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News Release from: Synopsys
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 03 October 2007
Acquisition harnesses mixed-signal
verification
Sandwork's products, combined with Synopsys' industry leading Discovery AMS solution, deliver a comprehensive environment for verification and debug.
Synopsys has acquired Sandwork Design, a privately held California-based provider of analogue and mixed-signal (AMS) verification solutions Sandwork's approach to verification enables engineers to efficiently analyse and debug complex AMS SoCs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Sandwork's products, combined with Synopsys' industry leading Discovery AMS solution, deliver a comprehensive environment for verification and debug.
Terms of the deal are not being disclosed.
"Debug and analysis are critical in analogue design and verification", says Paul Lo, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Synopsys AMS Group.
"Sandwork's widely deployed tools like Spice Explorer and WaveView analyser complement our existing solution, adding valuable analogue 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 Explorer, a transistor level design debugging environment, WaveView analyser a high capacity, high performance AMS waveform analyser, and SpiceCheck 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", says Dr Jack Yao, CEO of Sandwork.
"The combination of Synopsys' advanced analogue 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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