EDUCATIONAL MASTER’S PROGRAM ON MICROELECTRONIC DEVICE DESIGN TO BE PRESENTED TO RUSSIAN PRESIDENT BY SYNOPSYS ARMENIA
Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Sept 22 2006
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 22, NOYAN TAPAN. The Russian President Vladimir
Putin will visit on September 25 the Microlelectronic Technics
Research Institute in the technopolis Zelenograd near Moscow. A
higer educational master’s program developed by Synopsys Armenia
company will be on display in one of the pavilions. Hovik Musaelian,
Director General of Synopsys Armenia, said that during the September
22 press conference, reminding that the indicated program is operating
at Yerevan State University and the State Engineering University of
Armenia. A total of 230 students of the microelctronic device design
departments use this program in their educational process.
According to H. Musaelian, in terms of its work volume, Synopsys
Armenia is second among subdivisions of Synopsys company (US), a world
leader in the design of microelectronic devices and the manufacture of
design software. It was noted that chips designed by Synopsys Armenia
are used in manufacturing 70% of memory devices of 70% of cell phones
produced worldwide. The company’s chips are also used in aeronautics
and other spheres. As of December 2005, the company had 300 employees.
According to the company’s director general, over the past two
years, Synopsys has installed software of 350 mln USD at two Yerevan
universities where microelectronic device design laboratories were
set up.