Thank you, Terry. Good afternoon, everyone. Hosting the call today are Aart de Geus, Chairman and CEO of Synopsys, and Trac Pham, Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin, I'd like to remind everyone that during the course of this conference call, Synopsys will discuss forecasts, targets, and other forward-looking statements regarding the company and its financial results. While these statements represent our best current judgment about future results and performance as of today, our actual results are subject to many risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from what we expect. In addition to any risks that we highlight during the call, important factors that may affect our future results are described in our most recent SEC reports and today's earnings press release. In addition, we will refer to non-GAAP financial measures during the discussion.
Reconciliations to their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures and supplemental financial information can be found in the earnings press release, financial supplement, and 8-K that we released earlier today. All of these items, plus the most recent investor presentation, are available on our website at synopsys.com. In addition, the prepared remarks will be posted on the website at the conclusion of the call. With that, I'll turn it over to Aart de Geus.
Good afternoon. We delivered another excellent quarter with enduring, broad-based strength. Revenue for the quarter was $1.25 billion. GAAP earnings per share were $1.43, and non-GAAP earnings were $2.10. We generated $440 million of operating cash flow. Notwithstanding the normal ebb and flow of the semiconductor market, design activity remains robust. In addition, our business model sets us apart by adding a solid level of stability and resilience to the accelerated growth we're seeing. Based on this strength and confidence in our business, we are raising guidance for the full year. We expect to grow fiscal 2022 revenue approximately 21% and pass the $5 billion milestone. We continue to drive notable ops margin expansion, and we intend to grow non-GAAP earnings per share by approximately 29%. In the process, we expect to generate $1.6 billion-$1.65 billion in operating cash flow. Trac will discuss the financials in more detail.
Over the last 5 or so decades, semiconductor chips and software have transformed every aspect of our world, from traditional computers to networks to mobile devices, from entertainment systems to home security to medical wonder machines. Every vertical market is affected and expecting more. As a result, not only does the world demand more chips, but more chips are being designed by an expanded group of semiconductor and systems companies. Those chips are much more complex. They need to be designed faster due to time-to-market pressure and with increasingly constrained engineering talent resources. For the last 35 years, Synopsys has been privileged to grow as an essential catalyst of this transformation, delivering 10-million-times productivity. Today, Synopsys uniquely sits at the intersection of the dual system forces of semiconductors and software, enabling both with the bold ambition to catalyze another 1,000-times productivity this decade.
We partner and collaborate with the most advanced companies in the entire supply chain, and while the technical challenges are huge, so are the opportunities. On top of this, security, safety, and reliability are now a must for markets such as robotics, automotive, and aerospace. Meanwhile, more and more systems companies, from large hyperscalers to AI startups to verticals like automotive, have decided to own their destiny and design their own chips and systems to accelerate their differentiation. Today, Synopsys is successfully bridging technologies from silicon to software to systems as we engage with all these companies. In the last few years, we have delivered a number of groundbreaking innovations that are making tremendous impact. For example, in chip design, we're automating not only individual design steps but entire subflows.
Our preconfigured IP blocks not only speed up chip design but also let architects rapidly explore new market-specific chip and system configurations. Our emulation and prototyping solutions are now essential to verify and optimize the interplay between hardware and software in the system. In addition, we continue to grow our solutions that enable high-quality and more secure software as well as provide security IP blocks. Leading the way is our award-winning DSO.ai artificial intelligence design solution, which is revolutionizing chip design. First to market over two years ago with technology that is still unmatched today, it delivers outstanding productivity improvements that are already driving substantial increases in customer commitments. The technical results are truly groundbreaking. Customers are seeing tremendous benefits from DSO.ai's ability to learn from prior designs.
For example, two of the largest, most advanced semiconductor companies in the world achieved a 25% reduction in turnaround time and compute resources. DSO.ai is also driving very significant low-power improvements, exemplified by a large automotive chip maker achieving a 30% power reduction. These compelling outcomes are driving a high pace of adoption for production tapeouts across verticals and a broad set of process nodes. Examples this quarter include long-term business commitments at a marquee U.S. hyperscaler and top consumer chip company. Our entire market-leading digital design solution both empowers and benefits from DSO.ai. This highly differentiated combination led to a competitive displacement at a large automotive chip company in Q3. Our Fusion Compiler product continues to drive accelerated growth and competitive wins across market verticals and a broad swath of technology nodes. This quarter, we expect to pass the 1,000 tapeout milestone with successes in many different customer categories.
