by Behshad Rejai, Director of Software Engineering, Synopsys Presented at SoftSummit 2010

1. The Fast Track to Common
Licensing Following an
M&A
Behshad Rejai
Director of Software Engineering
Synopsys

2. Agenda
• About Synopsys
• Need for Acclimation
• Licensing Acclimation Process
• Benefits
• Summary

3. About Synopsys
• An EDA Company Founded
in1986
• Large, diverse, worldwide
customer base
• ~$1.3B Annual Sales
System Design (2009)
Functional Verification • ~6,000 employees
Synthesis
y • ~ 65 offices and design
g
centers worldwide
Physical Implementation
Manufacturing Prep
Prep.
IC Test

4. What Is EDA?
Designing Designing a chip is the task of figuring out how to
Chips make the chip do what you want it to do
Today’s chips have millions of gates and have
Complexity feature sizes that are incredibly small
Without automation, this task would
Automation
be impossible
EDA EDA = Electronic Design Automation

5. Synopsys Strategy - Complete Solution
Systems
S t
Algorithms IP & Systems
Prototyping DesignWare IP Synplify FPGA
Discovery Galaxy
Design
VCS Compiler
eTime
Custom
PICE
Design Verification
MM
Designer
VM
Prime
HSP
IC
Compiler
CustomSim
IC V lid t / St RC
Validator StarRC
Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Sentaurus TCAD Proteus Litho YieldExplorer

6. Synopsys Family Tree
ArchPro MOSAID VaST ZeroSoft, Virage Logic
‘07 chip IP ‘07 Synplicity ‘08 TeraRoute’09 Systems ‘10 Inc. ‘10 ‘10
Sa d o ‘07
Sandwork 0 CHIPit ‘08 MIPS
C t 08 S Gemini Design
Ge es g CoWare,
Co a e, Synfora Nusym
Sy o a usy
SigmaC ‘06 Analog Business Technology Inc. ‘10 ‘10 ‘10
Group ‘09 ‘09
Virtio ‘06
TriCN ‘05 ISE ‘04 Progressant ‘04 Monterey ‘04 Accelerant ‘04 ADA ‘04
HPL ’05 Nassda ‘05 Leda Inc ‘04 Cascade iRoC SA ‘04
‘04 inSilicon ‘03
Numerical Innologic
g
Leda SA ‘00 VirSim ‘00 Avant!
A t! ‘02 T h l i ‘03
Technologies Systems ‘03
Stanza
The Silicon C Level CoDesign ‘02 Qualis, Inc. ‘03
‘99
Group ‘00 Design ‘01
Apteq ‘99
99
Gambit Nihon
‘99 Smartech ‘99 Everest Design ‘98 Viewlogic ‘97 EPIC ‘97 Synopsys ‘95
Covermeter ‘99 Systems Science ‘98 Advanced Test Arkos ‘95
Technologies ‘97 Silicon Architects ‘95
Founding IPO ’92 Arcad
‘94 CADIS ‘94
OSI ‘86 Zycad ‘90 Compiled Designs ‘93 Logic Modeling ‘94

7. Challenges of a Large Family
Each family member is unique!
• Not Visible to Customers • Visible to Customers
• Software Development • Sales, Marketing, etc.
process • Software Installation
• Development Tools • Licensing
• Quality management • Bug Reporting & Tracking
• Infrastructure • Release Model
• Etc., etc., etc. • Etc., etc etc.
Etc etc., etc

8. Need for Acclimation
Interoperability and consistency
p y y
among products is a must Systems
DesignWare Synplify
Algorithms Prototyping
IP FPGA
Discovery Galaxy
• Predictable and consistent behavior
across all products improves VCS
Design
Compiler
Time
Custom
CE
customer satisfaction
VMM
M
HSPIC
PrimeT
Designer
D i
IC
Compiler
CustomSim
IC
I Validator / StarRC
C
• Proven process and technology
drives down the cost of operation and Manufacturing
support Sentaurus TCAD Proteus Litho YieldExplorer

9. Scope of Acclimation
• Sales and Distribution Channels
• Product Marketing
• Order Management Infrastructure
g
• Bug Reporting and Tracking
.
.
• Global Support Channels
.
• Product Installation
• Product Release Model
• Licensing

10. Synopsys Licensing Objectives
• Best-in class customer support
• 24/7 365 days license server up time
24/7,
• Minimum/ zero impact to product usage due to licensing
• Consistent licensing behavior among all products
• Pooling, Queuing, Heartbeat, etc.
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11. Licensing Acclimation Goals
• Synopsys Business Needs • Customers’ Needs
• Single channel for license key • Simplified licensing infra-
retrieval – SmartKeys structure
• Single system for saving
customer data
• Single license server and
Si l li d
license file for all products
• Single support channel -
SolvNet • Serve keys to new versions
y
• Standard licensing infrastructure
of products as well as
products released prior to
• License daemon, key file,
the acquisition
q
versioning scheme etc
scheme, etc.

