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Synopsys, Inc., an American company, is the leading company by sales in the Electronic Design Automation industry. Synopsys' first and best-known product is Design Compiler, a logic-synthesis tool. Synopsys offers a wide range of other products used in the design of an application-specific integrated circuit. Products include logic synthesis, behavioral synthesis, place and route, static timing analysis, formal verification, HDL SystemC, SystemVerilog/Verilog, VHDL simulators as well as transistor-level circuit simulation. The simulators include development and debugging environments which assist in the design of the logic for chips and computer systems..

1994: acquired Cadis, Aachen, Germany. Through this acquisition Synopsys got the communication systems and DSP design tool suit named COSSAP. COSSAP stood for Communication System Simulation and Application Processor. Synopsys carried out various communication predominantly wireless modems design and consulting activities using this tool and later the evolved new tool Co-centric System Studio. The Cadis group was a spin-off development initiative from Institute for Integrated Signal Processing Systems ISS, RWTH Aachen, spearheaded by Professor Heinrich Meyr and Professor Gerd Ascheid. COSSAP was a competing product to SPW from Cadence (now maintained and enhanced by Coware). Synopsys stopped support on COSSAP since 2003 and is now promoting the enhanced tool Cocentric System Studio.