be made with Arm Neoverse data-centre-grade cores using Intel’s 18A (nominally 1.8nm) foundry process – the latter due to become available at the end of this year. It will use Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS, pictured), where “Arm delivers validated, performance-optimised compute ...

The Design and Verification Conference & Exhibition Europe (DVCon Europe) is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. The event will be held in Munich (14 and 15 November, followed by a SystemC Evolution day on 16 November). This year, the event will include a research track and authors from universities and research institutes are invited to contribute research papers for consideration. ...

UK Asic design consultancy Sondrel has recruited industry veteran Gareth Jones, with over 25 years of asic and foundry experience, to head up its asic services. Jones (pictured) joins from TSMC where he was EMEA director of marketing. “Gareth has the perfect set of skills to drive the expansion of our turn-key asic services,” said Sondrel CEO Graham Curren. “He ...

The Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition (DVCon Europe) takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday 26-27 October and SystemC Evolution Day will be Thursday 28 October. The event, sponsored by Accellera Systems Initiative, the EDA standard organisation, will be a 3D VR environment. Avatars will mingle in a virtual conference centre, with tantalising glimpses of Munich to be seen through ...