PARIS — EDA and IP vendor Synopsys Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) said it has extended its topographical technology in Design Compiler 2010 to produce physical guidance to its place-and-route solution, ...

Based in the way in which my phone has been ringing off the hook over the last couple of weeks, all I can say is that the folks at Synopsys appear to have been working their little cotton socks off.

Co-design, that is, designing software and hardware simultaneously, is one way of attempting to meet the computing-power needs of today’s artificial intelligence applications. Compilers, which ...