ARM, Synopsys ties up to improve ARM based SoCs

ARM and Synopsys have signed a multi-year subscription agreement that expands Synopsys’ access to a broad range of ARM intellectual property (IP)and related technologies to enable optimization of Synopsys tools and methodologies for ARM-based system-on-chips (SoCs). Through this agreement, Synopsys has pre-production access to ARM Cortex processors for the ARMv8-A and ARMv7-A architectures, ARM Mali graphics processors, ARM CoreLink system IP, ARM Artisan physical IP, and ARM POPIP for implementation acceleration.

This new agreement allows Synopsys to further optimize its design flows and tools for ARM-based SoCs, enabling designers to meet their power, performance and area goals, while reducing cost and time-to-market.

“We have collaborated extensively with Synopsys for more than 20 years to ensure our mutual customers can get innovative products to market quickly and still meet their performance, power and area targets,” said Pete Hutton, executive vice president and president of product groups, ARM. “With Synopsys’ early access to our latest IP and our ongoing close collaboration, we can provide our customers solutions that work effectively together as they design, implement and verify their SoCs.”

With this agreement, Synopsys can develop and distribute optimized Synopsys tool scripts to ARM partners and deliver training on the use of Synopsys tools and flows with the ARM IP. Building on the foundation of the companies’ previous collaborations, which have delivered solutions that span implementation, verification, system architecture design and software development, this new agreement allows the companies to extend these results to benefit designers using the latest ARM IP.

Designers benefit not only from these design solutions, but also Synopsys’ field expertise and Core Optimization Services developed over many years of enabling ARM-based design success.