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Cadence and Siemens EDA.[26][27]In August 2023, Synopsys named COO Sassine Ghazi as CEO. Ghazi succeeded Aart de Geus in January 2024, with de Geus transitioning to the role of executive chairman.[28][29]In November 2023, Synopsys launched Synopsys.ai Copilot in collaboration with Microsoft, leveraging large language models from OpenAI to accelerate the process of semiconductor chip design.[30]In January 2024, Synopsys announced its intention to acquire engineering software company Ansys for $35 billion, in a move that would expand Synopsys' prominence in simulation software and systems design for chip designers, automobiles, airplanes.[31] The companies have had a research and development partnership since 2017.[29][32]In September 2024, Synopsys announced it would sell its optical systems division to Keysight Technologies to address regulatory concerns related to its proposed acquisition of Ansys.[33]In October 2024, the private equity firms Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners completed the acquisition of the Synopsys Software Integrity Group (SIG) to reestablish Black Duck Software as an independent standalone application security company; the transaction, first announced in May 2024, was valued at up to $2.1 billion, including $475 million in cash.[34]Mergers and acquisitions[edit]Synopsys has made some silicon and design verification acquisitions.[35]CoWare development was initiated by the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre in Belgium as an internal project in 1992;[36] it spun off as an independent company, supplying platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services, four years later.[37][38] CoWare was acquired by Synopsys in February 2010.[39][40]Code Dx was an American software technology company active from 2015 to 2021. The company's self-titled flagship product is a vulnerability management system that combines and correlates the results generated by a wide variety of static and dynamic testing tools. It was acquired by Synopsys in 2021.[41]"ArcSys" redirects here. Not to be confused with Arc System Works.Avanti Corporation (styled as "Avant!") was founded when several former Cadence Design Systems employees bought
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