Synopsys' IC Compiler II Accelerates Silicon Validation of Imagination's Ground-breaking PowerVR® Ray Tracing IP

Imagination's IMGworks Platform IP Group Leverages Long Standing Collaboration with Synopsys to Make Full Use of IC Compiler II's Advanced Capabilities

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jun. 15, 2015 – 

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that Imagination Technologies has successfully used IC Compiler™ II place and route solution as part of the design flow used to tape out its latest PowerVR Wizard ray tracing graphics processor test silicon, based on Imagination's reference design.

The long-standing strategic collaboration between Synopsys and Imagination has played a key role in the development of IC Compiler II, and its deployment within Imagination. Imagination's IMGworks Platform IP Group has already successfully used IC Compiler II as part of the design flow for their leading-edge PowerVR Rogue family of industry-leading GPU IP cores, seeing a substantial acceleration in its design-planning flow compared to the previous production environment.

"Our close collaboration with Synopsys since the early release of IC Compiler II has had a significant impact on how we are developing and delivering our Design Optimization Kits for our latest PowerVR, MIPS and Ensigma IP cores," said Mark Dunn, EVP of the IMGworks Platform IP Group at Imagination. "Using IC Compiler II is enabling us to offer more effective design flows and services to help our mutual customers designing complex SoCs with our broad IP portfolio."

Launched last year, IC Compiler II is the successor to IC Compiler, the industry's leading place and route solution for advanced design across both established and emerging nodes. IC Compiler II is a modern place and route system designed and built from the ground up for speed to deliver an overall 10X improvement in designer throughput and productivity.  IC Compiler II was built to deliver a major leap forward in physical design throughput and productivity across all process nodes. Its natively architected multi-everything infrastructure and multicore technology enables ultra-high-capacity design planning capabilities and also serves as a scalable foundation for its unique, patented clocking technology and advanced global, analytical design closure techniques which deliver industry leading quality-of-results and fastest time to market. With high levels of automation, fast user feedback, incremental and convergent engines, IC Compiler II helps manage the many complexities of design planning and implementation. Through these industry-first innovations, IC Compiler II is offering a world of new opportunities by delivering 5X faster runtime along with half the iterations required to achieve the target performance, together proving  groundbreaking 10X increase in design throughput.

"Imagination Technologies has been a key partner for Synopsys from the early release of IC Compiler II," said Bijan Kiani, vice president for the Design Group at Synopsys, Inc. "Our partners and mutual customers are benefitting from the game-changing aspects of IC Compiler II, not only to enhance their internal flows but also to deliver highly differentiated products to the market, demonstrating the transformational nature of this product."

About Synopsys, Inc.

Synopsys, Inc. is the world leader in electronic design automation (EDA), supplying the global electronics market with the software, intellectual property (IP) and services used in semiconductor design and manufacturing. Synopsys comprehensive, integrated portfolio of implementation, verification, IP, manufacturing and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions helps address the key challenges designers and manufacturers face today, such as power and yield management, software-to-silicon verification and time-to-results. These technology-leading solutions help give Synopsys customers a competitive edge in bringing the best products to market quickly while reducing costs and schedule risk. Synopsys is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has more than 60 offices located throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India.

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