12. Challenges
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delivery
Stanza SA ! ‘02 Syste
‘00The Silicon C Level CoDe Qualisms ‘03
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sign
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• License key encryption scheme
Gambit te Nihon
‘99 qSmar
‘99tech
Everest
Design ‘98
Viewlog
ic ‘97
g EPIC Synopsys
‘97 ‘95
• Licensing behavior (queuing
(queuing,
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Founding
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IPO‘98
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Designs ‘93 Modeling‘94 ‘94 ‘94
Maintenance of the acquired companies’ licensing infrastructure for
several years is not scalable and operationally impractical
y p y p

13. Licensing Acclimation Requirements
• Single Key Generation and Retrieval
• Ability to issue keys for legacy versions of the acquired p
y y g y q products
• Single License Server
• Server keys to new and legacy versions of the acquired products
• Support legacy versions of the acquired products for several years
• Synopsys
• Unacceptable to provide two sets of license keys (no double dipping)!
• Customers
• No impact to product usage

14. Licensing Integration Solution
• Partnered with Flexera Software to develop CVD
• Combined Vendor Daemon
• CVD consolidates several license daemons into one
• Enables license keys to be used for pre-acquired and new
versions of the products
• Enables a single, combined license file for products from
multiple acquisitions
• CVD was released in 2006
• Fully supported by Flexera Software

15. A 4-Step Acclimation Process
1 2 3 4 time
Acquisition: Release single license Release 1st feature Remove support for legacy
Change license key daemon and key file release using products (complete transition
delivery process Synopsys SDK to Synopsys Licensing)
Step 1: Acquisition – Change license key delivery process
Step 2: Release Combined Vendor Daemon (CVD) that supports acquired products
Step 3: Release 1st feature release of acquired products using Synopsys SDK
Step 4: Remove support for legacy products in key file

16. Step 1: Change license key delivery process
Synopsys SmartKeys Pre-acquisition
Synopsys SmartKeys
License keys for
acquired products
Synopsys
y p y FLEXlm
retrieved via
Daemon Daemon SmartKeys
Synopsys Products
Products
Customer

17. Step 2: Release CVD to support acquired products
Synopsys
Synopsys
y p y Acquired
q
Daemon
Daemon Daemon
Single license file and daemon
including products released
prior to acquisition
Synopsys Acquired
Products Products Synopsys Acquired
Products Products
Customers of the acquired
company must upgrade their
license server

18. Step 3: Release 1st feature release of acquired
products using Synopsys SDK
Synopsys Daemon
License key supports both
new and legacy versions of
acquired products
Legacy Release of Acquired
g y q
Products
Products of the
acquired company
release with Synopsys
licensing SDK
Synopsys Products New Release of Acquired Customers don’t need to
Products upgrade their license server;
only the key file

19. Step 4: Remove support for legacy products
in key file
Synopsys Daemon
Legacy Release of Acquired
Products
d
Implemented only when
customers stop using the
pre-acquisition versions of
Synopsys Products New Release of Acquired the acquired products
Products

20. Licensing Acclimation Benefits
• Synopsys • Customers
• Reduced cost of operation • Cost savings in terms of
• Reduced cost of support hardware and personnel to
manage license server key
server,
• No double licensing files, etc.
• Smooth and seamless • Improved end-user licensing
transition from legacy experience
i
daemon to Synopsys
licensing • No impact to product usage

21. Summary
• CVD project was successfully rolled out in 2006
• Consolidated several license dae o s into a single license se e
Co so da ed se e a ce se daemons o s g e ce se server
• All Synopsys customers use this functionality
y p y y
• 1000s of installations of CVD daemon
• Acquired products migrate to CVD 1 or 2 releases after acquisition
• Licensing acclimation process proven to be very efficient
• Significant benefit to our customers and Synopsys

22. Backup slides

23. Overview of License Acclimation Process
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