Imperas, a UK-based verification tool developer, have been bought by Synopsis in a deal closed on 12 December. Imperas founder and former CEO Simon Davidmann is pleased about it: “we are all happy here in Synopsys”, he says. Initial reports focussed on the recent move into verification and modelling IP for RISC-V fir virtual prototyping but brushed over the strong position that Imperas has developed for ARM technology.
Synopsis’ systems design group general manager Ravi Subramanian told eeNews Europe, “With the move towards software-defined products in multiple markets like automotive, consumer and HPC, both system and semiconductor companies are designing custom compute solutions optimized for specific software workloads”.
Imperas combine high-performance simulation with powerful tooling to ensure code problems can be detected and repaired efficiently, while streamlining code execution.Their system includes technology for bug discovery that can trap an issue with code running across many processor cores in a variety of operational scenarios.
