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72 / 15 adds Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys Inc only, both under their full company names.
How the emulation seat is cut: HAV inside, not company-wide EDA
How it is built
This page reads the HAV / emulation application-engineer seat at Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys Inc. 72 / 15 adds these two names only.
How titles classify
The slice is emulation / HAV / fabrication AE, not company-wide EDA. 656 Cadence-name collisions are out.
Who compares to whom
Synopsys Inc 43 versus 11. Cadence Design Systems 29 versus 4. US layers are 18 and 16.
Outside this slice
Cadence here is Cadence Design Systems, not bare Cadence. Coverity and SNUG are not unioned into Synopsys Inc. This is not the overseas-chip map.
Why this page writes only Cadence Design Systems
Cadence Design Systems is the cadence.com San Jose company, and this page writes that full name; 656 Cadence-name collisions are out.
Synopsys Inc is 43 current against 11 jobs
The citeable seat is Synopsys Inc's 43 mapped hardware-assisted-verification / emulation seats versus 11 open jobs.
Synopsys Inc maps 43 current hardware-assisted-verification / emulation seats and 11 open jobs. The bench is there; the job book is still open.
Cadence Design Systems maps 4 open jobs in the same seat against 29 current. The citeable pair is Synopsys Inc 43 versus 11; 29 versus 4 comes in the next section.
The headline sum adds Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys Inc only: mapped current 29 + 43 = 72, mapped open jobs 4 + 11 = 15.
18 of 43 Synopsys Inc current seats are US. Company-wide EDA is not what this page maps.
Cadence Design Systems maps 29 current seats and 4 open jobs
Cadence Design Systems maps 29 current hardware-assisted-verification / emulation seats against 4 jobs. Thick bench, thin book. Scale is Synopsys Inc current, 43.
Of Synopsys 43: US 18, India 13, Israel 4
18 of 43 Synopsys Inc current seats are US.
Cadence Design Systems geography: US 16, India 8
Function slice
Title / function tokens: emulation, or hardware-assisted verification, or HAV, or Palladium, or Protium, or ZeBu, or FPGA prototyping, or systems verification. Place-and-route, synthesis, Coverity, Ansys, fab/OSAT, and company-wide EDA were not used. This is not the overseas-chip map.
Current and open jobs
The figures are profiles Metix maps as currently employed at that company name, and visible open jobs mapped to that name, not official headcount.
Names
Cadence Design Systems is the cadence.com San Jose company, and this page writes that full name; 656 Cadence-name collisions are out. Synopsys Inc is the synopsys.com company record; Armenia and India stubs, Coverity, and SNUG are not unioned.
As-of and source
As of August 26, 2026, 4:20 a.m. PT (8/26). Source: Metix AI. This page does not invent company-wide EDA totals and does not remake the overseas-chip map.
The two-vendor floor is last: 72 / 15
Cadence Design Systems maps 29 current seats and 4 open jobs. Headline sum, two names only: 72 current / 15 jobs.
| Company | Mapped current | Mapped open jobs | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Synopsys Inc | 43 | 11 | headline emulation seat |
| Cadence Design Systems | 29 | 4 | headline emulation seat |
| Headline sum | 72 | 15 | two EDA names only |
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The same methodology exports the emulation-seat mapped current and jobs. Company-wide EDA is not this page's slice.
Questions this report answers
- What is the Synopsys Inc 43-versus-11 hardware-assisted-verification seat?
- As of August 26, 2026, 4:20 a.m. PT, Synopsys Inc maps 43 current hardware-assisted-verification / emulation seats versus 11 open jobs in that seat. Cadence Design Systems maps 29 current / 4 jobs. Headline sum, two names only: 72 current / 15 jobs. These are Metix-mapped function-slice counts, not official headcount. Source: Metix AI.
- What does Cadence Design Systems map at 29 current and 4 jobs?
- Cadence Design Systems (cadence.com, San Jose) maps 29 current HAV / emulation seats and 4 open jobs. Synopsys Inc is 43 current versus 11 jobs. These are Metix-mapped counts, not official headcount, not company-wide EDA.
- Why is 72 / 15 not company-wide EDA and not the overseas-chip remake?
- 72 current / 15 jobs adds Cadence Design Systems 29 / 4 and Synopsys Inc 43 / 11 only. The slice is emulation / hardware-assisted verification / HAV, not P&R, synthesis, Coverity, Ansys, fab/OSAT, or company-wide EDA, and it is not a remake of the overseas-chip map.
- How should the Synopsys Inc 43 HAV / emulation map be cited?
- Metix AI Talent Intelligence, 2026-08-26. Synopsys 43 HAV Seats vs Cadence 29 | Metix AI. https://metix.ai/reports/series/cadence-synopsys-emulation-hav-2026
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