Find out how Synopsys Professional Services is helping customers around the world solve their toughest system-on-a-chip (SoC) product development challenges.

Oticon Success Story
"Because we were moving to a new, advanced technology node and time-to-market was critical, we used Synopsys’ tapeout-proven Pilot Design Environment, which includes full implementation, formal checking, and physical verification as well as leverages best-in-class tools. We were extremely satisfied with the results achieved with IC Compiler and Pilot on our complex design."
--Mogens Balsby,
Director of IC Design

Tessera Success Story
"Synopsys Professional Services consultants brought practical, important verification expertise to our design team. They not only helped us meet the scheduled delivery of a critical design block, but they also developed and deployed a robust verification flow in the process."
--Hari Chakravarthula,
Director Systems Engineering, Tessera

Teradici Success Story
“We received first samples in early December, and immediately had critical high-speed interconnect IP and processor cores running successfully. Within another week, our most complex logic was fully operational. Having access to Synopsys’ industry leading tools, IP, and services enabled Teradici to achieve first silicon success.”
-- Maher Fahmi, VP Silicon Engineering

ITRI Success Story
“Our latest chip was developed with very challenging power optimization goals and targeting a new process node. Synopsys consultants worked closely with us to not only deliver the tapeout under a very tight schedule, but to also ensure advanced methodologies were built into our design flow. We are now recommending this flow to our 90 nanometer customers.”
-- Dr. David Chang, Deputy General Director, SoC Technology Center/ITRI

Tundra Success Story
“Our CAD team was able to deploy the Pilot Design Environment to a new site and start running the main flow steps almost immediately. Methodologies associated with designing advanced chips that take years to learn and understand were incorporated into Pilot.”
-- Benny Chang, VP of Engineering, Tundra

CYIT Success Story
“As we planned this project, we wanted to work with the best technology and the best design services partner. We selected Synopsys’ Discovery Verification tools and Synopsys Professional Services and were rewarded with a successful chip tapeout and new methodologies that enhanced our design flow for our future designs.”
-- Professor Zhen Jianhong, General Manager, CYIT

M-Systems
“Building in-house physical design capability for a COT manufacturing model was accomplished in just 3 months with the help of Synopsys Professional Services. Functional prototypes from first silicon put us well on the way to meet our important customer deliveries.”
-- Michael Mostovoy, Director of ASIC Department, M-Systems.

CSR
“Synopsys Professional Services helped us optimize our design flow and immediately realize the benefits of faster turn-around time on real designs.”
-- Robert Young, Digital Design Manager, CSR.

Datang Micro Electronics
“Without the collaboration between Synopsys Professional Services and Datang, it would have taken extra time to tape out the COMIP chip.”
-- Yang Yanhui, CTO of Datang Micro Electronics.

Sony Professional Solutions Network Company
"Vigent’ represented a leap in design complexity for video cameras. To help Sony make the leap, Synopsys Professional Services supported two critical tape-outs for us. This support included design environment development, training in system-level modeling, and design assistance for specification, RTL verification and hierarchical ASIC handoff."
-- Shingo Shimazaki, Project Manager

picoChip
"Using Synopsys tools entirely with Synopsys Professional Services was the fastest way to get this powerful architecture to silicon, and then to customers."
-- Will Robbins, Design Director

Leadtek
"We followed the Synopsys design flow, and the chip is passing tests without any problems. We will use Synopsys Professional Services and their RTL design methodology for our future chips."
--Dr. Frank Cheng, Deputy Chief Engineer

Cray Inc.
"We didn’t know such a solution was possible until we worked with Synopsys Professional Services."
--Mike Steinberger, Circuits Manager

Aristos Logic
"We radically expedited the layout cycle time by going to Synopsys. Because of the shorter cycle time, we managed to get the design wins. We are in designs that may have gone to our competition if we weren't there at the right time."
--Sanjay Mathur, Vice President Engineering

NetContinuum
"Getting first-pass chips that are shippable probably gained us more than a quarter. Synopsys Professional Services played a critical role in this achievement."
--Peter Roman, Co-founder and Vice President of Engineering

Corrent Corporation
"Synopsys Professional Services was very responsive to the startup environment. They were a major contributor to our success."
--Satish Anand, Chief Technical Officer and Co-founder

Brecis Communications
"As a new generation of network processor, our Multi-Service Processor is an extremely complex chip. Such chips are not fully functional in first silicon, yet working with the Synopsys design services team, we were able to develop and deliver a fully functional chip on first silicon -- an extremely important event for a startup such as ours."
--George Alexy, CEO and President

Nokia Networks
"Being able to utilize an SoC development in cooperation with a company like Synopsys-one that has already demonstrated their ability to deliver the expertise we need-allows us the freedom to concentrate our core team on the system-level development of the industry's next generation of wireless products."
--Juha Salmelin, Head of Technology Development and Platforms

