Sponsors

Synopsys extends a sincere thank you to our SNUG Sponsors worldwide. Connecting with users at each local conference, our sponsors showcase their products and how they integrate with Synopsys solutions. Please visit the SNUG Proceedings Library to see how engineers around the world are using a blend of Synopsys and SNUG Sponsor technologies to solve their most difficult design challenges.

PLATINUM SPONSORS

ARM
ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM’s comprehensive product offering includes 32-bit RISC microprocessors, graphics processors, enabling software, cell libraries, embedded memories, high-speed connectivity products, peripherals and development tools. Combined with comprehensive design services, training, support and maintenance, and the company’s broad Partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES
GLOBALFOUNDRIES is the world’s first full-service semiconductor foundry with a truly global manufacturing and technology footprint. Launched in March 2009 through a partnership between AMD [NYSE: AMD] and the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), GLOBALFOUNDRIES provides a unique combination of advanced technology, manufacturing excellence and global operations. With the integration of Chartered in January 2010, GLOBALFOUNDRIES significantly expanded its capacity and ability to provide best-in-class foundry services from mainstream to the leading edge. GLOBALFOUNDRIES is headquartered in Silicon Valley with manufacturing operations in Singapore, Germany, and a new leading-edge fab under construction in Saratoga County, New York. Find out more at http://www.globalfoundries.com/

Samsung
Samsung’s foundry business is dedicated to support fabless and IDM semiconductor companies to achieve market success with advanced IC designs. As part of Samsung Electronics’ Semiconductor Business, the world leader in semiconductor manufacturing, Samsung Foundry has deep expertise in advanced process technologies, design technologies, as well as a long, proven track record in high-volume manufacturing. For more information, please visit http://www.samsung.com.

TSMC
TSMC is the world’s largest dedicated semiconductor foundry, providing the industry’s leading process technology and the foundry’s largest portfolio of process-proven libraries, IP, design tools and reference flows. The Company’s total managed capacity in 2008 is to exceed nine million (8-inch equivalent) wafers, including capacity from two advanced 12-inch Gigafabs, four eight-inch fabs, one six-inch fab, as well as TSMC’s wholly owned subsidiaries, WaferTech and TSMC (Shanghai), and its joint venture fab, SSMC. TSMC is the first foundry to provide 40nm production capabilities. Its corporate headquarters are in Hsinchu, Taiwan. For more information about TSMC please see http://www.tsmc.com.

GOLD SPONSORS

HP
As a world-leading information technology company, HP applies new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology. Our focus is to continuously improve the way our customers live and work through technology products and services, form the individual consumer to the largest enterprise. More information can be found at http://www.hp.com.

IBM
IBM develops and manufactures semiconductor technology and products used in IBM systems and by leading IT, consumer and communications companies worldwide. End-to-end integration — from design to manufacturing to characterization and test — gives IBM the unique ability to leverage process insights for superior modeling and proven results in hardware. Find out more at http://www.ibm.com.

Xilinx

Xilinx is the world’s leading provider of programmable platforms, with $1.7B in revenues in 2009 and more than 50 percent market share in the programmable logic device (PLD) segment of the semiconductor industry.

Xilinx programmable chips are the innovation platform of choice for today’s leading companies for the design of tens of thousands of products. Due to their inherent flexibility, Xilinx Targeted Design Platforms – silicon, software, IP, evaluation kits and reference designs – are used by 20,000 customers to drastically reduce time-to-market in a variety of industries, including aerospace and defense, automotive, consumer, industrial, medical, scientific, wired and wireless communications. See http://www.xilinx.com.

Zuken
Zuken is a global provider of leading-edge software and consulting services for electrical and electronic design and manufacturing. Founded in1976, Zuken has the longest track record of technological innovation and financial stability in the electronic design automation (EDA) software industry. The company's extensive experience, technological expertise and agility, combine to create world-class software solutions. Zuken's transparent working practices and integrity in all aspects of business produce long-lasting and successful customer partnerships that make Zuken a reliable long-term business partner. For more information about the company and its products, visit http://www.zuken.com

SILVER SPONSORS

Agilent Technologies
Agilent’s solutions for digital applications are driven and supported by Agilent experts who are involved in various international standard committees. We call it the Agilent Digital Test Standards Program. Our experts are active in the Joint Electronic Devices Engineering Council (JEDEC), PCI-SIG®, Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA), Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO), Serial Attached SCSI (T10), USB-Implementers Forum (USB-IF), Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) Alliance, Ethernet standards (IEEE 802.3), Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF), and many others. Our involvement in these standards groups and their related workshops, plugfests, and seminars enable Agilent to bring the right solutions to the market when our customers need them. Find out more at http://www.agilent.com.

