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Operator
ladies and gentlemen thank you for standing by and welcome to the synopsis earnings conference call for the first quarter fiscal year 2019 at this time all participants are in a listen only mode and then later we will conduct a question and answer session and instructions will be given at that time if you should require assistance during the call please press star followed by 0 today's call will last one hour Five minutes prior to the end of the call, we will announce the amount of time remaining in the conference. As a reminder, today's call is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Lisa Eubank, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Lisa Eubank
Thank you, Lori. Good afternoon, everyone. Hosting the call today are Art DeGias, Chairman and Co-CEO of Synopsys, and Trak Fahm, Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin, I'd like to remind everyone that during the course of this conference call, Synopsys will discuss forecasts, targets, and other forward-looking statements regarding the company and its financial results. While these statements represent our best current judgment about future results and performance as of today, our actual results and performance are subject to many risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from what we expect. In addition to any risks that we highlight during the call, important factors that may affect our future results are described in our most recent SEC reports and today's earnings press release. In addition, we will refer to non-GAAP financial measures during the discussion. Reconciliations to their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures and supplemental financial information can be found in today's earnings press release, financial supplement, and 8K. Also included in the financial supplement is detailed information around our long-term financial objectives, our transition to ASC 606, and newly disclosed results by segment. All of these items, plus the most recent investor presentation, are available on our website at www.synopsys.com. In addition, the prepared remarks will be posted at the site at the conclusion of the call. With that, I'll turn it over to Art Tagia.
Art Tagia
Good afternoon. Q1 was an excellent start to the year. Revenue was a record $820 million, and non-GAAP earnings per share were $1.08, both above our target ranges. Strength was across all product groups, including some large expanded renewals with Cornerstone semiconductor companies. We are confident in our outlook for the year and are reaffirming our guidance. Please note that this is the first quarter we are reporting two segments, semiconductor and system design and software integrity. In semiconductor and system design, results exceeded planned with strength across the board, augmented by timing of customer shipments. In software integrity, revenue was right on plan and operating margin continued to move towards sustainable profitability as we built for the long term in this high growth space. Trak will discuss the financials in more detail. Looking at the overall landscape, solid demand for our solutions has continued into 2019, notwithstanding the somewhat increased uncertainty in the market. While the global narrative focuses on geopolitical realities, electronics companies continue to design ever more complex chips and devices at an unabated speed. One notable driver, of course, is artificial intelligence. The development and proliferation of AI-dedicated chips brings great potential for us as the number of customers and designs is growing quickly. Competition among AI-specific companies is fierce and indeed for anyone incorporating AI into their chips with an intense race to market and a broad set of competing architectures. In addition, we're seeing an escalation of the security challenges in highly interconnected systems loaded with software. This is in part driven by the proliferation of data-intensive IoT devices and the emerging 5G connectivity standard, among other applications. The power of AI and the risks of security breaches require attention for all the products we use every day, from cars to mobile phones to smart homes to medical devices. Synopsys provides key technology in the midst of this evolving picture. Our results and outlook are not in spite of these challenges, but rather because of them. Our innovation and technologies become even more valuable to our customers when the stakes are so high. This is evident throughout our business. Our penetration in new and growing AI chip companies has been excellent, and this growth has been visible across our product groups. In EDA, our fusion technology and platform rollout is progressing well, and reports show increasingly strong results. IP also continued on a positive path, helped by a particularly strong competitive win rate as we deliver sophisticated building blocks in more and more difficult advanced nodes and challenging verticals. On top of this, our software integrity business continues to broaden its customer base and software security is increasingly recognized as a must-have in this era of product development. With that, let me share some product highlights starting with EDA. At the leaning edge of technology, we continue to see a steady push towards smaller geometries, as Synopsys continues to be the pioneer and the relied-upon supplier for well over 90% of 12-nanometer and below designs, all the way down to 5-, 3-, and 2-nanometer research and development. A particularly noteworthy accomplishment was the tape-out of the industry's first chip using next-generation gate-all-around transistors. This highly... is the result of an extensive collaboration with Samsung using a full fusion design platform flow from synthesis to place and route to sign off. Even at the earliest stages of process development, our unique position at the roots of silicon helps advance the most difficult research. The latest example of this is the recently announced collaboration with LTAP and IMTAP important industry innovators to drive modeling standards to 2 nanometer and beyond. Meanwhile, our breakthrough Fusion design platform continued to make great strides and generated strong results in Q1. You may recall that in November, we introduced not only our next generation