CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
2 October 2007
Acquisitions
Synopsys Acquires Sandwork Design
Synopsys, Inc . announced that it has acquired Sandwork Design, Inc., a privately held, Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of analog and mixed-signal (AMS) verification solutions. Sandwork's approach to verification enables engineers to efficiently analyze and debug complex AMS systems-on-chips (SoCs). Sandwork's products, combined with Synopsys' DiscoveryT AMS solution, deliver a comprehensive environment for verification and debug. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed.
"Debug and analysis are critical in analog design and verification," said Paul Lo, senior vice president and general manager, Synopsys AMS Group. "Sandwork's widely-deployed tools like SPICE Explorer and WaveView Analyzer complement our existing solution, adding valuable analog and mixed-signal verification capabilities to Synopsys' portfolio. This acquisition will enable tight integration between Sandwork's tools and Synopsys' Discovery AMS simulators."
Already interoperable with the Synopsys Discovery AMS simulators HSPICE®, HSIM® and Nanosim®, the Sandwork tools include SPICE ExplorerT, a transistor-level design debugging environment, WaveView AnalyzerT a high-capacity, high-performance AMS waveform analyzer, and SpiceCheckT for fast electrical rule checks of transistor-level netlists.
"Low power requirements, third party IP integration, and increasing design complexity are putting extreme pressure on design teams' ability to meet already aggressive schedules," said Dr. Jack Yao, CEO of Sandwork. "The combination of Synopsys' advanced analog verification solution and Sandwork's proven analysis, verification and debug tools will help alleviate this pressure and help enable our customers to further reduce development costs and deliver complex , high-performance chips."
All Sandwork products are immediately available through the local Synopsys sales offices.
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