Synopsys says new tools help design cars, data centers faster

Synopsys on Wednesday showed a set of software tools designed to make it easier and faster to design cars, data centers and other big systems that rely on semiconductors. Synopsys is one of the major players in making software for designing the chips themselves, helping companies like Nvidia decide how to arrange hundreds of billions of transistors on small squares of silicon. But with its $35 billion offer to buy engineering software firm Ansys, Synopsys aims to also help customers design the products and systems where those chips will ultimately end up.