Synopsys is a technology company that specializes in electronic design automation (EDA), semiconductor intellectual property (IP), and software quality and security solutions. Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an office in Tokyo, Japan, Synopsys provides tools that automate the chip design process, enhancing design accuracy and productivity. Its offerings include software for designing application-specific integrated circuits and system-on-chip solutions, alongside consulting services. The company focuses on helping businesses manage and test their software for security and quality, addressing the growing needs of semiconductor and systems companies as they increasingly adopt in-house chip design and integrate more complex digital solutions.
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Baya Systems
Series B in 2025
Baya Systems specializes in chipset-based semiconductor technology, focusing on high-performance, modular systems that enhance intelligent computing across diverse applications. The company has developed innovative chiplet technology, which allows semiconductor manufacturers to create efficient chips by deconstructing complex designs into smaller, modular components. This approach addresses the growing complexity of semiconductor design while reducing overall design cycles, positioning Baya Systems as a key player in the evolution of modular semiconductor solutions.
Intrinsic ID
Acquisition in 2024
Intrinsic ID B.V. specializes in digital authentication solutions, primarily utilizing its proprietary SRAM Physical Unclonable Function (SRAM PUF) technology. Founded in 2008 and based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, with operations in Korea, the company develops a range of products aimed at enhancing security for Internet of Things (IoT) and embedded applications. Its offerings include Broadkey, a secure key management software; Citadel, a key provisioning system; Quiddicard, which focuses on remotely programming keys; and Quiddikey, a solution for reconstructing on-chip secret keys without storage. These technologies are designed to validate payment systems, secure connectivity, authenticate sensors, and safeguard sensitive government and military data and systems.
Efabless
Series A in 2023
Efabless is a community-driven semiconductor company that connects chip designers with customers seeking innovative electronic products. Founded to foster demand-driven innovation in the semiconductor industry, Efabless emphasizes a collaborative approach to hardware design and commercialization. By leveraging crowd-sourcing, the company enables users to define, develop, and monetize their designs through a global network of talented engineers. This model aims to improve electronics by enhancing integration, power utilization, and intellectual property protection. Efabless partners with reliable foundries to bring customer-centric innovations to market, effectively reviving the spirit of grassroots innovation in the semiconductor field.
Piketec
Acquisition in 2023
PikeTec GmbH, founded in 2007 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in developing testing tools and services for embedded software, particularly in the automotive sector. The company is known for its Time Partition Testing (TPT) tool, which enhances the efficiency of testing and verifying control units and regulation systems. PikeTec offers a comprehensive range of services that include consulting on test processes and methods, project analysis, and best practice workshops. Additionally, the company provides engineering services such as module, integration, and system testing, along with test management and TPT qualification. Furthermore, PikeTec engages in the development and integration of specialized tools and offers training programs tailored to various skill levels in TPT. Through its focused approach, PikeTec helps clients improve their testing and verification processes, ensuring safety and reliability in embedded systems development.
Moortec Semiconductor
Acquisition in 2020
Moortec Semiconductor Ltd. specializes in providing analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) solutions for the semiconductor industry. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Plymouth, United Kingdom, the company focuses on embedded process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) monitoring technologies tailored for advanced node system on chip (SoC) designs, ranging from 40nm to 7nm processes. Moortec's IP products include process detectors, voltage monitors, temperature sensors, and PVT controllers, which enable in-chip monitoring and enhance device reliability and performance optimization. These solutions support various applications, including dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS), adaptive voltage scaling (AVS), and power management systems. Moortec serves multiple sectors, including consumer electronics, automotive, medical, and telecommunications, and is recognized for its strong support in IP application, integration, and device testing during production.
QTronic
Acquisition in 2019
QTronic GmbH, founded in 2006 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in the development of automation platforms and tools for automotive software. The company provides a range of solutions aimed at enhancing the simulation, testing, and development of automotive systems. Its flagship products include Silver, a virtual ECU platform that enables the transfer of development tasks from physical environments to Microsoft Windows PCs, and TestWeaver, an intelligent test automation solution featuring a powerful test case generator that requires minimal specification. As of October 2019, QTronic operates as a subsidiary of Synopsys, Inc.