Fusion Compiler has generated notable runtime and PPA performance power area, improvements at top graphics processor companies, and we have gained majority positions at one of the largest mobile SoC providers and at multiple leading hyperscalers. Excellent progress and strong demand also for our modern custom design solutions. This area of growth is fueled by the key segments that include hyperscalers, high-performance compute, and AI machine learning. In custom design, long dominated by older products, we've already surpassed last year's new logos with 36 additional year-to-date, including high-profile semiconductor and hyperscaler customers. Companies driving smart everything continue to innovate at breathtaking speed and are now embracing migration to multi-die system designs for next-generation systems. Our multi-die system solution that includes our 3DIC Compiler platform and die-to-die IP portfolio is seeing strong demand. Not surprisingly, the key markets are high-performance compute, data center, and mobile.
While we continue to expand deployment at a marquee U.S. IDM, we also experienced increased traction at prominent high-performance compute and hyperscaler customers for complex 3D multi-die and chiplet designs. In mobile, we achieved plan-of-record at leading semiconductor companies for their next-generation multi-die processors. In high-performance compute, multi-die systems incorporate a new interconnect IP standard, UCIe, which stands for Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express. As the term express captures, it is all about speed, and Synopsys is seeing great traction in this area with a healthy pipeline and multiple wins at 3-nanometer. More broadly, IP blocks are a must-have to meet intense time-to-market pressures. Our unique breadth of scale and scale of our high-quality IP portfolio with early availability at advanced processes continue to drive strong momentum.
Demand is particularly high in markets such as high-performance computing and AI/machine learning, automotive, and mobile, where systems are fueled by smart everything, high-speed and secure connectivity, and advanced process geometries. In this context, our ARC Vision Processor IP was named Best Automotive AI Solution by the Edge AI and Vision Alliance. Meanwhile, our industry-leading ARC NPX and VPX processor cores that accelerate neural networks continue to see strong adoption in augmented and virtual reality, automotive, and consumer applications with multiple wins in the quarter. In automotive, we closed significant transactions with large traditional and new OEMs, tier ones, and semiconductor vendors. Security remains front and center across all market segments. We're gaining strong adoption of our security solutions for interfaces such as PCI Express, CXL, and DDR, with more than 30 design wins across all market segments.
Now moving to the crucial intersection of hardware and software, in other words, verifying that the chips and system will do what was intended. Our market-leading emulation and prototyping hardware products are a unique strength and clear differentiator for Synopsys. With the fastest engines, highest capacity, and lowest cost of ownership, we're doing very well. Our products not only verify hardware-software correctness but also help find ways to reduce power consumption, one of the most vital metrics of any system. High demand continues for our ZeBu emulation and HAPS-100 prototyping systems, growing with many of the largest semiconductor and hyperscaler customers in the world. We are on pace for yet another record year of hardware revenue. With smart everything entering every vertical market, requirements for security and safety continue to expand. Our software integrity business is a key enabler of modern software security.
Our leading portfolio of products and consulting is unique in its ability to provide high value for developers, the DevOps group, and the corporate security team. This business is rapidly approaching the $0.5-billion TTM revenue mark. This quarter, we saw many multi-year, $ multi-million commitments in both renewals and new business. Business touched a broad set of verticals, including financial institutions, semiconductors, government, medical, and enterprise software. Our channel partner program progressed well this quarter with notable new logos and expansions into new customer divisions. We also continue to increase business in new countries that we have never sold to before and repeat business with partners that opened new markets as recently as the past 12 months. Finally, we further strengthened our broad product and consulting portfolio with the acquisition of WhiteHat Security and its leading solution in dynamic application security testing.
We're excited to have the outstanding WhiteHat team part of Synopsys, and while it's only been a few weeks, the integration is going well, and customer response has been enthusiastic. In summary, we delivered another excellent quarter, and we are raising our outlook for fiscal 2022. Multiple game-changing innovations are driving outstanding technical and business results reflected in our accelerated growth. Notwithstanding economic choppiness, customers continue to invest heavily in critical chips, system designs, and immense amounts of software. Against this backdrop, our technology vision and execution drive growth, while our resilient business model provides a level of stability that stands out in the software industry. As we prepare to imminently cross the $5 billion revenue mark, I want to thank our employees around the world for their ongoing efforts and commitment. With that, I'll turn it over to Trac.