Altera

Altera Corporation is the pioneer of programmable logic solutions, enabling system and semiconductor companies to rapidly and cost-effectively innovate, differentiate, and win in their markets. Altera offers FPGAs, CPLDs, and ASICs in combination with software tools, intellectual property, and customer support to provide high-value custom logic solutions to customers worldwide. Find out more at http://www.altera.com.

Ansys

ANSYS develops and markets engineering simulation software and technologies widely used by engineers, designers, researchers across a broad spectrum of industries. The Company focuses on the development of open and flexible solutions that enable users to analyze designs directly on the desktop, providing a common platform for fast, efficient and cost-conscious product development, from design concept to final-stage testing and validation. Headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., ANSYS, Inc. and its subsidiaries employ over 1,600 people and distribute ANSYS products through a network of channel partners in over 40 countries. Visit http://www.ansys.com for more information.

Dassault Systèmes

In the semiconductor industry, demands for leading-edge products at commodity prices have forced industry leaders to change their innovation process. To be among the leaders in your space, you must adopt collaborative design strategies that best leverage distributed design teams, packaged IP from both internal and external sources, hierarchical design methodologies and cross-functional team communication.

Advanced PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) solutions from Dassault Systèmes enable companies to introduce new products, manage change and streamline their processes more effectively – from idea generation to requirements validation, including product portfolio management visibility, collaborative IC and IP development, product configurability, global sourcing, production, change management and sign-off. http://www.3ds.com/solutions/high-tech-electronics/semiconductor/

Dell

Dell Inc. is one of the world’s leading providers of high performance products and services for distributed and compute intensive environments. At the core of Dell's solution stacks is choice. Dell solutions enable you with the power to do more, integrating the latest advances in core technologies and delivering the right set of interface to archive tools required to support your most demanding applications and complex computations. Dell supports its building block model through rigorous in-house testing to provide a complete solution that just works. When it comes to architecting your performance environment, the Dell directive is simple: provide best-in-class quality, value and support. For more information, please visit http://www.dell.com.

Doulos

Doulos is the global leader for the development and delivery of world class training solutions for engineers creating the world's electronic products. Fully independent, Doulos sets the industry standard for the highest quality training programs for design and verification engineers implementing complex SoC and FPGA designs.

Doulos training programs cover the needs of hardware designers, embedded software developers and system design and verification specialists, including courses for C, C++, Embedded Linux, UML, SystemC^TM, Verilog®, SystemVerilog, VHDL and ARM-based design. For over 20 years Doulos has provided 'service through excellence', contributing to the success of more than 700 companies across 35 countries. The natural partner for leading tool and technology companies, Doulos schedules classes across the U.S. and Europe and delivers in-house training programs world-wide. For more information, visit http://www.doulos.com.

SMIC

SMIC is a pure-play IC foundry that provides wafer fabrication of 200-millimeter (mm) and 300 mm at 0.35-micron (um) to 45/40-nanometer (nm). As one of the top foundries in the world, SMIC is strategically located in China, home to a fast growing electronics market, and vast and stable resources such as human capital, land, water and power supply. SMIC provides customers with a seamless flow of services that include mask making, wafer probing, bumping (partnered with Siltech), IP development service and backend design service (partnered with Brite Semiconductor). SMIC also offers assembly and final testing through a strong network of established partners. For more information, please visit http://www.smics.com.

TowerJazz

Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ: TSEM, TASE: TSEM), the global specialty foundry leader and its fully owned U.S. subsidiary Jazz Semiconductor, operate collectively under the brand name TowerJazz, manufacturing integrated circuits with geometries ranging from 1.0 to 0.13-micron. TowerJazz provides industry leading design enablement tools to allow complex designs to be achieved quickly and more accurately and offers a broad range of customizable process technologies including SiGe, BiCMOS, Mixed-Signal and RFCMOS, CMOS Image Sensor, Power Management, and Non-Volatile Memory as well as MEMS capabilities. To provide world-class customer service, TowerJazz maintains two manufacturing facilities in Israel and one in the U.S. For more information, please visit http://www.towerjazz.com.