Kilopass
Acquisition in 2018
Kilopass Technology Inc. specializes in developing and marketing advanced embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) technology, utilizing standard logic CMOS processes. The company is a leader in high-density logic NVM solutions, designed for system-on-chip (SoC) applications, which offer reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness. Kilopass's flagship product, Extra Permanent Memory (XPM), serves various purposes including electrically field-programmable firmware storage, security identification, analog circuit calibration, yield enhancement, and integrated circuit configuration. This technology is particularly advantageous for the semiconductor industry, addressing long-standing challenges in NVM integration across diverse markets and applications. Kilopass's products are compatible with advanced Customer Owned Tooling and Application Specific Integrated Circuit markets, and they are tailored for leading foundries and process geometries, providing significant design opportunities and cost savings for manufacturers.
Sidense
Acquisition in 2017
Sidense is a prominent developer of silicon-proven embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP). The company specializes in one-time programmable (OTP) memory and logic NVM, which are designed to enhance a variety of electronic products. Sidense's IP cores facilitate code storage and processor configuration, allowing semiconductor and systems companies to differentiate their products while optimizing design efficiency. By integrating these IP cores into system-on-chip (SoC) designs, clients can achieve a smaller footprint and improved performance in their electronic offerings.
Atrenta
Acquisition in 2015
Atrenta is a provider of innovative solutions for the semiconductor and consumer electronics industries, specializing in design efficiency through its SpyGlass Predictive Analysis software platform. This platform offers early design insights into the performance, power, and area requirements of complex system on chips (SoCs), which are essential for modern consumer electronics. By enabling design engineers to identify structural, coding, and consistency issues in register transfer language (RTL), Atrenta's technology allows for enhanced testability during RTL creation. The company's patented solutions are utilized by over two hundred companies and thousands of design engineers globally, helping to mitigate risks and reduce costs before the deployment of traditional electronic design automation (EDA) tools. SpyGlass serves as an interactive guidance system, optimizing the implementation process for complex SoCs and ensuring greater efficiency and confidence in design outcomes.
Target Compiler Technologies
Acquisition in 2014
Target Compiler Technologies, based in Leuven, Belgium, specializes in software tools for the design, programming, and verification of application-specific instruction-set processors (ASIPs). These processors enhance traditional processor architectures by allowing designers to create customized, software programmable engines tailored for compute-intensive digital signal and data plane processing. Target Compiler Technologies serves clients in the electronic systems and semiconductor industries, providing solutions that facilitate the development of specialized processing capabilities.
SpringSoft
Acquisition in 2012
SpringSoft is a software company specializing in electronic design automation products. Founded in 2012 and based in California, it provides a range of services that include the design and development of silicon-to-software systems. SpringSoft focuses on verification of integrated circuits, embedded systems, and systems-on-chips, catering to the semiconductor and electronic systems industries. Additionally, the company offers expertise in automotive, IoT, FinFET technology, and power-saving solutions, along with services such as prototyping, software integrity, methodology consulting, design flow deployment, and SoC integration and verification.
Ciranova
Acquisition in 2012
Ciranova, Inc. is an electronic design automation company based in Santa Clara, California, established in 2002. The company specializes in developing interoperable tools aimed at aiding custom chip designers in the creation and migration of legacy analog intellectual property (IP). Its product offerings include PyCell Studio, which streamlines the creation of parameterized cells (PCell) and layout generators for advanced manufacturing processes, and PCell Xtreme, designed to facilitate the migration of PCells from proprietary languages into multi-vendor OpenAccess environments. Additionally, Ciranova provides services such as custom layout generator development, Python code development consulting, and analog and mixed-signal design support, enabling engineers to integrate complex RF, analog, and mixed-signal content into nanometer-scale silicon efficiently.