synthesizer, Design Compiler NXT, but also a game-changing new product called Fusion Compiler. Fusion Compiler, which is architected on a unified data model, is the only system on the market that integrates synthesis and place and route and all the key elements of our gold standard sign-off technology. We accomplish this through a novel way of sharing code among the different functions, thus eliminating the need to move between tools. The value to the customer is better chip results such as size, speed, and power, in shorter and more predictable design time. For just one quarter on the market, we're seeing high initial demand and have rapidly grown the number of active customers, including many of the top 10 SOC design houses. Fusion Compiler was also recognized with a World Electronics Achievement Award for Product of the Year. When we pioneered the Fusion concept, our aspiration was to build a platform upon which we could roll out new differentiating capabilities for years to come. Stay tuned as we deliver even more exciting advances over the next 12 months. Now to verification, where our platform vision and technology execution have yielded excellent business and market share growth. Increasing chip and system complexity means huge verification challenges in terms of both speed and time to market. In addition, the growing desire to run software on top of systems that are still in construction is taxing the state of the art of simulation, emulation, and prototyping. Synopsys is at the forefront of enabling this to happen across software, simulation, emulation, FPGA-based, and virtual prototyping. Our verification continuum platform continues to drive excellent demand and competitive wins. This quarter we saw particularly strong growth in software-based verification at both traditional semiconductor companies and emerging system companies focused on their own in-house design. In emulation, revenue growth has been significant over the past two years, driven by a steadily expanding number of customers and average run rate. While hardware revenue is quite variable from period to period, driven by the timing and magnitude of specific orders, it's clear that strong industry demand continues. Our newly launched Zibu Server 4 product, the fastest, largest capacity emulator in the market, is generating broad-based adoption by customers, designing storage, networking, and AI chips, as well as a large global systems powerhouse. Orders for our HAPS FPGA-based prototyping solution were strong, particularly in 5G and automotive verticals. We're also seeing very promising progress with virtual prototyping in the automotive vertical benefiting semiconductor, tier one, and OEM customers. Verification is an example of a capability that works well on the cloud. While we've hosted tools on our own cloud for years, including our Xebu emulation system, we're continuing to make good progress tuning our solutions for cloud optimization. Interest is high. We have many customers who use their own or public clouds, some who are already working directly with us, and many others in proof of concept stages to see what structures may best work for them. Now moving to our IP products. We continue to deliver double-digit revenue growth with strength across the board, particularly in AI and automotive. Our AI-related differentiation was readily apparent in Q1, with wins from several very notable AI startups. As an example, Israel's Havana Labs achieved first-class silicon success on its high-performance AI processor SoC using our PCI Express 4.0 IP. In automotive, we had a number of major global wins, including AI automotive startup Fabu, which selected a broad portfolio of Synopsys automotive certified IP. Over the past 12 months, We license IP to more than 25 leading automotive semiconductor suppliers, covering a range of applications such as autonomous driving, infotainment, and connectivity gateways. Now to our software integrity group, which provides products and services to address code quality and security vulnerabilities early in the software development lifecycle. Over the last five years, we've systematically scaled this business and expected to reach 10% of total Synopsys revenue for fiscal 2019. Our investments in this high-growth market also substantially diversify our customer base into verticals such as financial services and medical, expand our reach in automotive, and increase our business with our well-established electronics customers. While the need for enhanced security measures has clearly increased, companies still struggle to develop effective strategies on how to get there, given the immense scope of the challenge. One example is automotive, arguably one of the most vulnerable industries due to the heavy toll that breaches can cause. A recent survey of global automotive manufacturers and suppliers found that 84% of automotive professionals have concerns that their organization's cybersecurity practices are not keeping pace with evolving technologies. and that most of them test less than half of the technology they develop for security vulnerabilities. Bolstered by the acquisition of Black Duck, which was fully integrated in Q1, we offer by far the most comprehensive portfolio of products and services in the market today to help companies solve these challenges, and we're not standing still. We're on track this year to deliver our integrated software integrity platform which will enable both software developers and management to build essential security and quality checks into their software development lifecycle. Stay tuned for an announcement soon. In closing, Q1 was a strong start to the year. We delivered excellent financial results and are reaffirming our outlook for fiscal 2019. Even with some caution around global markets, electronics companies continue to invest in critical chip and system designs, as well as immense amounts of sophisticated software. We are confident in both our near-term execution and our long-term prospects, given our position in the market. We are committed and well on track towards our mid- and long-term growth and margin expansion targets. With that, let me thank our customers for their business and our employees for their dedication and hard work in delivering yet another strong quarter. Track will now highlight the financial perspective.
