EDA
System
IP
SolvNetPlus
Training & Education
What's New
ASIP eUpdate February 2026
Read the latest ASIP eUpdate newsletter to learn about the enhancements made in the X-2025.12 ASIP Designer™ release to improve the user experience and increase productivity in processor modeling. These enhancements include language server support for nML, new convenient features of the ASIP extension for Visual Studio Code, and a more efficient integration of the runtime C library in processor models.
Enabling the Design of Multicore SoCs with Application-Specific Processors
For applications requiring highly specialized processing, application-specific instruction-set processors (ASIPs) deliver greater computational efficiencies than general purpose processors and more flexibility than fixed-function RTL designs. ASIP Designer™ is the leading tool solution for creating ASIPs, which might be custom processors or programmable hardware accelerators that serve in next-generation SoCs, particularly where re-programmability provides a key competitive advantage. ASIP Designer enables designers to:
- Create customized processing elements that are programmable in C
- Adjust performance-sensitive algorithms without requiring silicon respins
- Differentiate products using their own proprietary algorithmic IP
- Reduce schedule risk and improve time-to-market using a proven, highly automated tool approach
Click here to learn more about the ASIP Designer product
A subset of the ASIP Designer technology is included in the ASIP Programmer™ product, which provides a professional software development kit (SDK) for ASIPs that have been designed with ASIP Designer.
Click here to learn more about the ASIP Programmer product
Video: Introduction to ASIP Designer
Synopsys ASIP Designer: The efficient way to design, implement, program and verify your custom processor.
Learn From The Experts
ASIP Designer Tutorial Videos
Learn about the ASIP Designer methodology for various application domains, including tool demos.
ASIP Designer Online Training
Take a deep dive into the processor modeling concepts and tool flows of ASIP Designer.
Past ASIP Events
Access recordings of past ASIP Designer seminars and webinars on demand.
Example Models
ASIP Designer comes with an extensive library of example models that can be used as a starting point for architectural exploration and customer-specific production ASIP designs, or just can be leveraged as reference implementation for selected architectural processor features.
All these example models come in source code with a fully operational toolset, SDK, baseline verification environment and are ready for push-the-button synthesizable RTL generation.
Downloads
Resources
Designing ASIPs with Confidence: A Perspective on the Verification of Application Specific Instruction Set Processors
Softening Hardware: Using Application-Specific Processors to Optimize Modern SoC Designs
Under the Hood of ASIP Designer: Application-Specific Processor Design Made Possible by Tool Automation