Aart de Geus - HoF

Summary : Aart de Geus: Founding and building the modern EDA company, re-shaping EDA industry into a customer-focused and trusted design partner

Aart de Geus (2012): Founding and building the modern EDA company, re-shaping EDA industry into a customer-focused and trusted design partner

Co-founded and runs Synopsys, which has become the world’s largest supplier
His vision has been instrumental in EDA evolving from crude cowboy software code
Into today’s hierarchical software that keeps track of the billions of things that have to happen to turn an idea into a design and ultimately into a computer chip
Aart has done this with razor-sharp internal and external product focus
He has not been shy on acquisitions by building Synopsys into today’s EDA leader with largest product portfolio in the industry

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