Compute Platforms Roadmap

The Synopsys Compute Platforms Roadmap gives customers a look ahead at Synopsys' compute platforms support plans for hardware architectures and operating systems. Not all Synopsys products are released on all platforms listed in this Roadmap. The Synopsys Release Library at https://solvnet.synopsys.com/ReleaseLibrary, is the best source of information on product/platform availability.

Information contained in this page reflects Synopsys' plans as of the date of this presentation. Such plans are subject to completion and are subject to change. Products may be offered and purchased only pursuant to an authorized quote and purchase order. Synopsys is not obligated to develop the software with the features and functionality discussed in the materials.

Highlights

• X-Foundation changes:
• Sun SPARC 2 hardware is no longer supported.
• Y-Foundation changes:
• The Sun SPARC baseline OS becomes Solaris 9 for both 32-bit and 64-bit.
• Binary compatibility support for Solaris 10 on Sun SPARC added
• Binary compatibility support for RHEL v4 added for x86 and x86_64 for both 32-bit and 64-bit
• The IBM AIX baseline OS becomes AIX 5.3.
• Z-Foundation changes:
• Support for RHEL v3 on both x86 and x86_64 extended for this foundation (change from previous roadmap)
• HP-UX on PA-RISC no longer supported in this foundation
• A-Foundation changes:
• The x86 baseline for RHEL becomes RHEL v4
• The x86_64 baseline for RHEL becomes RHEL v4 for both 32-bit and 64-bit
• Binary compatibility support for RHEL v5 added for x86 and x86_64 for both 32-bit and 64-bit
• Binary compatibility support for SLES10 added for x86 and x86_64 for both 32-bit and 64-bit
• RHEL on Itanium no longer supported in this foundation
• Solaris 10 on x86_64 supported by VCS in this foundation

Contents

• Definitions
• The Synopsys Synchronized Release Model
• Sun SPARC Solaris 32-Bit & 64-Bit  
• x86 (IA-32) Linux 32-Bit
• x86_64 Linux 32-Bit & 64-Bit
• Itanium 2 Processor Family (IPF-2) Linux 64-Bit
• HP PA-RISC HP-UX 32-Bit & 64-Bit
• IBM RS6000 AIX 32-Bit & 64-Bit
• Microsoft Windows
• x86_64 Solaris 32-bit & 64-bit

Operating system baseline:
The operating system version which Synopsys uses to build and test our products. You will achieve the greatest degree of success if you align your run-time environment with the Synopsys OS baseline for the platform you choose.

Binary compatibility (BC)
Versions of operating systems on which Synopsys performs compatibility testing. It is not possible for Synopsys to align operating system baseline with every operating system version. Recognizing that there are often compelling reasons for customers to migrate to the latest operating system versions, Synopsys also performs certification testing on these systems. Issues discovered on non-certified platforms must be duplicated on a certified platform and the issue will be addressed on the certified platform

A list of products and certified operating systems can be found in the Release Library at https://solvnet.synopsys.com/ReleaseLibrary

The Synopsys Synchronized Release Model consists of:

• A common foundation of operating systems, compilers and tools that is set every 9 months
• Quarterly product release opportunities - 3 per foundation, 4 per year
• Product updates and feature releases can be made with any release opportunity

A foundation can change every 9 months. Mature operating systems, such as Solaris, can be expected to remain static for many foundations. Newer operating systems, such as Linux, may change with every foundation to keep up with market demand and vendor releases. Synopsys typically baselines on a single operating system version for each SRM Foundation.

Please note that the roadmap is arranged by release opportunities. The red box below indicated the Y-Foundation which consists of the 2006.03, 2006.06, and 2006.09 release opportunities.