Fabu
Thanks, Art. Good afternoon, everyone. Q1 was a great start to the year. Our financial results met or exceeded our targets and all key metrics as we continue to execute well across the board. Beginning with this quarter, we are also initiating segment reporting for Synopsys. The investments we made five years ago in software integrity has reached critical mass and grown to approximately 10% of sales. Reporting this segment separately allows us to better highlight the strengths of the two businesses we're building within and beyond our traditional semiconductor vertical. Our increasingly diverse customer base and our strong product portfolio, combined with our nearly 90% recurring revenue model, positions us well for success in periods of high demand as well as those of greater uncertainty. Reflecting this dynamic, we are reaffirming our guidance for the year. Before I begin with the first quarter results, I want to remind everyone that Synopsys adopted ASC Topic 606, the new accounting standard for revenue recognition, beginning in fiscal 2019. All results I provide today will be under ASC 606. For a summary of these results, as well as the equivalent financial metrics under ASC 605, please refer to our financial supplement. Now to the numbers. All comparisons are year-over-year unless otherwise specified. We generated total revenue of $820 million, a 7% increase over Q1 of last year, which included an extra week. Our growth reflects both strong demand and timing of customer shipments. Recall that ASC 606 treats additional quarterly revenue variability. Shireli 12-month revenue growth was strong across all product groups and geographies. These results reflect both the depth and breadth of our product portfolio, the increasing diversity of our customer base, and the impact of the investments we've made to drive long-term growth. Our contracted but unsatisfied performance obligations, or backlog, at the end of the quarter totaled $4.3 billion. Turning to our segments, semiconductor and system design revenue was $738 million, up 5% year-over-year, or just over 11%, excluding the extra week in 2018. Software integrity revenue grew 29% to $82 million, reaching approximately 10% of total revenue in the first quarter. Software integrity revenue for the trailing 12 months was $299 million, reflecting a strong leadership position in the application security market. Moving to expenses, total gap costs and expenses were $673 million, So the non-GAAP costs and expenses were $619 million, and consolidated non-GAAP operating margin was 24.5%. For the quarter, semiconductor and system design delivered an adjusted operating margin of 26.5%, while software integrity delivered an adjusted operating margin of 6.8%. Certain operating expenses, such as stock-based compensation, amortization of intangibles, and other expenses that are managed at the consolidated level have not been allocated to our segments. These items are described in further detail in our financial supplement. Operating margin will fluctuate quarter to quarter due to normal variability of revenue expenses. ASC 606 can further amplify this quarterly variance within a given year. For this reason, I want to reiterate that we manage the business with a strong emphasis on full year and multi-year performance. We are on track to achieve our margin objective for the year while driving towards our long-term goal of 26% in 2021 and higher 20s longer term. To wrap up the income statement, GAAP earnings per share were $1.01, non-GAAP earnings per share were $1.08. Turning to cash, operating cash outflow was $144 million reflecting our typical payout of variable compensation in Q1. We ended the quarter with a cash balance of $592 million and total debt of $542 million. Building on last year's significant share repurchases of $400 million, we repurchased $29 million of our stock in Q1. Since 2016, we've returned more than $1.2 billion to shareholders and expect buybacks to remain an important piece of our capital allocation strategy. Moving on to guidance, we remain confident in our outlook for the year and are reaffirming our annual targets. Our targets are based on ASC 606 Revenue Recognition Rules. For the second quarter, we expect revenue between $810 and $850 million, total gap costs and expenses between $682 and $708 million, Total non-GAAP costs and expenses between $620 and $640 million. Other income and expenses between $0 and $2 million. A non-GAAP normalized tax rate of 16%. Outstanding shares between $153 and $156 million. GAAP earnings of $71 to $79 per share. A non-GAAP earnings of $1.07 to $1.12 per share. For 2019, the full-year targets are revenue of $3.29 to $3.34 billion, total gap costs and expenses between $2.76 and $2.79 billion, total non-gap costs and expenses between $2.52 and $2.54 billion, resulting in a non-gap operating margin at the midpoint of just over 23.5%. Other income and expenses between minus 13 million and minus 9 million. A non-GAAP normalized tax rate of 16%. Outstanding shares between 153 and 156 million. GAAP earnings of $3.19 to $3.32 per share. Non-GAAP earnings of $4.20 to $4.27 per share. Cash flow from operations of approximately 700 million. and capital expenditures of approximately $270 million, which includes the build-out of our China facility, as well as the relocation of some Silicon Valley offices. We continue to expect CapEx to drop roughly in half in 2020. To wrap up, we executed very well in Q1, and we are reaffirming our guidance for the full year. Company-wide, we are delivering the robust revenue growth and driving profitability toward our long-term margin objectives. Both of our operating segments perform well, and our new segment reporting will provide investors with greater transparency into these results. Finally, we remain committed to a balanced capital allocation strategy, investing in the business while continuing to return capital to our shareholders as we focus on driving sustainable long-term value. And with that, I'll turn it over to the operator for questions.