Thanks, Aart. Good afternoon, everyone. Q3 was another excellent quarter. We delivered revenue and EPS above our targets and achieved cash flow above our plan. For the full year, we are raising our outlook and are on track to deliver over 20% revenue growth, an increase in non-GAAP operating margin of approximately 250 basis points, non-GAAP earnings per share growth of approximately 29%, and $1.6 billion-$1.65 billion in operating cash flow. We continue to execute well, which is a testament to our innovative technology portfolio, ongoing design activity by our customers who continue to invest through semiconductor cycles, financial discipline, and the stability and resilience of our time-based business model. I'll now review the Q3 results. All comparisons are year-over-year unless otherwise stated. We generated total revenue of $1.25 billion, up 18 percent year over year, with broad-based strength.
Total GAAP costs and expenses were $1.01 billion. Total non-GAAP costs and expenses were $856 million, resulting in a non-GAAP operating margin of 31.4%. GAAP earnings per share were $1.43. Non-GAAP earnings per share were $2.10, up 16% over the prior year. Semiconductor and system design segment revenue was $1.13 billion, up 18%, driven by continued strength in EDA and IP. Trailing 12-month semiconductor and system design adjusted operating margin was 35.8%. Software integrity segment revenue was $118 million, up 21%, with trailing 12-month adjusted operating margin of 11%. We continue to expect software integrity to deliver 15%-20% growth with expanded adjusted operating margin in 2022. Turning to cash, we generated $440 million in operating cash flow. We used $257 million of our cash for buybacks and have repurchased $972 million of stock over the past 12 months.
In addition, we paid $330 million to acquire WhiteHat Security. Our balance sheet remains very strong. We ended the quarter with cash and short-term investments of $1.53 billion and debt of $22 million. Now to guidance. We are raising our full-year outlook for revenue, earnings, and cash flow. For fiscal year 2022, the full-year targets are revenue of $5.06-$5.09 billion, which represents 20%-21% growth. Total GAAP costs and expenses between $3.978 billion and $3.998 billion. Total non-GAAP costs and expenses between $3.395 billion and $3.05 billion, resulting in a non-GAAP operating margin improvement of approximately 250 basis points. Non-GAAP tax rate of 18%. GAAP earnings of $6.37-$6.49 per share. Non-GAAP earnings of $8.80-$8.85 per share, representing approximately 29% growth. Cash flow from operations of $1.6-$1.65 billion. Capital expenditures of approximately $145 million. Now to the targets for the Q4.
Revenue between $1.263 billion-$1.293 billion. Total GAAP costs and expenses between $1.076 billion-$1.096 billion. Total non-GAAP costs and expenses between $919 million-$929 million. GAAP earnings of $1.06-$1.18 per share and non-GAAP earnings of $1.80-$1.85 per share. Consistent with our prior years, we will provide additional comments and guidance for 2023 when we report next quarter. In conclusion, we again delivered revenue and non-GAAP earnings above our targets. Based on our excellent results year to date and strong outlook, we are again raising our targets for the full year. We continue to see strong momentum in the business and are executing well with our robust portfolio and resilient business model. With that, I'll turn it over to the operator for questions.
Great. Hi, everyone. Maybe I'll start with kind of two questions on backlog. One, just where it finished the quarter, and then two, you've been in this stretch of really remarkable sequential backlog growth, and I completely understand you only get a shot to renew an enterprise customer with a three-year deal every three years. So are we reaching a point where maybe the backlog metrics stabilize and you start to pull bigger ACV out of the backlog, and that starts to show up in maybe a more meaningful way in forward revenue metrics?
Hi, Joe. Well, I'm glad you started with that question and added some caveats to it. Backlog for the quarter ended at $7.1 billion. As you alluded to, it will fluctuate quarter to quarter depending on the timing and recognition of revenue. The one thing I'll add to backlog too is that we aim for a duration target in the 2.5-3-year range. This quarter was on the lower end, running closer to 2.3 years, so slightly outside of our range.
Okay. That is helpful. Then in your financial supplement, obviously, you reiterated all of the long-term targets. Then as a footnote, they're current as of today, and they've taken into account all current entity list restrictions. There were some new updates to entity list restrictions. You've also had a much stronger current fiscal year, so the baseline against which you expect to grow double digits, I guess it might be a bit harder. Is that kind of the right way, a literal interpretation of all of these things when thinking about what Synopsys intends to do next fiscal year?
