May 8, 2012 -- Synopsys, Inc. today announced it has completed the acquisition of privately held RSoft Design Group, Inc. (RSoft), a provider of photonics-design and simulation software headquartered in Ossining, New York. The combination of Synopsys' imaging and illumination design products with RSoft's photonics design products extends Synopsys' platform to provide a more complete set of optical solutions to current users, as well as to support new technologies, applications and markets as they emerge. The acquisition is a natural extension of Synopsys' entry into the optics market that started in 2010 with the acquisition of Optical Research Associates (ORA).

"RSoft's products complement our TCAD Sentaurus portfolio by providing a number of capabilities that allow us to extend our offering into other photonic areas such as optical waveguide modeling," said Howard Ko, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Synopsys' Silicon Engineering Group. "This and many other capabilities will create strong synergies with Synopsys technology that will help us enable new opportunities with key customers."

RSoft's software is used to design and optimize optical telecommunications components, as well as in the design and simulation of complete optical telecommunication systems and networks. In semiconductor manufacturing, RSoft's software is used to design and optimize nano-lithography components to enable faster and lower-power processors. RSoft's software can also be used to accurately model nano-scale optical structures that enhance the light extraction efficiency of applications such as LED structures, displays and solar cells, as well as enable increased optical-data-storage capacity.