"We have been successfully collaborating with Prolific for a number of years," said Simon Segars, EVP and GM, Physical IP Division, ARM. "The technology and expertise that will come with this acquisition will expand our capabilities to accelerate ecosystem adoption of advanced process nodes at 20nm and below."
Prolific was founded by Dr. Paul de Dood in 1995, having previously managed the Library and Full-Chip Integration Group for the Sun Microsystems UltraSparc and UltraSparc-II product lines. The company's web site says it has been profitable every year of its existence
Prolific's tools work with those from Synopsys, Cadence, Mentor, and Magma. Products include ProGenesis, ProTiming (an add-on for Synopsys PrimeTime), ProPower (an add-on for ProTiming) and ProDFMOptimizer.
Prolific's customers include companies like AMD, NEC, Atmel, and Broadcom.