ExpertIO
Acquisition in 2012
ExpertIO specializes in verification IP for industry-standard protocols, focusing on internet protocol verification services. The company is dedicated to developing system architectures that identify and verify internet protocol addresses for various computer hardware. With extensive industry experience, ExpertIO aims to deliver high-quality results in verification testing. Additionally, the company offers consulting services related to verification test coding and design debugging, ensuring that clients receive comprehensive support in their technical endeavors.
Extreme DA
Acquisition in 2011
Extreme DA, Corp. is an electronic design automation company based in Santa Clara, California, established in 2003. The company specializes in variation-aware parametric yield analysis, optimization, and specification sign-off of integrated circuit designs prior to their transfer to manufacturing. Its product offerings include GoldTime, a tool for static analysis and timing sign-off that conducts variation-aware timing analysis, and the ROAD Suite, which facilitates statistical analysis and optimization across digital, analog/RF, memory, and mixed-signal circuits. Additionally, Extreme DA provides Variability solutions that deliver variation data related to transistor and interconnect geometry parameters, and E-test data. The company's tools are essential for ensuring that integrated circuit designs meet performance standards before manufacturing.
nSys Design Systems
Acquisition in 2011
nSys Design Systems specializes in the development of verification intellectual properties (VIPs) for a wide range of standard interfaces and protocols, including PCIe, Ethernet, USB, and SATA, among others. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of verification IPs that includes bus functional models (BFMs), monitors, assertion-based checkers, and test suites aimed at compliance testing and functional coverage. These verification solutions are available in native SystemVerilog and Verilog, with source code options, and are compatible with various programming languages such as 'e', SystemC, OpenVera, and VHDL across commonly used simulators and platforms. Additionally, nSys provides verification services including independent verification, SystemVerilog migration, and consulting, catering to the needs of clients in storage, communications, consumer memory, and mobile applications.
Ciranova
Venture Round in 2010
Ciranova, Inc. is an electronic design automation company based in Santa Clara, California, established in 2002. The company specializes in developing interoperable tools aimed at aiding custom chip designers in the creation and migration of legacy analog intellectual property (IP). Its product offerings include PyCell Studio, which streamlines the creation of parameterized cells (PCell) and layout generators for advanced manufacturing processes, and PCell Xtreme, designed to facilitate the migration of PCells from proprietary languages into multi-vendor OpenAccess environments. Additionally, Ciranova provides services such as custom layout generator development, Python code development consulting, and analog and mixed-signal design support, enabling engineers to integrate complex RF, analog, and mixed-signal content into nanometer-scale silicon efficiently.
Synfora
Acquisition in 2010
Synfora, Inc. specializes in developing program-in chip-out (PICO) technology, which includes a suite of tools and intellectual property aimed at creating application engines from sequential untimed C algorithms. This technology is particularly applicable in fields such as audio, video, imaging, wireless, and security. The company offers software tools and services that facilitate the design of systems-on-chips and field-programmable gate arrays. Key products include PICO Express, which assesses parallelism to meet throughput requirements and generates the necessary hardware for algorithm execution, and PICO Express FPGA, which synthesizes algorithms into hardware application engines while ensuring seamless integration with existing systems. Founded in 2003, Synfora is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with additional offices in Japan, South Korea, France, India, and Taiwan.
CoWare
Acquisition in 2010
CoWare, Inc. provides electronic system-level design software and consulting services primarily to IP, semiconductor, and electronics companies. The company specializes in platform-driven solutions that facilitate platform architecture design, verification, application sub-system design, processor design, DSP algorithm design, and software development. Key products include Platform Architect, a graphical environment for platform analysis; Model Designer for IP block verification; and Virtual Platform, which simulates platforms for software development teams. CoWare also offers a Model Library containing various processor, bus, and peripheral models, and Processor Designer for creating custom processors and programmable hardware accelerators. Additionally, the Signal Processing Designer enables the design and analysis of signal processing algorithms, exporting implementations as blocks. CoWare's suite of tools supports the creation and validation of virtual hardware platforms, streamlining development processes for device software.
