CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom and
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Sept. 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
Highlights:
- Extended collaboration to benefit mutual customers with
optimized Synopsys implementation, verification and software
development tools, and methodologies for design with ARM® IP
- Multi-year subscription agreement gives Synopsys pre-production
access to ARM Cortex® processors for the ARMv8-A and ARMv7-A ARM
architectures, ARM Mali™ GPUs, ARM CoreLink™ system IP, ARM
Artisan® physical IP and ARM POP™ IP
- Agreement spans all Synopsys tools, including Galaxy™ Design
Platform, Verification Continuum™ Platform including Verification
Compiler™ product and ZeBu® emulation, HAPS® FPGA-based prototyping
systems, Platform Architect™ MCO and Virtualizer™ Development
Kits
ARM (LON: ARM; Nasdaq: ARMH) and Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS)
have signed a multi-year subscription agreement that expands
Synopsys' access to a broad range of ARM intellectual property (IP)
and related technologies to enable optimization of Synopsys tools
and methodologies for ARM-based system-on-chips (SoCs). Through
this agreement, Synopsys has pre-production access to ARM Cortex
processors for the ARMv8-A and ARMv7-A architectures, ARM Mali
graphics processors, ARM CoreLink system IP, ARM Artisan physical
IP, and ARM POP IP for implementation acceleration. Building on
more than 20 years of collaboration as well as the August 2012
license agreement between the companies for ARMv7-A processors and
related IP, this new agreement allows Synopsys to further optimize
its design flows and tools for ARM-based SoCs, enabling designers
to meet their power, performance and area goals, while reducing
cost and time-to-market.
"We have collaborated extensively with Synopsys for more than 20
years to ensure our mutual customers can get innovative products to
market quickly and still meet their performance, power and area
targets," said Pete Hutton,
executive vice president and president of product groups, ARM.
"With Synopsys' early access to our latest IP and our ongoing close
collaboration, we can provide our customers solutions that work
effectively together as they design, implement and verify their
SoCs."
With this agreement, Synopsys can develop and distribute
optimized Synopsys tool scripts to ARM partners and deliver
training on the use of Synopsys tools and flows with the ARM IP.
Synopsys' early access to ARM pre-production IP ensures that early
licensees of the latest ARM cores have optimized tools and
methodology in place when they are ready to begin their design
projects. Designers creating products for a broad range of markets,
including wearable, mobile, networking and server, will benefit
from closer integration of the Synopsys tools and ARM IP together
with optimized design flows that can take advantage of process
technologies ranging from leading-edge FinFET to mature
processes.
Building on the foundation of the companies' previous
collaborations, which have delivered solutions that span
implementation, verification, system architecture design and
software development, this new agreement allows the companies to
extend these results to benefit designers using the latest ARM IP.
Reference Implementations (RIs) for ARM processors, library and POP
IP with Synopsys Galaxy implementation tools deliver optimized
power, performance and area. These RIs together with tool
optimizations have led to numerous tape out successes for mutual
customers with ARM's most advanced IP, including the Cortex-A57
CPU, Cortex-A53 CPU and Mali-T760
GPU. Designers using Synopsys' VCS® functional verification and
ZeBu emulation solutions benefit from significantly enhanced
simulation performance for ARM processors and perform
hardware/software debug on Synopsys' Verdi® debug platform with
direct support for ARM Cortex processors. Verification engineers
are verifying the cache-coherent subsystems in their SoCs, taking
advantage of Synopsys verification IP (VIP), ZeBu transactors and
Verdi Protocol Analyzer support of the ARM AMBA® interface
specification, including the latest, AMBA 5 CHI. Software
developers are using Virtualizer Development Kits (VDKs) for ARM
processors to perform early software development, architects are
using Synopsys' Platform Architect™ MCO for early power and
performance optimization of ARM-based systems and system designers
are using HAPS FPGA-based prototyping to accelerate
hardware/software integration and validation of systems based on
ARM CPUs and GPUs.
