Synopsys starts this year’s Design Automation Conference with a series of product announcements that individually represent incremental advances on some existing back-end tools, but taken together-especially in light of recent releases from other vendors-suggest an important shift in direction for the practice of SoC design. In all, the company announced enhancements to four products: PrimeTime, Liberty NCX, Nanotime, and Raphael.

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