Black Duck vs Semmle

Synopsys, Inc., an American company, is the leading company by sales in the Electronic Design Automation industry. Synopsys' first and best-known product is Design Compiler, a logic-synthesis tool. Synopsys offers a wide range of other products used in the design of an application-specific integrated circuit. Products include logic synthesis, behavioral synthesis, place and route, static timing analysis, formal verification, HDL simulators as well as transistor-level circuit simulation. The simulators include development and debugging environments which assist in the design of the logic for chips and computer systems.

Semmle Limited is a British software metrics company known for a product originally called SemmleCode, a static software analysis package. It can be used to find programming bug patterns, to compute software metrics, and to enforce coding conventions. All these tasks can be formulated as queries in an object-oriented query language named.QL. The company is headquartered in Blue Boar Court, Alfred Street, central Oxford, England.