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History
22 related topics
Geographic presence
45 related topics
Mergers and acquisitions
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Markets and competition
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- Founded
- 1986; 40 years ago (1986), in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, U.S.
- Founders
- Aart de Geus · David Gregory · Bill Krieger
- Industry
- Integrated circuit · Software as a service · Software testing · Internet of Things
- Headquarters
- Sunnyvale, California, U.S.
- Divisions
- Silicon Design & Verification, Silicon Intellectual Property, Software Integrity Group
- Key people
- Aart de Geus (chairman) · Sassine Ghazi (president & CEO)
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Overview
- Multinational Multinational corporation
- Electronic design automation
- Sunnyvale, California
- Chips Integrated circuit
- Electronic system-level design and verification
- Intellectual property
- Semiconductor
- Manufacturing Semiconductor device fabrication
- Digital Digital circuit
- Analog circuits Analog circuit
- Simulators Simulation
- Debugging
History
- Aart de Geus
- Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
- Research Triangle Park
- Logic synthesis
- General Electric
- Mountain View, California
- Public company
- Initial public offering
- NASDAQ
- Supercomputer
- Off-the-shelf Commercial off-the-shelf
- TOP500
- LINPACK benchmark
- Nasdaq-100
- S&P 500
- Artificial intelligence
- Reinforcement learning
- Microsoft
- Large language models Large language model
- OpenAI
- #Mergers and acquisitions Synopsys
- Ansys
Markets and competition
Geographic presence
Adoption of AI technologies
- AlphaGo
- Lee Sedol
- Cloud-based Cloud computing
- Place and route
- Tape-outs Tape-out
- Renesas
- Azure Microsoft Azure
- Generative AI
Mergers and acquisitions
- SoC System on a chip
- Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre IMEC
- Electronic system-level
- Static Static program analysis
- Dynamic Vulnerability scanner
- Design rule checking
- Layout versus schematic
- ASIC
- TCAD Technology CAD
- Optical proximity correction
- Major lawsuit from Cadence Cadence Design Systems, Inc. v. Avanti Corp
- California Supreme Court
- Silvaco
- Meta-Software
- Magma Design Automation
- Phase-shifting mask
- VLSI
- Taiwanese National Science Council National Science Council (Taiwan)
- Silicon Valley
- Programmable logic devices
- FPGAs Field-programmable gate array
- PLDs Programmable logic device
- CPLDs Complex programmable logic device
- Verification Verification and validation
- FPGA-based ASIC prototyping FPGA prototyping
- DSP Digital signal processor
- ARC ARC (processor)
- Argonaut Argonaut Software
- RISC
- Internet of things
Export control restrictions
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Nodes154
Edges153
Triples352
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.012987
Components1
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Synopsys
Top relations
related to Geographic presence · 40
Synopsys → Armenia, As, Asia, Bangalore, Bengaluru, California, Canada, China, Europe, European, France, Grenoble, Gyumri, Headquartered, Hyderabad, In Canada, In France, India, Its, Korea
related to Business in the United States · 29
Synopsys → Agency, AISS, American, Applied Materials, ARM, Automatic Implementation, Boeing, Cadence, DARPA, Defense, Defense Advanced Research Projects, EDA, Government Alliance, Hewlett Packard, IBM, In, In October, Intel's US Military Aerospace, IP, QBI
related to Avanti Corporation · 28
Synopsys → Apollo II, ArcSys, ASIC, At, Avant, Avanti, Avanti Corporation, Cadence, Cadence Design Systems, California Supreme Court, Compass Design Automation, EDA, Hercules, IC, Integrated Silicon Solutions, ISS, June, Meta-Software, No, Proteus
related to history · 21
Synopsys → Aart, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Bill Krieger, California, David Gregory, EDA, Engineering Group, February, General Electric's Advanced Computer-Aided, Geus, In, It, LINPACK, Linux, Mountain View, NASDAQ, North Carolina, Optimal Solutions, Research Triangle Park, The
related to Adoption of AI technologies · 14
Synopsys → According, AI, AI-based, Design Space Optimization AI, DSO, EDA, Go, Google's AlphaGo, In, In March, Lee Sedol, Smart Everything Everywhere, The, This
related to Business in China · 14
Synopsys → Bloomberg, Cadence Design Systems, China, Chinese, Commerce, Huawei's HiSilicon, In, In April, Michael McCaul, People's Liberation Army's, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, Tom Cotton, United States Department, Washington Post
related to Black Duck Software · 13
Synopsys → Black Duck Software, Clearlake Capital, December, Doug Levin, Francisco Partners, In October, It, May, Open Hub, SIG, Software Integrity Group, Synopsys Software Integrity Group, The
related to Export control restrictions · 12
Synopsys → According, Bureau, China, However, In May, Industry, July, May, Reuters, Security, The, US
related to ARC International · 11
Synopsys → ARC, ARC International, ARC International PLC, ARC-V CPU IP, Argonaut RISC Core, GlobalFoundries, In January, IoT, IP, SoC, Virage Logic
related to Offices in Armenia · 11
Synopsys → DFM, EDA, Gyumri, In, IP, IT, Synopsys Armenia, Synopsys Armenia's, The Armenian, United States, Yerevan
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Important terminology
design software company automation tools semiconductor electronic acquisition announced acquired million eda ai chip verification companies ip research 2024 security
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Synopsys | Divisions | Silicon Design & Verification, Silicon Intellectual Property, Software Integrity Group | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Founded | 1986; 40 years ago (1986), in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, U.S. | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Founders | Aart de Geus | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Founders | David Gregory | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Founders | Bill Krieger | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Headquarters | Sunnyvale, California, U.S. | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Industry | Integrated circuit | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Industry | Software as a service | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Industry | Software testing | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Industry | Internet of Things | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Key people | Aart de Geus (chairman) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Key people | Sassine Ghazi (president & CEO) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Net income | US$1.33 billion (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Number of employees | c. 25,000 (2026) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Operating income | US$915 million (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Revenue | US$7.05 billion (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Total assets | US$48.2 billion (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Total equity | US$28.3 billion (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Traded as | Nasdaq: SNPS | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Traded as | Nasdaq-100 component | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Traded as | S&P 500 component | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Type | Public | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | Website | synopsys.com | 1.00 | infobox |
| Synopsys | is a | second largest semiconductor design intellectual property | 0.90 | text |
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