Aerospace & Government Solutions

Synopsys automates semiconductor development for government and aerospace customers who need to build mission-critical systems in extreme environments. This includes space, sea, deserts, as well as extreme low and high temperatures.

Synopsys synthesis, verification and modeling tools have capabilities to develop up to the highest quality and security for extreme environments (See Microchip RT FPGA case study). Synopsys IP is also designed to meet the exacting standards of automotive and can be extended to aerospace. Finally, the Synopsys Design Services team can develop for a variety of environments, including space.

Synopsys automates the design of secure, safe and reliable silicon devices. Our fault-tolerant tools, flows, methodology, and IP originally developed for automotive functional safety and low power are being extended to meet the challenges of aerospace and defense. This is possible because random faults like safety and radiation resistance and targeted faults like security can have a common technology for prevention and detection.

An example, Synopsys is the Prime Contractor for the DARPA Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon Program that aims to create a secure design and verification flow. Synopsys also has a full suite of security IP, from secure boot to secure interfaces. 

Environmental concerns and small form factors are key challenges for government, aerospace, and defense applications. Their advanced systems demand high performance in small spaces and extreme environments. To meet these needs, Synopsys developed a solution for 3D heterogeneous integration and partnered with Ansys to simulate the design in its intended environment.

Synopsys' 3D heterogeneous integration, multi-die package, signoff analysis, and Ansys simulation system successfully improve thermal-mechanical dissipation and stress for devices that operate in the sea, desert, or space.

A&D systems need to process massive amounts of data quickly for real-time analysis and decisions in low SWaP environments. Synopsys ARC® Processors, including the ARC VPX Digital Signal Processors and NPX Neural Processors, meet intense computing requirements with low power consumption and software program flexibility.

Our ARC VPX DSP Family is primed for front-end processing of sensor data with integer and floating-point data types. The NPX Family is optimized for performance, power, and area, including CNN model and Transformer graph acceleration. The MetaWare toolchain is simple to use and compatible with 3^rd party ecosystem partners such as Matlab, Tensorflow and ONNX.  

Today’s systems need digital before physical representation to reduce cost, time and complexity while improving productivity and scalability. Synopsys digital twin users can optimize SWaP and pre-certify for security or safety. Extending our leadership in automotive to A&G, Synopsys has model fidelity, simulation performance and scalability as well as engines to enable a CI/CD regression solution and user productivity.

Synopsys’ technology engines, from sensors to SoCs and Line Replaceable Units, can simulate hardware and software. Synopsys also has services expertise in augmented reality solutions for another element in your quest for digital transformation.

Synopsys has excecuted government research programs as a prime contractor for partners like DARPA and IARPA on the AISS, POSH and SuperTools programs. We have also collaborated with industry leaders on programs such as RAMP.  Synopsys has worked closely with NASA on the James Webb Space Telescope, the Hubble Telescope, LEO, and deep space missions.

Synopsys aligns our technical roadmaps with key government organizations to enable early demostration and deployment of government-funded and Synopsys IRAD capabilities. We are a US DoD workforce development partner through the Purdue University CSME program.