Acquired for $11 million cash, issuance of 46,000 shares of common stock and reserve of 21,000 shares of common stock for issuance under Stanza’s 1998 stock option plan (total consideration $15.4 million). Acquired for $2.3 million cash, notes payable of $2.2 million (total consideration $4.5 million). Acquired for $7.7 million, including cash payments of $7.5 million. Acquired for $3 million, including cash payments of $1.8 million. The CycleC product was incorporated into Synopsys’ VCS Verilog simulator, and the rest of C Level’s product line was discontinued. C Level Design ceased operations in 2001 and sold its technology to Synopsys.
Synopsys acquired the verification assets of Qualis, integrating Qualis’ Domain Verification Component technology into its DesignWare product. Verification IP assets of Qualis in 2003.Acquired for total consideration of $23.8 million. Acquired for total consideration of $12.2 million. Acquired for total upfront consideration of $15.8 million and contingent consideration of up to $10 million. Integrated Systems Engineering AG in 2004.Total consideration including that investment was approximately $15.7 million. In 2004 Synopsys invested in HPL, buying a 20% stake in the company. Acquired for total cash consideration of $200.2 million. Acquired for $223.3 million in cash and $4 million in stock awards. Acquired for approximately $299.5 million in cash. Synopsys spent $37.4M on purchase of CoWare, VaST and Gemini. VaST Systems Technology Corporation in 2010.$24.0 million in cash and future contingent cash payments. nSys Design Systems Private Limited in 2011.Luminescent Mask Synthesis technology in 2012.Emulation and Verification Engineering in 2012.US$406 million (NT$12.2 billion), or approximately US$305 million (NT$9.2 billion) net of cash acquired. Static analysis technology from Forcheck in 2017.
The company’s license structure ranges from renewable TSLs to term licenses and perpetual licenses. Target markets are IoT, including wearables and smart medical devices, automotive/autonomous vehicles, and security. It also develops tools for optical communication and TCAD, and IP ranging from standard interfaces to memory controllers and audio subsystems.
The company also provides tools for early software prototyping and virtualization, and for determining the integrity of software that runs on hardware across a variety of vertical markets. Synopsys is the largest of the Big Three EDA suppliers by revenue and a major supplier of semiconductor IP.įounded in 1986, Synopsys develops a complete flow of EDA software, from initial design and system modeling through verification and design for manufacturability.