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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 ...

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 ...

There’s a photonics IC for AI in datacentres, Synopsys buys Intrinsic, Renesas RISC-V MCUs, a Mannerisms tale of Einstein, and automotive mosfets to reduce heat… 5. TeraSignal adds photonics IC for scaling AI bandwidth in datacentres TeraSignal, the photonics specialist, has announced an intelligent re-driver device for scaling AI bandwidth in data centers. The TS8401/02 intelligent 400G (4x100G) PAM4 modulator ...

Synopsys is expanding its Synopsys.ai EDA suite to bring GenAI across the full stack  to  improve engineering productivity for the semiconductor industry. This expands upon Synopsys’ recent announcement to deliver Synopsys.ai Copilot, the first in a series of GenAI capabilities for chip design. Early collaborations with AMD, Intel, and Microsoft have substantiated the power of generative AI for chip design. ...

Synopsys and Microsoft have developed Synopsys.ai Copilot which designs ICs for the Azure Open AI Service. Synopsys.ai is an AI-driven EDA suite. Azure OpenAI Service gives access to OpenAI’s large language models (LLMs) with the enterprise-ready capabilities of Microsoft Azure. Together, the companies collaborated to support Synopsys’ development of Synopsys.ai Copilot, bringing together Azure OpenAI Service generative AI capabilities with ...

Intel and Synopsys are to develop IP on Intel 3 and Intel 18A for Intel’s foundry customers. The availability of  IP on Intel advanced process nodes is intended to create a more robust offering for IFS customers. As part of the transaction, Synopsys will enable a range of its standardised interface IP portfolio on Intel’s  process technologies. As a result, ...

Synopsys has picked Microsoft’s Azure HBv3 cloud to offer pay-as-you-go on-line IC design and verification electronic design automation (EDA) tools, to be called Synopsys Cloud. “As more design flows incorporate AI, requiring even more resources, the virtually unlimited compute and EDA access we’re providing will deliver a flexible, secure chip development environment for future demands,” said Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi. “Synopsys Cloud ...

Synopsys has unified the workflow through its existing reliability analysis tools for analogue, mixed-signal and custom IC designs – integrating them into its PrimeWave design environment, along with PrimeSim Continuum that announced in April. The unified workflow is to be called PrimeSim Reliability Analysism and is an umbrella for its CKK, Custom Fault, AVA, SPRES, EMIR and  MOSRA tools (see table ...

Moortec, the Plymouth on-chip monitoring IP specialist, has been bought by Synopsys. Synopsys rolled out its Silicon Lifecycle Management (SLM) platform last month and the Moortec technology adds an important element to provide a broad range of monitors and sensors for more detailed visibility into the chip’s operation. Moortec’s PVT sensors are claimed to be the most advanced in the industry and represent ...