Synopsys to Enable New Levels of Insight into SoC Designs and Systems with Industry's First Silicon Lifecycle Management Platform

Data-Analytics-Driven Platform Enables Critical Improvement in Performance, Reliability, Functional Safety and Security

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 12, 2020 -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today, in a move that expands its industry leadership throughout the design lifecycle, unveiled its Silicon Lifecycle Management (SLM) platform, the industry's first data-analytics-driven approach to optimizing SoCs from the design phase through to end-user deployment. The SLM platform, which is tightly coupled with Synopsys' market-leading Fusion Design Platform, will provide visibility into critical performance, reliability and security issues for the entirety of a chip's lifespan. It will enable new levels of insights for both SoC teams and their customers and provide the ability to optimize operational activities at each stage of the device and system lifecycles.

"Like so many other business domains today, the semiconductor industry now has the opportunity to further leverage empirical data about its products and technologies in order to achieve efficiencies across the electronics value chain, including at the system-level deployment stage," said Sassine Ghazi, chief operating officer of Synopsys. "Building on our core expertise in IC design, our SLM platform provides a game-changing set of optimization capabilities that extend throughout the entire lifecycle of IC design, production and deployment."

The growing complexity of today's electronics systems is making quality and reliability increasingly difficult to achieve. This, coupled with little tolerance for performance degradation of any kind and the need to meet functional safety and security requirements, means that a new approach is needed to address how silicon-based systems are developed, operated and maintained. The potential gains and cost savings in key applications like data centers and networking from improvements in performance and power could be measured in the billions of dollars. These savings can be achieved by properly managing each phase of a chip's and system's lifecycle from development through deployment to ensure optimized results throughout.

"Addressing critical chip performance and reliability issues is a multi-billion dollar issue that doesn't stop at tape out. It requires a new way of looking at the entirety of how an IC is designed, built and used. Providing access to device data throughout the entire chip life span, and enabling on-going 'in life' feedback and optimization through specialized analytics will allow a more efficient and effective way to address the semiconductor-related quality and security challenges system companies face in all industries," said Richard Wawrzyniak, Principal Market Analyst: ASIC & SoC, Semico Research Corp.

The Synopsys SLM platform, launched today and with a full roadmap of innovation over the next two years, is based on two underlying principles: gather as much useful data about each chip as possible and analyze that data throughout its entire lifecycle to gain actionable insights into improving chip and system related activities. The first principle is achieved by expanding upon the data already available from test and product engineering with deep visibility into each chip's operation through monitors and sensors that are embedded throughout each chip and measure targeted activities across a wide set of contexts and conditions. The second SLM platform principle is to apply targeted analytics engines that operate on available chip data to enable optimizations at each stage of the semiconductor lifecycle, starting with design implementation, and progressing through manufacturing, production test, bring-up and culminating with in-field operation.

To hear more about the Synopsys SLM platform, attend the Silicon Lifecycle Management track at the Digital Design Technology Symposium to be held virtually on Wednesday, Oct. 14. More details about the Synopsys SLM platform can also be found here.

About Synopsys

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is the Silicon to Software™ partner for innovative companies developing the electronic products and software applications we rely on every day. As the world's 15th largest software company, Synopsys has a long history of being a global leader in electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP and is also growing its leadership in software security and quality solutions. Whether you're a system-on-chip (SoC) designer creating advanced semiconductors, or a software developer writing applications that require the highest security and quality, Synopsys has the solutions needed to deliver innovative, high-quality, secure products. Learn more at www.synopsys.com.