Synopsys, Inc. today announced it will report results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2012 on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, 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. and Sigrity, Inc. today unveiled an enhanced solution that accelerates signal integrity simulation of high-speed systems. In the latest release of the HSPICE circuit simulator, Synopsys has employed in-memory communication to deliver deeper integration with Sigrity's signal integrity analysis offerings.

Synopsys, Inc. today announced that Yamaha has adopted the Synopsys Processor Designer tool for the development of its custom-designed digital signal processing (DSP) devices. Using the Processor Designer tool to automate the design and implementation of its XMP-1 DSP, Yamaha doubled the number of sound channels for their high definition sound generator device and taped out six months, or 50 percent, earlier compared to their previous generation ...

Synopsys, Inc. announced today that it has closed the acquisition of ExpertIO, Inc. The addition of ExpertIO's team of protocol experts and its strong portfolio of storage VIP will accelerate Synopsys' delivery of a broad line-up of high-performance, easy-to-use, full-featured VIP that can help designers address their growing verification challenges. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

Synopsys, Inc. today announced that Picochip Ltd., who recently signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Mindspeed Technologies Inc, has successfully achieved first silicon success using Synopsys' Lynx Design System and Galaxy Implementation Platform in the design of its next-generation 40-nanometer (nm) PC3008 picoXcell femtocell chip optimized for high-volume, cost-sensitive consumer applications.

Synopsys, Inc. today announced the endorsement of Proteus lithography rule check (LRC) at Nanya Technology Corporation, a member of the Formosa Plastics Group and a global leader in advanced memory semiconductors focusing on research and development, design, manufacturing and sales of DRAM products. Industry-leading accuracy is achieved through the combined use of production-proven Proteus compact models and the integrated Sentaurus Lithography r...

Synopsys, Inc and Global Unichip Corporation announces that GUC has achieved more than one gigahertz frequency on a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor with Synopsys IC Compiler, a key component of Synopsys' Galaxy Implementation Platform. Synopsys' high-performance Galaxy implementation methodology was instrumental in achieving more than one gigahertz frequency with minimum power, while reducing schedule risk.

Synopsys, Inc. today announced that GLOBALFOUNDRIES has certified Synopsys' IC Validator physical verification product for 28-nanometer (nm), 40-nm and 65-nm physical signoff, with immediate availability of design rule checks (DRC) and layout-versus-schematic (LVS) runsets to GLOBALFOUNDRIES customers

Synopsys, Inc. has announced that industry leaders worldwide have broadly deployed and successfully taped out more than 125 advanced multi-voltage designs using the Galaxy™ Implementation Platform low power solution and IEEE-1801 Unified Power Format (UPF) resulting in significant productivity, power and chip performance gains.

Synopsys has reported results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2011. For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011, Synopsys reported revenue of $390.5 million, compared to $375.5 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010. Revenue for fiscal year 2011 was $1.536 billion, an increase of 11.2 percent from $1.38 billion in fiscal 2010.

Synopsys has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Magma Design Automation Inc. a provider of chip design software headquartered in San Jose, California. Bringing together complementary technology, development and support capabilities will enable the combined company to more rapidly meet customer requirements linked to chip designs at both leading-edge and mature process nodes.

Synopsys has announced updates to its Identify and Certify FPGA-based prototyping tools. Algorithm advancements in the latest Certify software release produce up to 30 percent faster FPGA-to-FPGA transmission performance using High-Speed Time Domain Multiplexing which results in higher overall performance of designs prototyped with Synopsys' HAPS FPGA-based prototyping systems. The new Certify and Identify software tools also incorporate incremen...

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.