Let me take the Entity List part. All the forward projections that we always give you take into account anything we know about Entity List or even suspected Entity List increases. Typically, the Entity List doesn't grow particularly fast or a lot, but we follow rigorously whatever the government decides there. I would say at this point in time for projections, it's not material in terms of changes.
Good afternoon, everybody. Thanks for taking my question. Apologize for the background noise. I want to start out with a question about headcount. If I read your supplemental data correctly, it's up about close to 2,000 quarter-over-quarter. Does that reflect just aggressive hiring, some acquisitions, all the above? Is it part of the reason why we're starting to see a pretty sharp increase in the OpEx?
Gary, the increase from Q2 to Q3 does reflect some amount of acquisitions for WhiteHat, but it also reflects the planned organic hires for the year. The increase in expenses for the quarter and Q4 that we're guiding to does reflect our expected hiring, as well as, frankly, given how strong the year has been, we are accruing for some additional variable comp.
Okay. For the past two years, we've had a pretty good backdrop in which you license, right? We've had above-trend semiconductor industry revenue growth, but it's clear that the industry is entering a more challenging time. We've heard from some companies about a minimum pulling back on hiring, just tightening down, so to speak. My question to you is, have you seen any hesitation on the part of customers in signing large deals, or are you having to go to a higher level to get approvals for large deals?
We're well aware of companies having reduced their hiring, at least temporarily, somewhat. I have not heard of any significant pullback or hesitation. The design activities typically don't mirror immediately what happens in the market because the market is really a function of the end sales, i.e., the quantity of chips being sold. R&D is very stable against that. More often than not, when there's a flat period or even a downturn, people invest in R&D to make sure that they have differentiation coming out of it. As we, I think, said in the preamble, we feel that our business is actually very robust right now.
Gary, in addition to that, from a business metric perspective, we saw run rate up pretty strongly in Q3, so we're not seeing any indication of those concerns.
Hi. It's Sassine Ghazi for Gal, congrats on the quarter. Just if you think about helping guide us again, it's been a year of pretty outstanding execution. If you look back at when you first guided, what surprised you most this year so far that has allowed you to kind of walk up guidance throughout the year? Thank you.
Yeah. If you look at the guidance that we just gave for this fiscal year and compare it to where we were back in December, at the midpoint, we're up north of $300 million in terms of the outlook for the year. What we're seeing in terms of that better outlook is just really strength across all of the products. Going into the year, we did expect it to be a strong year, but the traction that we've gotten on the new products, the continued strength on our IP business, and there's just a continued momentum on SIG that we saw for the previous four quarters continued. We really saw strong growth across the customer base, across all geos, across all product lines. Business is doing really well.
Great. That's helpful. I just want to have one quick follow-up. How is DSO.ai contributing financially to growth? Is it at any material level yet? Just kind of the growth outlook on that and what you guys are looking forward . Thank you.
Sorry, it was a little hard to understand the whole question, but on DSO.ai, you have to think of this as sort of a multiplier on our existing products. It's our products working together in a flow. DSO.ai really improves both the speed of getting results and the quality of the results in terms of typically the performance and the power utilization of the resulting chips. That is of super high value, but that also encourages our customers to work with our suite because the suite of tools is particularly well matched to DSO.ai. That is really one of the reasons that we see strong growth around that entire digital design solution.
Good afternoon and congratulations on the solid results and execution.
Thank you.
On the long-term growth outlook, yeah, with the passing of the CHIPS Act combined with the recent semiconductor supply chain disruptions that we've seen over the past 2.5 years, you've got growing geopolitical risk. Many of your semiconductor customers are prioritizing manufacturing diversification, and they're now starting to put in place plans to support one or more new foundry partners. This is going to entail new library development, new IP blocks, and even in some cases, new design flows. This is for both leading-edge digital and analog. I know that your customers have to add design engineers every time they add a new foundry partner. Aart, is this focus on diversification a forward driver of both your EDA and IP businesses as well?
The answer in a nutshell is absolutely yes. You actually explained the situation very lucidly because it's clearly visible that manufacturing is in the front of the mind of many countries because they want to make sure that they have supply. The value of chips has suddenly been recognized by not having them, meaning a supply shortage immediately puts the attention on that. From a development point of view, when you put more manufacturing in place, you need to have the complete enablement capabilities, which are the tools, the IP, the services, and so on. You said correctly, and the talent. If there's one thing that we cannot grow faster than a 20-year rate, it's talent in the world. That is going to be one of the shortages.
