Date: 16/09/2009

Synopsys has added Sunplus to its list of customers called 'primary EDA partners'

Sunplus has signed a business agreement to establish Synopsys as its primary EDA partner. Under the new multi-year agreement, Sunplus has consolidated on Synopsys' Galaxy Implementation and Discovery Verification platforms for their chip development and design flows, and has extended their use of Synopsys DesignWare IP.

"As the complexity of our designs has escalated to meet the demands of the rapidly evolving home entertainment markets, Synopsys has proven the reliable choice to help us meet those demands through a combination of tools, IP and services," said Ying-Chih Yang, chief technology officer, Home Entertainment Business Unit of Sunplus. "Using Synopsys products and services on our leading chips enables us to improve our design efficiency and focus on commercializing technologies for easy living."

"In consumer markets as dynamic as the segments that Sunplus serves, flexibility and predictability are critical success factors in the design process and Sunplus has demonstrated both," said John Chilton, Synopsys' senior vice president of marketing and strategic development. "Looking to the future, our broadened collaboration serves two key objectives for Sunplus: it enables them to continue to deliver differentiated solutions to their customers, and at the same time advance the robustness of their internal design methodologies and flows to support the development of new products."