SAN FRANCISCO—EDA and IP vendor Synopsys Inc said Tuesday (May 8) it completed the acquisition of RSoft Design Group Inc, a provider of photonics design and simulation software headquartered in Ossining, NY. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Synopsys (Mountain View, CA) said the combination of its imaging and illumination design products and RSoft's products would extend the company's platform to provide a more complete set of optical solutions to current customers and support new technologies, applications, and markets as they emerge. Synopsys said the acquisition was a "natural extension" of its entry into the optics market that began with its 2010 acquisition of Optical Research Associates.
"Synopsys' strategy is two-fold: continued leadership in EDA while expanding our total addressable market into adjacent technologies, including optical design," said Howard Ko, senior vice president and general manager of Synopsys' Silicon Engineering Group, in a statement.
Ko said the addition of RSoft's products would expand Synopsys' product line in both the optical and adjacent photonic markets.
"RSoft's products also complement our TCAD Sentaurus portfolio by providing a number of capabilities that allow us to extend our offering into other photonic areas such as optical waveguide modeling," Ko said. "This and many other capabilities will create strong synergies with Synopsys technology that will help us enable new opportunities with key customers."
RSoft, founded into 1990, markets a component design suite, a system simulation tool, and a network modeling tool.
RSoft's software is used to design and optimize optical telecommunications components, as well as in the design and simulation of complete optical telecommunication systems and networks. In semiconductor manufacturing, RSoft's software is used to design and optimize nanolithography components to enable faster and lower-power processors. RSoft's software can also be used to model nano-scale optical structures that enhance the light extraction efficiency of applications such as LED structures, displays, and solar cells, as well as enable increased optical data storage capacity, Synopsys said.
This article originally appeared on EE Times.