Designers benefit not only from these design solutions, but also
Synopsys' field expertise and Core Optimization Services developed
over many years of enabling ARM-based design success. ARM, Synopsys
and mutual customers will present examples of these successes at
the upcoming ARM TechCon™, Oct. 1-3,
2014, in Silicon Valley.
"Designers benefit directly from this alignment of the
industry's IP and EDA leaders," said Deirdre Hanford, executive vice president,
customer engagement at Synopsys. "Through collaboration with ARM,
we've been able to accelerate many leading semiconductor companies'
innovations. This new agreement will allow us to deliver timely
design and verification solutions that take advantage of Synopsys'
latest tools and methodology together with ARM's newest, most
advanced IP."
Availability:
Optimized Reference Implementations for the ARM Cortex-A15 CPU,
Cortex-A7 CPU, Mali-T760 GPU and
CoreLink CCI-400 interconnect are available today for the Galaxy
Implementation Platform as well as the Lynx Design System.
Reference Implementations for the Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57
processors are in early access and are anticipated to be generally
available in October, 2014. Reference Implementations for the ARM
Cortex-A17 and an additional ARMv8-A processor are anticipated in
Q4, 2014.
Verification IP and Protocol Analyzer for AMBA protocols,
including AMBA 5 CHI, is available today, separately and included
in Verification Compiler. ZeBu transactor support for AMBA
protocols, including AMBA 5 CHI are available today. Verdi debug platform support for Cortex
processors is available today.
VDKs for ARMv7 and ARMv8 processors, including the Cortex-A53
CPU and Cortex-A57 CPU, are available today.
For more information:
For more information about the ARM-Synopsys collaboration and
Synopsys' optimized solutions for ARM Powered products, please
navigate to http://www.synopsys.com/ARM.
Also, please come see us and our mutual customers live at ARM
TechCon, October 1-3, 2014, in
Silicon Valley, where we will share results of successful
implementation, verification and system design solutions with the
latest ARM processor cores, libraries and interconnects. Visit our
technical sessions as well as our booth (#600). More information is
available about these ARM TechCon sessions and demos at:
http://bit.ly/1uSR52Z.
About ARM
ARM is at the heart of the world's most advanced digital
products. Our technology enables the creation of new markets and
transformation of industries and society. We design scalable,
energy-efficient processors and related technologies to deliver the
intelligence in applications ranging from sensors to servers,
including smartphones, tablets, enterprise infrastructure and the
Internet of Things.
Our innovative technology is licensed by ARM Partners who have
shipped more than 50 billion Systems on Chip (SoCs) containing our
intellectual property since the company began in 1990. Together
with our Connected Community, we are breaking down barriers to
innovation for developers, designers and engineers, ensuring a
fast, reliable route to market for leading electronics companies.
Learn more and join the conversation at
http://community.arm.com.
About Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS) accelerates innovation in the
global electronics market. As a leader in electronic design
automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP, Synopsys delivers software,
IP and services to help engineers address their design,
verification, system and manufacturing challenges. Since 1986,
engineers around the world have been using Synopsys technology to
design and create billions of chips and systems. Learn more at
http://www.synopsys.com.
ARM is a registered trademark of ARM Limited. Synopsys is a
registered trademark of Synopsys, Inc. All other trademarks
mentioned in this release are the intellectual property of their
respective owners.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements within
the meaning of Section 27A of the United States Securities Act of
1933 and Section 21E of the United States Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, including statements regarding the expected outcome and
benefits of the agreement between Synopsys and ARM, including
expected customer results with ARM and Synopsys solutions. These
statements are based on current expectations and beliefs. Actual
results could differ materially from those described by these
statements due to risks and uncertainties including, but not
limited to, technical or other difficulties in developing
solutions, market acceptance of these solutions, unforeseen
production or delivery delays, failure to perform as expected,
product errors or defects and other risks as identified in the
companies' respective filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission, including those described in the "Risk Factors" section
of Synopsys' latest Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
Editorial Contacts:
Monica Marmie
Synopsys, Inc.
650-584-2890
monical@synopsys.com
Phil Hughes
ARM
512-330-1884
Phil.Hughes@arm.com
SOURCE Synopsys, Inc.