ARM and Synopsys have signed an expanded multi-year agreement that extends ARM’s access to Synopsys’ EDA technology. As part of the agreement ARM will provide Synopsys with access to the ARM Cortex-A15 processor to maximise performance and energy efficiency of SoCs built by ARM’s partners using this advanced ARM processor and Synopsys tools. Both agreements build upon a long history of partnership between the two companies, including ARM’s use of Synopsys EDA tools in the design of the ARM Cortex-A processor family and the experience gained supporting leading ARM Cortex licensees.
Customer design teams are expected to benefit from the availability of Synopsys tools which are optimised to work with the ARM Cortex-A15 processor. By providing designers with improved tools to create optimised SoCs, ARM and Synopsys will enable mutual customers to get differentiated products to market more quickly and with lower risk.
With SoC designers are under constant pressure to deliver designs quickly the agreement between ARM and Synopsys is designed to enable ARM Cortex-A15 processor licensees to quickly achieve more effective results.
“Partnership has always been at the heart of the ARM business model. The new agreement with Synopsys builds on our successful history of jointly delivering leading solutions to the world’s most advanced semiconductor companies,” said Mike Muller, Chief Technical Officer, ARM. “To be successful in the rapidly growing mobile internet space, semiconductor companies need to deliver much higher levels of performance within tight power constraints and in even shorter periods of time. This agreement allows customer design teams to benefit from the experience gained by Synopsys and ARM during initial development and with licensees of the ARM Cortex-A15 processor.”
According to Antun Domic, Senior VP and General Manager of the Implementation Group of Synopsys, “Companies have already benefited from many ARM-Synopsys collaborations, including low power methodology and reference implementation methodologies. Building on our relationship, this agreement will help accelerate the next generation of differentiated ARM-powered products.”
