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Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. is an American software company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 1986, supplying electronic design automation software, semiconductor IP, and, since 2025, Ansys simulation software.
Synopsys HSPICE
Synopsys HSPICE is a commercial SPICE circuit simulator, originally commercialized by Meta-Software in the 1980s and now sold by Synopsys as PrimeSim HSPICE, predicting integrated circuit behavior before manufacturing.
Timing closure
Timing closure is the EDA process of driving an integrated-circuit design until all setup and hold timing checks pass across every required analysis view before tape-out.
Tinkercad
Tinkercad is a free, browser-based 3D design, electronics, and coding tool from Autodesk for beginners, reported to have 100 million users as of November 2025.
Transient thermal analysis
Transient thermal analysis is an engineering simulation method that computes temperature as a function of position and time under time-varying heat loads, using the heat equation.
VCS (simulator)
VCS, short for Verilog Compiled Simulator, is a Synopsys simulator that compiles Verilog, SystemVerilog, and VHDL designs and testbenches into a native executable to verify chips before manufacturing.
Veloce
Veloce is a hardware-assisted verification platform sold by Siemens, launched by Mentor Graphics in 2007, which verifies large integrated circuit and SoC designs via hardware emulation and prototyping.
Vericut
Vericut is CNC simulation, verification, and optimization software developed by CGTech of Irvine, California, first released in 1988. It simulates G-code on a virtual machine tool to catch errors and collisions before machining.
Verilog to Routing
Verilog to Routing (VTR) is an open-source computer-aided design flow for field-programmable gate array research that turns Verilog circuits into placed, routed, timing-analyzed implementations, led from the University of Toronto.
Walden Clark Rhines
Walden Clark Rhines, known as Wally Rhines, is an American semiconductor executive who led Mentor Graphics for over 23 years and became Silvaco's CEO in 2025.
Windchill
Windchill is a product lifecycle management software platform created by PTC, first released in 1998, that helps manufacturers manage product data, bills of materials, and change processes.