One of the interesting side ramifications for us is this is one additional reason why the value of being able to shorten design time is so valuable. It's even better than that. In some of the capabilities that we have, we can get these results with less skilled people and fewer of them. By no means would this reduce employment in the industry, on the contrary, but it does help a little bit with this talent shortage. All of this ties together pretty much in the way you described it. Thank you.
No, I appreciate that. Another growth trend I sort of wanted to touch base is on you talked about the expansion of your customer base in chip design to a lot of your sort of systems-level customers. Recently, one of the largest ASIC semi companies, it's a big customer for Synopsys. They did a deep dive into their ASIC business, and they've helped customers like Google, Cisco, Facebook, and many others bring their ASIC chips to the market. They've got a design win pipeline, I think, of somewhere over 70 advanced chip designs. Now, obviously, this is the classical engagement model, right? The systems customer does much of the front-end design, which obviously has been a strong growth driver for Synopsys. The ASIC company, like a Broadcom or Marvell, does the back-end physical design closure, verification, tapeout.
I'm wondering if you're starting to see the move by these ASIC systems customers to move more towards a full-flow or COT model, which obviously would open up more growth opportunities for your team as well?
Well, we see them go in all of these directions. For these large hyperscalers that you mentioned, they are all essentially discovering what the semiconductor world looks like because they have figured out that the semiconductor is a direct multiplier on their software. You can also say it in the other direction. The software is a direct multiplier on the semiconductor underneath. If they can optimize solutions for just their applications, in other words, narrower solutions, that is their hope to get much higher speed, throughput, and in some cases, also much less power utilization. You're absolutely correct that you can go having a full design flow yourself.
You can have a full service company do everything for you, or you can do something in between, which is the ASIC pathway where you design most of the functionality, structure the architecture, and then let somebody else do the physical design. I think these will all three stay alive. The good news is a lot more people that want chips just for themselves. That's where you see this broadening of different architectures. Certainly, AI was a foreboding example of that because literally 100 or so AI companies are all designing the best chip ever, of course. The reality is it's a race for different vertical segments.
Yeah. Good afternoon. Thank you for taking my question. Maybe, Aart, the first question, you sort of mentioned about apps and flows happening in the semiconductor industry and, quite frankly, the broader macroeconomy. Looking ahead into 2023, I know you're not guiding 2023, but what do you think? Are you going to maintain your low double-digit growth into quite a challenging year in terms of macro next year? Because when I look at your historical numbers, after you transitioned to basically a time-based revenue model, you probably only had one year that is kind of showing flat-ish kind of growth, which was 2008, 2009, around that time. Maybe very specifically, my question is, how bad the macro has to be for what happened in 2008, 2009 to repeat in 2023, 2024? Do you think that's going to happen? If not, and why? Thank you.
Well, of course, bringing up 2008, 2009 is bringing up something where in 2008, people thought this is the Great Depression coming back, right? There was very little consistency or belief that this would go away after a couple of years. Having said that, in 2008, 2009, we were able to actually, every year, eke out a little bit of growth, but for all practical purposes, we were flat. I think one of the reasons for that was our stable business model. The other reason was that people don't stop R&D for a long time before they decide to have to cut that because that is cutting off your future. They'd rather starve the rest of the company a bit in order to make sure that new products keep coming out.
The other observation is that even in 2008, 2009, there was no slowdown of new technology, meaning if you stop designing for two years, you are definitely no longer in the leading pack from a technology point of view. Am I the right person to ask if we're going to have an 2008, 2009 economy going forward? No, I'm not the right person, but I also don't believe that that's going to happen. The indications right now, subject to, of course, any crazy political situation, but aside of that, all our key customers are investing in technology and are racing forward.
Thank you. Maybe another question specifically about your IP, excluding the system integration business. 2021, definitely, you are growing, I believe, slightly ahead of your mid-teens outlook, probably closer to 20%. 2022, year to date, looks like your IP growth is potentially very strong double-digit and probably north of 20%, I assume. But you're still guiding 15% long-term outlook. Maybe this is a kind of simplistic view here. Is there a risk of mean reversion at some point, meaning IP could grow under 15% at some point in the future? Why or why not? Thank you.
