Synopsys was founded in 1986 by Dr. Aart J. de Geus with a team of engineers from General Electric (GE) as Optimal Solutions. The company was founded to develop and market synthesis technology that had been developed at GE’s Microelectronics Center.
Today Synopsys provides electronic design automation (EDA) software, which is used by integrated circuit (IC) designers to test design before production, and then afterwards to test the finished product.
Customers are mainly from the semiconductor and electronics manufacturing industries.
Synopsys trades publicly on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol SNPS, is #979 in the Fortune 1000, has 9,436 employees, and had $2.12 billion in revenue in 2014.
SynopsysSynopsys was founded in 1986 by Dr. Aart J. de Geus with a team of engineers from General Electric (GE) as Optimal Solutions. The company was founded to develop and market synthesis technology that had been developed at GE’s Microelectronics Center.
Today Synopsys provides electronic design automation (EDA) software, which is used by integrated circuit (IC) designers to test design before production, and then afterwards to test the finished product.
Customers are mainly from the semiconductor and electronics manufacturing industries.
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Synopsys trades publicly on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol SNPS, is #979 in the Fortune 1000, has 9,436 employees, and had $2.12 billion in revenue in 2014.
