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Release Specific Support

Detailed information about our foundation level support

In order to ensure that customers can maintain a consistent compute platform environment for running our current tools, Synopsys maintains platform stability for each 9-month release foundation. System requirements for each foundation release are listed below.

X-Foundation (2025.06, 2025.09, 2025.12)

W-Foundation (2024.09, 2024.12, 2025.03)

V-Foundation (2023.09, 2023.12, 2024.03, 2024.06)

U-Foundation (2022.12, 2023.03, 2023.06)

T-Foundation (2022.03, 2022.06, 2022.09)

S-Foundation (2021.06, 2021.09, 2021.12)

R-Foundation (2020.09, 2020.12, 2021.03)

Q-Foundation (2019.12, 2020.03, 2020.06)

P-Foundation (2019.03, 2019.06, 2019.09)

O-Foundation (2018.06, 2018.09, 2018.12)

N-Foundation (2017.09, 2017.12, 2018.03)

M-Foundation (2016.12, 2017.03, 2017.06)