Synopsys

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Synopsys, Inc. Template:Nasdaq is one of the three largest competitors in the electronic design automation industry, founded in 1986 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Synopsys' most well-known (and first) product is Design Compiler. Synopsys offers a wide range of other products used in the design of an Application-specific integrated circuit. Products include place and route, static timing analysis, and Verilog and VHDL simulators. The simulators include a powerful debugging environment which assists in the design of the logic for chips and computer systems.

Contents

1 History

1.1 Acquisitions, mergers, spinoffs
1.2 Finance

2 Management Team

3 Notable persons

4 External links

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History

The company was founded in 1986 as Optimal Solutions by Dr. Aart J. de Geus and a team of engineers from General Electric's Microelectronics Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Since then it went through a series of acquisitions, the most significant being that of Avanti Corporation, which was the #4 company in the EDA industry at that time.

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Acquisitions, mergers, spinoffs

1997: acquired EPIC Design Technology Inc., USA
1997: acquired Viewlogic Systems, Inc., USA
June 6, 2002: merger with Avanti Corporation, USA
February 23, 2004: acquired Accelerant Networks, USA
February 26, 2004: acquired technology assets of Analog Design Automation, Inc., USA
October 2004: acquired assets of Monterey Design Systems, Inc., USA (Note: a development division in Armenia)
October 18, 2004: acquired Cascade Semiconductor Solutions Inc., USA
Nivember 2, 2004: acquired Integrated Systems Engineering AG (ISE), Switzerland, a TCAD company.
November 2, 2004: acquired assets of LEDA Design, Inc., USA, a developer of mixed-signal intellectual property. (Note: a development division in Armenia)
December 1, 2004: agreement to acquire Nassda Corp., USA, an intergated circuit simulator company and settle the litigation between the two companies

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Finance

Fiscal year 2004
- Revenue: 1.09B
- Employees:4,447
Fiscal year 2003
- Revenue: 1.18B
- Employees:4,408

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Management Team

Dr. Aart J. de Geus, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Chi-Foon Chan, President and Chief Operating Officer
Vicki Andrews, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales
Dr. Raul Camposano, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, and General Manager, Silicon Engineering Group
John Chilton, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Solutions Group
Jan Collinson, Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Facilities
Dr. Antun Domic, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Implementation Group
Manoj Gandhi, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Verification Group
Jay Greenberg, Senior Vice President, Marketing
Deirdre Hanford, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Application Services
Rex S. Jackson, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Acting Chief Financial Officer

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