I understand that your objective is to look at what we're going to do in 2023, but well that in December, we'll give you better guidance on that. I like to raise the fact that when we gave you the long-term objectives, this is only December. It's not that long ago. I don't expect that we will surprise you in some big way in December. I think we're well on track to continue against those expectations.
Great. Thanks for fitting me in. So, Aart, the references for DSO.ai, the customer wins, they're quite impressive. How are customers using DSO today? Is it more proof of concept type work? Is it leading-edge type work? Are these customers evaluating Cadence Cerebrus simultaneously? Thanks.
Well, the reason I mentioned that it has impact on our business is because they're using this in production. Yes, of course, the most advanced people have always been the people that first pick up on the most capable new tools. These are very advanced, often large companies that are doing now many designs with this capability because the value is high, and they are definitely seeing the issue of insufficient talent. That's sort of the main space. I don't know, actually, that we see much of our competition, not to put them down or anything like that. I'm sure they're doing good stuff. The advances that we've made in the last year, even in my own book, are quite remarkable and are broadening, by the way, to more and more capabilities going forward.
I think we're into a whole next phase of what EDA will mean to our customers. Very often, advanced users try very quickly, and then they're very careful. They tried very quickly, and they're absolutely adopting.
Okay. Great. Thank you. Trac, again, impressive guidance raise here. Sorry to try to parse this out, but how much of the revenue contribution in the guidance is coming from WhiteHat?
Oh, just to give you a sense of WhiteHat for the year, it's about $15 million-$20 million in terms of revenue. A large part of the raise for the full year is really coming from a very strong, healthy organic business.
Okay. Great. Thank you.
You're welcome.
Thank you. Good evening. Aart, a technology question for you first and then a follow-up for Trac. On the subject of AI, two things. First, could you talk about how you do your own internal development for AI, that is, for DSO.ai? The reason I ask is, as I'm sure you're well aware, there's an arms race across multiple software companies, each claiming to have some AI. Obviously, you do. It's in production. I'm curious as to how you distinguish or carve out your own internal AI, specifically for EDA purposes, as compared to the developments you do for the tools themselves. Then more broadly, how do you think about the implications of AI for the IP business?
The reason I ask that is Synopsys, in a recent technology presentation, actually at an Ansys conference, spoke about, for example, AI in the context of design reuse, design remastering, all of which would seem to have some implication for IP, in which, of course, you're number one, at least in EDA. For Trac, one number that has become increasingly material in your disclosures, and I'm sure we'll get the update in a couple of days in the queue, is your FSAs, which was $1 billion as of the end of Q2. Could you talk about the composition of that number? Is that predominantly IP? And how does it factor into your guidance and revenue growth assumptions?
Okay. Let me start with AI. The first thing to understand with AI is AI is a a very advanced way of programming solutions to a variety of problems. Of course, we use the traditional approach, but we also use what's called pattern matching, where you find situations where the recognition of the situation allows you to improve something for the better. Now, that statement applies to the domain that you apply it to. If we took our DSO.ai and say, "Hey, tomorrow morning, we're going to do, I don't know, blood diagnostics and learn something about patients," we would have initially zero to offer because the AI needs to be matched in its intent to the area of the problem. By the way, I de facto alluded to that a minute ago on the question of why the AI chips.
All these people are essentially optimizing for their domain, right? Well, we have optimized for our domain, and our domain is unbelievably complex because we have, arguably, some of the most complex search spaces, meaning those are all the potential solutions, finding the right one in any field. It's really the combination of the understanding of what we do and then the exploration with AI that fits together. Secondly, AI for IP, of course, we use it ourselves. A very simple reason would be one could consider Synopsys as one of the most advanced design companies in the world for what we do. We don't use our designs to put chips on the market. We don't design chips. We design IP blocks. The concept is actually similar.
Third, you mentioned something interesting that I'm well familiar with, which is the need and the desire to sometimes take an existing design and migrate it to a different technology node. Sometimes it's called remastering. Sometimes it's called retargeting. That's the word you use, I think. Initially, we did some experiments already a year ago for going from one node to another node that was pretty similar. We got excellent results, and we got them fast, and we could learn from the existing design and apply it to the new one. Meanwhile, we've vastly improved on that because we've been able to move many nodes forward in terms of node technology and still get much better results. I'm the first one to say we're at the beginning of a big journey, but so far, it's a a very promising journey.