VaST Systems Technology
Acquisition in 2010
VaST Systems Technology Corporation specializes in providing tools and models for embedded systems design automation. The company offers a range of products, including CoMET, a system engineering tool for creating software simulation-based virtual prototypes of system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs, and METeor, a development environment for embedded systems. Additionally, VaST provides Metrix, which analyzes the behavior and performance of hardware and software components in virtual prototypes, as well as a peripheral device builder for modeling peripheral devices. Its services encompass architecture and systems engineering, embedded software development, and solutions for wireless, telecom, consumer, and automotive applications. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, VaST Systems Technology also maintains sales and support offices in various locations, including Austin, Munich, Paris, NSW, and Tokyo. The company has been operating as a subsidiary of Synopsys Inc. since 2010.
ZEROSOFT
Acquisition in 2010
Zerosoft Inc. is a privately held company provides concurrent simulations of a hardware design.
Ciranova
Series D in 2008
Ciranova, Inc. is an electronic design automation company based in Santa Clara, California, established in 2002. The company specializes in developing interoperable tools aimed at aiding custom chip designers in the creation and migration of legacy analog intellectual property (IP). Its product offerings include PyCell Studio, which streamlines the creation of parameterized cells (PCell) and layout generators for advanced manufacturing processes, and PCell Xtreme, designed to facilitate the migration of PCells from proprietary languages into multi-vendor OpenAccess environments. Additionally, Ciranova provides services such as custom layout generator development, Python code development consulting, and analog and mixed-signal design support, enabling engineers to integrate complex RF, analog, and mixed-signal content into nanometer-scale silicon efficiently.
LEDA Systems
Acquisition in 2004
LEDA Systems Inc., founded in 1995, is a leader in the field of mixed-signal and analog silicon intellectual property (IP) design and development. LEDA is a single, comprehensive source for silicon-proven mixed-signal IP. It has licensed its technology to more than 50 customers for the development, manufacture and sales of high-performance integrated circuits (ICs).
Analog Design Automation
Acquisition in 2004
Analog Design Automation (ADA) specializes in developing automated circuit optimization software for analog, mixed-signal, and custom integrated circuits. Founded in 1999 in Saskatoon, Canada, by a group of engineers from the University of Saskatchewan, the company initially secured funding through a combination of grants and investments, including significant contributions from notable firms and institutions. ADA's software automates critical processes such as device sizing and biasing to enhance circuit performance, while also offering tools like IP Explorer, which visually presents circuit performance data. In 2004, ADA was acquired by Synopsys Inc., further integrating its innovative solutions into the broader semiconductor industry.
Adaptive Silicon
Series A in 2000
Adaptive Silicon licenses Programmable Logic Cores for the purpose of adding programmability to system-on-chip devices. This programmability permits multiple designs to be built on a single silicon die and enables products to be re-programmed after they are built and in service.
Interactive Silicon
Series B in 1999
Interactive Silicon is a technology-based, intellectual property company that is turning LOTS of heads with its breakthrough memory technology.
Smartech Oy
Acquisition in 1999
Smartech Oy (Tampere), an independent provider of system-on-a-chip (SOC) designservices.
Everest Design Automation
Acquisition in 1998
Everest Design Automation is a privately held shape-based, top-level-routing technology targeted at handling the complexities of SOC.
ViewLogic Systems
Acquisition in 1997
Viewlogic Systems, headquartered in Marlboro, Massachusetts, develops and markets integrated e-products, design software, and services for advanced electronic systems. With offices in North America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim, the company is known for its Internet Protocol (IP) service-measurement software. Viewlogic Systems specializes in developing service assurance software for IP networks to monitor services provided by Internet service providers to their customers.
Compiled Designs GmbH
Acquisition in 1993
Compiled Designs is a privately held company provides VHDL modeling and simulation services. Compiled Designs GmbH is based in Munich, Germany.
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