Synopsys has completed the acquisition of Extreme DA, the California-based developer of chip manufacturing yield improvement software.
The deal will add to the company's static timing analysis and multicore software development.
"The combination of Synopsys and Extreme DA's technological capabilities and team expertise will help enable Synopsys to deliver best-in-class tools that address the scalability, convergence and throughput needs of our customers' massive designs," said Antun Domic, senior v-p and general manager of Synopsys' Implementation Group.
The terms of the acquisition, which closed October 6, have not been disclosed.
Synopsys timing analysis tool is called PrimeTime and last year it introduced PrimeTime HyperScale technology, enabling static timing analysis (STA) to scale beyond 500 million instances.
Extreme DA's claim to fame was the first commercial statistical static timing analysis (SSTA) tool suite, and for later introducing the ability to statistically model on-chip variation without the need for expensive cell library characterisation.
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