Vacon Plc
"Our products have long life cycles, so it may be two or more years between our ASIC projects. During that time the technology and methodology advance. It is much easier and cost-effective for us to collaborate with a design house that is familiar with the current state of the art than to try to maintain that expertise in house for projects that may occur months or even years apart."
---Jorma Vesti, Senior Development Engineer

Motorola MCORE Technology Center
"Synopsys helped us move to a flexible synthesis-centric design process that emphasized automation, reuse and predictability."
--Charles Studor, Senior Member Technical Staff, Project Leader for MMC2107

Theseus Logic, Inc.
"Synopsys did a first-class job in a very short period of time. Synopsys was key in meeting a time-to market goal that was 60 to 70 percent of a normal design cycle. Synopsys not only met the time-to-market goal, but also improved overall product quality and design methodology simultaneously."
--Dennis Ferguson, Director of Programs

DMC Stratex Networks
"We needed a partner to complement our background. The partner needed to have SoC knowledge and be capable of absorbing quickly our years of experience in the key relations, interactions and tradeoffs between the modem core, the wireless subsystem and other subsystems in the product."
--Dr. Carlos Belfiore, Senior Director of Signal Processing Engineering

ND Satcom (Nortel Dasa)
"Synopsys saved us money because their unique skills in advanced DSP enable rapid development. They produced the new chip in a very short time and met our time-to-market goal."
--Franz Thaller, Manager, Satellite Access Development Group

Infineon Technologies AG (C166)
"The most exciting part of the project was how well the teams from two big companies, spread out in many locations, worked together. I have never seen cross-functional and cross-company teams work together so well. I learned a lot from the Synopsys team about how to treat your customer."
--Burkhard Hartmann, Director of Application and Reuse Services, Munich, Germany

CCL/ITRI
"The Synopsys team worked very hard. They focused on our project, delivered on time, and made it work. We were impressed by their excellent communications and project management skills, and their expertise in ATM design and RTL coding. We will continue to use Synopsys."
--Eric Chen, CCL Department Manager, N200 Transmission Systems

Agilent
"For this project, Synopsys' greatest strength was their FPGA design experience, including their tools and macros. They helped us solve a pin-count problem with a very intelligent and elegant solution using Synopsys' pre-written code and multiplexing the bus to run at two-to-four times the normal speed. I liked that solution."
--Tilmann Wendel, R&D Project Manager for Boeblingen

ContextVision
"The main objective was to get the system to run faster, so doctors wouldn't have to sit and wait for results. Now we have new possibilities, such as running our system on ultrasound images. Synopsys helped us create a chip that will let us expand our business."
--Hans Norberg, Project Manager for Hardware Development

Infineon Technologies AG
"The model actually suited our needs better than the real processor because it simulates faster. Using the model probably saved us three months."
--Franz-Josef Schaefer, Design Manager

Nortel Ireland (NITEC)
"Telecommunications components and systems have become increasingly complex. The Synopsys SDH and SONET Telecommunications Workbenches give us great visibility into our product designs and functions through board-level simulation. Eventually all boards with FPGAs and ASICs will be designed this way, using board-level simulation, because they are becoming too complex to be developed using a scope or logic analyzer."
--Jim Whiteside, NITEC Advisor to the Board-Level Simulation Group

Lucent Technologies
"The Synopsys SONET Workbench has become the standard tool in our verification flow. It makes sense to take advantage of tools from a company whose core expertise is in tool development, rather than duplicate that effort in creating and supporting our own."
--Jim Viehl, Technical Manager

Lucent Technologies
"The three different versions of the APC chip were scheduled six months apart. Synopsys' expertise in the most advanced tools and processes helped us meet all three of our deadlines."
--Silvio Fernandez, Technical Manager in the Bell Labs, Advanced Technologies Division of Lucent

Texas Instruments - Storage Products
"We chose Synopsys for assistance because they are the market leader in digital systems and for their expertise in synthesis processes, synthesis algorithms, and timing analysis for large digital CMOS designs."
-- Mark McQuilkin, Mixed Signal Computing Systems Manager

STMicroelectronics
"It would have taken us months to develop our new testing environment in-house. With Synopsys' help, it took a matter of weeks, and we have a valuable additional service to offer our customers." --Glenn Martini, Director of North American Operations for the Digital and Analog Semicustom Division

Netro Corporation
"ASIC development requires a tremendous infrastructure that includes people, tools, and experience. Going from FPGAs to ASICs is a huge step and very difficult for a small company like Netro. Synopsys made it easier. They helped us make that step."
--Steve Patterson, Director of Engineering

Sony Semiconductor Business Division
"As complex system-on-a-chip applications grow, we need the ability to answer market challenges on all fronts at the same time, including cost, complexity, features, and time-to-market. Our partnership with Synopsys to develop a flexible verification environment has enhanced our ability to produce complex, high-quality ASICs faster and at lower cost."
--Dr. Taner Ozcelik, Director of Engineering for Audio/Video Data Products