Broad support provided across its industry-leading electronic design automation solutions: Synopsys has announced broad support across its advanced electronic design automation (EDA) product lines for Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) on x86_64-based systems. The combination of Synopsys' powerful EDA solutions and the proven Solaris 10 OS on robust x86_64 processors can provide significant productivity gains for engineering teams developing next-generation system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Synopsys products running on the Solaris 10 OS with x86_64 platforms are expected to provide engineering teams with a higher level of performance and productivity gains because these EDA tools and systems are able to provide the sophisticated solutions needed for the design and verification of today's SoCs. I am pleased to see Sun and Synopsys build on their long standing collaboration to help deliver world class electronic design automation solutions to customers," said Juan Carlos Soto, vice president of Global Market Development and Engineering at Sun Microsystems, Inc. "With this announcement, customers have even more hardware choices that leverage the Solaris OS and its proven scalability and performance to use Synopsys solutions to develop state of the art processors and ASICs." "Our leading-edge EDA tool families' broad support for Solaris 10 on x86_64 processors offers our customers more choice and flexibility in the compute platforms available for SoC design," said Rich Goldman, vice president of Corporate Marketing and Strategic Market Development at Synopsys. "Our customers value the ability to choose optimal combinations of operating systems and hardware on which to execute our state-of-the-art product suites."