Hey, Jay. Your question on FSAs and the mix of that and how it affects our results. FSAs are predominantly IP, but there's a good portion of EDA software in there as well. With FSAs, what's changed most significantly is since ASC 606 went in effect. Whenever a customer pulls down software or pulls down IP, revenue gets recognized at that point where historically it would have been recognized over time. You'll see that create more variability in the business. Now, on the plus side, from a commercial perspective, what's great about FSAs is that it gives our customer a lot more flexibility in terms of how they can transact. They'll sign a contract. This is an area where if you continue to innovate and launch new products, they will actually see them consume those FSAs quicker.
You'll see an acceleration of revenues from that business model.
Understood. Thank you very much.
You're welcome.
Thank you, Jay.
Hi. This is Sassine Ghazi on behalf of the bank, and thank you for taking the question. I want to focus on EDA. Obviously, you've raised your full-year guidance, but for EDA specifically, growth has slowed to just mid-single digits, and now it's below a trend of 10%-15%. Could you help us understand what's causing this slowdown, and when do you expect it to go back to the trend line? Thank you.
Let me clarify. The business is doing very well, and certainly, we're seeing growth in that business line within our business model of double-digit growth. What you're seeing here is just a function of two things. The fluctuation, the comparisons to last year. Remember, this year, you've got hardware that's front-end loaded compared to last year, which is more back-end loaded. It's a function of the comparison. Also, when you decompose the EDA software business, which is about 65% of our overall revenues, we're growing very nicely, certainly well within the double-digit model.
Great. Just a follow-up to an earlier question on the entity list. Is it possible to give us a sense of how much of your sales are coming from gate-all-around development in China, whether domestic Chinese companies or multinationals? Thank you.
Well, Aart, none of that is material, but gate-all-around in China doesn't exist yet.
Got it. Thank you.
Art, just wondering if there was anything you'd call out from the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, any change or opportunities it might present for Synopsys?
Well, as you know, many countries are putting big investments in the semiconductor area in general. The U.S. has been hesitant to do that for a while, but that now came to conclusion. It's a magnitude similar to investments that Europe is committing to or that Korea is committing to. China has a larger commitment, but over a longer period of time. I think this is all in recognition that when you don't have chips, you really want them badly. Supply shortages brought a lot of attention. At the same time, I think there's also an increased understanding that the importance of chips is growing because the importance of adding smarts in every aspect of life will require more computation. That computation needs to be really fast, and that we're still at the beginning of exploring the full impact of AI.
People are investing in that from a strategic point of view. As somebody else noted, I think earlier, a lot of those investments are initially aimed at essentially putting manufacturing capacity in. Around that, there needs to be quite a bit of enablement. There will also be investments made to look at newer ways of doing things. We highlighted the whole multi-chip or multi-die, 3DIC. There are many different names for it, very tight packaging, and there will most definitely be investments in that, but also specialty technologies that are needed so that one is not dependent on some singular location in the world to get those. In all of these, we are close partners to the companies that are the primary companies to respond to these requirements. We are, in many ways, the enabler.
We like to use the term the catalyst to make it happen. If the industry around us does well, they will need us to really do well. I think it's only upside.
Okay. Great. Thank you. Just one other follow-up on the DSO.ai questions. Any sense of the breadth of interest in the product? Obviously, the more advanced customers are looking at it first. Are you seeing it really broaden out into the bigger part of your base and in the systems companies, for example, and so forth? Just wondering, how deep is the opportunity for DSO.ai?
Oh, I think it is very broad. It will follow sort of the urgency of the individual companies and also the skill set of the individual companies. In the system houses, we already have a number of people using it there as well. At the same time, we have also some people say, "Oh, no. Let's not go too fast. Let me first put in a 'regular' chip design approach." Well, yeah, that will take a year, and then they will want to go faster too. Fundamentally, This will continue to be a strong component of any design flow over time. We have a very wide industry and some very advanced people and some companies that can do fine without necessarily using the most advanced versions.
Well, at this point in time, thank you for your support and interest. We continue to do well against markets that certainly demand the skills that we have to provide. We hope that we'll be able to deliver to you what we said for this year. Actually, we don't hope. We plan. That is passing the $5 billion mark, and that's an exciting moment. Thank you for your support, and thank you to our employees to help make this happen.