Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS) is an American company headquarted in Mountain View, California, which is a global leader in software for electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor intellectual property (IP). Synopsys provides their costumers with solutions that accelerate innovation, allowing their clients to address the challenges of designing integrated circuits and bring their products to market faster with lower costs and schedule risks.

In its portfolio, Synopsys provides interface IP cores for multimedia systems as HDMI and MHL solutions, JPEG encoders/decoders and MIPI interfaces. For these systems, but also to any others that deal with video transmission or processing, real-time color space conversion of the video stream can be a interesting feature that adds value to the final product and increases its interoperability capabilities.