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Synopsys Wins Frost & Sullivan's 2025 Global Technology Innovation Award

In a recent announcement, Frost & Sullivan acknowledged Synopsys, a leader in silicon-to-systems design solutions, with the prestigious 2025 Global Technology Innovation Leadership Award for its remarkable advancements in analog in-memory computing (AIMC). This accolade highlights Synopsys' commitment to product innovation, strategic execution, and customer-centric enablement in the evolving landscape of AI-driven design technology.

Frost & Sullivan's awards serve to recognize companies that excel in innovating strategies, improving market share, and advancing customer satisfaction. Synopsys distinguished itself by delivering tools specifically designed to navigate the complexities inherent in analog design, thereby slashing design time and enhancing productivity for sophisticated system-on-chip (SoC) architectures employing AIMC.

As noted by Jabez Mendelson, research manager at Frost & Sullivan, "Synopsys has created a comprehensive and integrated suite of technologies that significantly reduces the barriers to the development of analog in-memory compute systems, especially benefiting startups and innovators in the AI hardware domain." This favorable positioning is further bolstered by their unique platform combining AI-enhanced tools with impressive simulation performance and cloud-native delivery.

Sanjay Bali, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Product Management at Synopsys, expressed gratitude for the recognition, stating, "We are dedicated to empowering our customers to tackle the growing design complexities while unlocking new innovations both at the edge and in the cloud. This award emphasizes our endeavor to offer industry-leading, AI-powered Electronic Design Automation (EDA) solutions, aimed at simplifying analog design migration, boosting productivity, and accelerating the development of advanced AI chips."

Notable Analog Design Solutions from Synopsys

Synopsys has gained trust from various startups, leading design firms, and semiconductor foundries through its robust analog solutions, including:

• - Synopsys PrimeSim™: This cutting-edge tool is recognized as the fastest GPU-accelerated SPICE simulator in the industry, providing advanced Machine Learning-based High-Sigma Monte Carlo analysis and library characterization. With speeds up to 15 times faster on NVIDIA GH200 Superchips, and projections to reach 30 times faster on the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell platform, PrimeSim enables efficient circuit simulations to be completed in hours rather than days, thereby driving innovation and productivity.

• - Synopsys Custom Compiler™ and PrimeWave™ Design Environment: These tools work in tandem to deliver powerful analog and mixed-signal design capabilities, facilitating seamless integration and reliable analysis to support innovative chip designs.

• - Synopsys Cloud: This offering grants instant, browser-based access to the comprehensive Synopsys EDA suite along with computing infrastructure and preconfigured flows. The cloud environment has been credited for accelerating time-to-results by an average of 40%, significantly enhancing development processes.

Collaborative Efforts and Future Directions

According to Tim Costa, Senior Director at NVIDIA, "Circuit simulation is a crucial aspect of semiconductor design, known for its high computational demands. Collaborating with NVIDIA, Synopsys' PrimeSim benefits from CUDA-X and Grace Blackwell technology to unlock the next generation of processors that will drive the industrial AI revolution."

Synopsys' breadth of analog design solutions encompasses unmatched capabilities such as Synopsys ASO.ai™, an AI-driven layout-aware optimization tool to facilitate rapid IP migration across process nodes, ensuring robust mixed-signal flows, real-time viewing for verification speed-ups of 5X to 10X, and precise transistor-level static timing analysis through Synopsys NanoTime.

Hyung-Ock Kim, Vice President at Samsung Electronics, emphasized the significance of their collaboration, stating, "As the complexity of design increases at advanced process nodes, our partnership with Synopsys is invaluable for aiding our customers in overcoming design challenges. Merging Samsung Foundry's leading-edge technologies with Synopsys' AI-driven tools facilitates breakthroughs in performance and efficiency, advancing our semiconductor design timelines."

For further information about Synopsys' innovative analog solutions, please visit their official website.