/> Customer design teams will benefit from the availability of Synopsys tools which are optimized to work with the ARM Cortex-A15 processor, and which help deliver the required SoC performance, power and area. By providing designers with improved tools to create optimized SoCs, ARM and Synopsys will enable mutual customers to get differentiated products to market more quickly and with lower risk.

SoC designers are under constant pressure to quickly deliver SoCs that utilize leading technology and offer gigahertz performance with milliwatt power, all while reducing cost. The agreement between ARM and Synopsys is designed to enable ARM Cortex-A15 processor licensees to quickly achieve more effective results.

Partnership has always been at the heart of the ARM business model. The new agreement with Synopsys builds on our successful history of jointly delivering leading solutions to the world's most advanced semiconductor companies, said Mike Muller, Chief Technical Officer, ARM. To be successful in the rapidly growing mobile internet space, semiconductor companies need to deliver much higher levels of performance within tight power constraints and in even shorter periods of time. This agreement allows customer design teams to benefit from the experience gained by Synopsys and ARM during initial development and with licensees of the ARM Cortex-A15 processor.

This agreement will help our mutual customers more quickly deliver differentiated products to market, said Antun Domic, Senior VP and General Manager of the Implementation Group of Synopsys. Companies have already benefited from many ARM-Synopsys collaborations, including low power methodology and reference implementation methodologies. Building on our relationship, this agreement will help accelerate the next generation of differentiated ARM-powered products.