Synopsys API
Synopsys publishes no general-purpose platform API. The closest thing is the Cloud OpenLink API, an OpenAPI v3 spec for license entitlement, gated to vetted foundry and EDA partners. Everything else is tool-internal Tcl and Python scripting, with docs behind SolvNetPlus login.
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Synopsys scores C on the API Report Card. Synopsys publishes no general-purpose platform API. The closest thing is the Cloud OpenLink API, an OpenAPI v3 spec for license entitlement, gated to vetted foundry and EDA partners. Everything else is tool-internal Tcl and Python scripting, with docs behind SolvNetPlus login.
Synopsys has an official API, but teams routinely hit its limits: gated access, partial coverage, or paid tiers. Most end up supplementing it with exports or an unofficial API layer like Supergood.
Synopsys is the dominant electronic design automation (EDA) software company and a leading silicon IP supplier, providing the design, verification, implementation, signoff, emulation, and prototyping tools used to build essentially every modern semiconductor.
Electronic Design Automation and semiconductor IP, with the post-Ansys expansion into multiphysics engineering simulation. RTL synthesis, place-and-route, and physical implementation (Fusion Compiler, IC Compiler II). Custom/analog and mixed-signal IC design (Custom Compiler, PrimeSim, FineSim).
9/10 within its vertical, 3/10 across the broader B2B SaaS universe Supergood normalizes.
License entitlements, feature keys, and usage telemetry (FlexNet/SCL daemon logs, peak-usage reports). Design project metadata: tool versions, technology nodes, PDK/IP versions in use.
Founded 1986 in Research Triangle Park, NC; relocated to Mountain View and now headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. Public on NASDAQ as SNPS since February 1992.
OpenLink API is access-gated to vetted foundry/EDA/IP partners; not available to general developers or end customers. No published rate limits or SLA in the OpenLink spec, leaving partners to negotiate operationally. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Cadence Design Systems, Siemens EDA (formerly Mentor Graphics), Arm, Ansys (pre-acquisition peer set: COMSOL, Altair, Dassault Simulia), Keysight EEsof / PathWave, Silvaco. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.