ImSym - Imaging System Simulator Offers
Accuracy, Accelerated Time-to-Market, and Enhanced Team
Collaboration
Highlights
- Industry's only system-level imaging virtual prototyping
platform
- Integrates the trusted accuracy of Synopsys' CODE V and
LightTools
- Significantly reduces the time required for imaging system
conceptualization
- Features a unified simulation environment and Python interfaces
for streamlined teamwork and custom workflows
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 10,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:
SNPS) today announced the launch of ImSym – Imaging System
Simulator, a groundbreaking virtual prototyping platform for
imaging systems, encompassing lenses, sensors, and image signal
processors (ISPs). By integrating components of the imaging chain
into a comprehensive end-to-end simulation platform, ImSym enables
tailored optimizations of any imaging system, facilitates team
collaboration, and dramatically reduces the risks of issues in
later development stages. With accuracy powered by industry-proven
CODE V® and LightTools® optical design software and a quantitative
end-to-end simulation flow, ImSym reduces the need for physical
prototypes and delivers simulations that can directly translate
into production-ready designs.
"In today's competitive markets for imaging products, the
ability to comprehensively and accurately prototype imaging systems
virtually is a game-changer," said Emilie Viasnoff, head of Optical
Solutions at Synopsys. "ImSym embodies our commitment to innovation
by offering a comprehensive, intuitive, and physics-based software
solution for imaging system design and validation. After decades at
the forefront of software for optical design, we are proud to
expand our trusted solutions into the virtual prototyping
world."
"ImSym represents a significant advancement in optical system
simulation by integrating the strengths of CODE V imaging design
software with the powerful non-sequential capabilities of
LightTools illumination design software," said Olga Resnik, co-founder of the JOYA Team. "ImSym
allows users to seamlessly evaluate full system performance, which
is crucial for many applications, particularly in augmented reality
design. For the first time, system engineers can simulate all
aspects of an imaging system within a unified platform and easily
collaborate with experts from multiple disciplines."
Accelerates Imaging System Cycles
Traditionally, optical system builders have relied on one or
more physical prototypes to optimize and confirm system
performance. These physical prototypes can provide performance
assurances, such as image quality assessment, but require
significant build times and expenses.
ImSym introduces a dramatically new and intuitive paradigm by
offering a comprehensive simulation of the entire imaging chain.
ImSym presents users with a series of simulated images at each step
in the imaging chain, enabling image quality assessment throughout
the simulation flow. This enables optical system builders to
quickly get the system right the first time. ImSym models
geometric, aberration, and diffraction effects and simulates scene
stray light and additive stray light sources. Additionally, ImSym
models detector effects on imaging with radiometric accuracy and
processes detected images with custom or built-in image and signal
processing. ImSym simulates all imaging system components using
physics to deliver a reliable solution.
By shifting the majority of imaging system development into
virtual prototyping, ImSym can reduce development time from weeks
to days, days to hours, and hours into minutes to achieve up to 60
times more efficiency than traditional methods.
Leading-Edge Interface Enhances Team Collaboration
ImSym provides a unified design environment supporting real-time
updates and version control, ensuring all team members stay in
sync. By encapsulating the entire imaging chain, domain
experts—such as system engineers, lens designers, stray light
analysts, ISP and detector engineers—can communicate and coordinate
effectively, understanding the impact of all system components on
overall performance.
The platform features an intuitive interface that guides users
through each step of developing an imaging virtual prototype.
Additionally, a Python programming language interface enables users
to automate ImSym processes and customize ISP capabilities,
supporting workflows tailored to users' unique requirements.
Availability and Resources
ImSym is available now to customers worldwide.
- Visit the ImSym product page:
https://www.synopsys.com/optical-solutions/imsym.html
- Register to attend the ImSym webinar:
https://www.synopsys.com/optical-solutions/support/training/imsym-introduction.html
About Synopsys
Catalyzing the era of pervasive
intelligence, Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) delivers trusted and
comprehensive silicon to systems design solutions, from electronic
design automation to silicon IP and system verification and
validation. We partner closely with semiconductor and systems
customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their
R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that
ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow. Learn more
at www.synopsys.com.
Editorial Contact
Kelli
Wheeler
Synopsys, Inc.
(650) 584-5000
corp-pr@synopsys.com
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