Can someone explain what Synopsys does? One of the PM told me that, they are into marketing but their about us page and 10k says differently. I am confused. #tech #career
There are very few big players in the physical design world & Synopsis is one of them.
What do you mean by "physical"?
Chip OEMs like Intel, AMD, Nvidia, etc. design their own chips. The design of the internals of a chip is called Physical Design. Right from the transistors to the placement of logic gates. These are things related to the semiconductor industry. What role are you interviewing for?
They also own appcheck and black duck. Pretty much corralled all the enterprise security companies.
They also own a bunch of smaller companies including optics
dumbed down version: They mostly make software that are used by electrical engineers to design electronic chips.
Synopsys provides software tools for chip designers (and also foundries) to automate their chip design process. There are many stages in chip design process: design, verification, signoff, physical verification etc etc. Synopsys makes tools for each of these steps. All the chips in the world will use software from Synopsys (or its competitor Cadence) for these steps. Synthesis step would take a high level description of the chip in a Hardware Description Language (HDL) such as Verilog and convert it into an equivalent circuit consisting of gates (AND, OR, FLOPs etc). Eventually these gates need to be placed on the physical circuits and connected to each other through wires. These steps are called physical design. As simple as these steps sound, you are eventually dealing with billions of transistors and you circuit performance (aka GHz at which the processor operates or power consumption of the chip) depends on the efficiency of these algorithms. Eventually these transistors are converted into billions of polygons and that is what gets fabricated as chips. So you started with code in HDL and taped out a series of polygons for your foundry to manufacture the chip. Please note that it is a very simplistic and partial description of what Synopsys does. In terms of software, this is very complicated and has very stringent runtime and memory consumption requirements. All the chip vendors like Apple, Intel, Nvidia, Samsung, Qualcomm etc are its customers A new line of business in recent years have been the software integrity business which includes a set of security software and pure software static checkers like Coverity
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Did I miss a great deal of 0.99% from tesla ?
I know them from putting out an optical design code / CAD tool. Silicon design software, IP clearinghouse, design as a service, etc seems to be the main business
Ohk, wtf the pm said whatever is on the website, is an advertisement 😝😅