Keysight acquires Optical Solutions Group from Synopsys and PowerArtist from Ansys
The company says these acquisitions complement and expand its design engineering software portfolio, enhancing system-level simulation and enabling earlier, more accurate photonics design decisions
Keysight Technologies has announced it has completed its acquisition of the Optical Solutions Group from Synopsys, and PowerArtist from Ansys. The company says these acquisitions complement and expand its design engineering software portfolio and computer-aided engineering capabilities, enabling customers to take innovative designs to market faster.
According to Keysight, the Optical Solutions Group is a leading developer of optical design and analysis software tools, and brings intelligent, predictive optical design tools to the company, such as CODE V for imaging systems design, LightTools for illumination design, LucidShape for automotive lighting design, ImSym for imaging systems virtual prototyping, and RSoft photonic device tools for rigorous electromagnetic simulations of photonic and optoelectronic devices.
Meanwhile, PowerArtist specialises in pre-synthesis power analysis and provides a comprehensive register-transfer-level (RTL) design-for-power platform used for early-stage power analysis and reduction of semiconductor designs, across a wide range of end industry applications.
Keysight highlights that these strategic acquisitions are backed by a world-class team of engineers and scientists with deep domain expertise in photonics, optics, power analysis, and multi-physics simulation. The teams joining from the Optical Solutions Group and PowerArtist bring decades of innovation and technical leadership, further advancing Keysight’s system-level simulation capabilities and empowering customers to innovate with greater speed and precision, the company adds.
Niels Faché, Senior Vice President of Keysight’s Design Engineering Software, said: “Keysight is expanding its high-performance, multi-physics design capabilities with the Optical Solutions Group and PowerArtist acquisitions,” said Niels Faché, senior vice president of Keysight’s design engineering software. “These additions enhance system-level simulation, enabling earlier, more accurate power, optical, and photonics design decisions. By integrating world-class optical expertise and leading RTL power analysis, we are strengthening our position as a trusted partner for high-performance, multi-domain system designs including RF, analogue, digital, photonics and optics in an open, vendor-agnostic ecosystem.”
