Industry Expert Blogs

Last week I talked to Marco Brambilla of Synapse Design. Synapse is a design services company headquartered in Silicon Valley. It was founded in 2003 by Satish Bagalkotkar and has been profitable since the beginning. Today it has over 700 people. In addition to the headquarters in Santa Clara, they have a software group in Colorado, and design centers in Shanghai, Bangalore, Taiwan, Italy and more. They are a pure design services company. While most of their projects are some version of ASIC, Synapse engagement models also include customer-provided RTL and Synapse completes the design tapeout, or a full turnkey starting from architecture or specification down to design tapeout.

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