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, if you would like to ask a question, please press star then 1 on your touchtone phone. You'll hear a tone indicating you've been placed into queue. You can remove yourself from the queue at any time by pressing the pound key. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up the handset before pressing the numbers. Once again, if you have a question, please press star then 1 at this time. Our first question from Rich Valera with Needham & Company. Please go ahead.
Rich
Thank you. Art, you mentioned a couple times in your prepared remarks about the uncertain macro environment, and a couple questions on that. First, has anything changed from last quarter you reported? And secondly, have you seen this uncertain macro impact your business in any way at this point, I guess particularly on the hardware side, which might be more susceptible to that kind of pressure?
Art Tagia
Thanks, Rich. Good question. It's always difficult to say if there's a big difference from one quarter to another because these quarters flow from one to the other in somewhat not distinct fashion. The way I would answer it, it has had no impact on our business. I do see that some of the reports looking at the forward look and the predictions for 2019 were a little softer than before, but they're also now a little bit better informed. And so this pertains to really the chip volume business more than anything else, so it doesn't really touch us as the design starts and the design difficulty has continued to grow. So as we have been in the past, while we are not immune completely to the ups and downs of the semiconductor industry, we are relatively touched lightly, and we're actually typically a safe haven during those times.
Rich
I appreciate that. And then, Trak, lots of nice new disclosure. A couple things. One, the backlog, which you gave, the $4.3 billion, is that something you're going to disclose more regularly? I've never heard you give a backlog number not at the end of the year, so just wondering, Why give that now? And then should we expect to be getting the operating margins of the two business segments on a go-forward basis? Love that you're now breaking out that software integrity for both, you know, revenue and presumably operating margins.
Fabu
Hi, Rich. On the first question on backlog, we thought it was important to highlight backlog starting this year because as part of the 606 transition, we will be including that and disclosing that in our 10Q. So, yes, you'll see that on a quarterly basis. With regards to the segment reporting, going forward as part of segment reporting, we will provide both revenue and operating margin for both those segments.
Rich
Great. Definitely appreciate that disclosure. Keep up the good work. Thank you. Thank you.
Operator
Our next question from Mitch Steeves with RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead.
Mitch
Hey, guys, thanks for taking my question, and thanks for all the new disclosures here. So just first, kind of on the revenue line, I know you guys already gave out a guidance, but this is kind of the third year straight where you're talking about a 2H deceleration, and that hasn't happened in the last couple years. So I guess instead of me, you know, asking about the conservatism, what's kind of embedded in 2H in terms of the guidance?
Fabu
Well, Mitch, I think I would characterize it that way. We actually had a great start to the year with Q1. And given our outlook for Q2, to us, the latest balance forecast, then we enter the year. And, frankly, from that perspective, I'm feeling optimistic and more confident in the outlook that we have. That's why we reaffirmed the guidance for the full year.
Mitch
Got it. And then the second one is on the cash flows. If I heard that correctly, you said that the cap actually come down in half. Does that kind of give you an implied, I guess, $900 million-plus in cash flow for 2020?
Fabu
Well, it's too early to guide on 2020 at this point. We just wanted to give an indication that the CapEx spend for this year is unusually high because of the few items that we highlighted.
Mitch
Okay, got it. And then just last one, just on the software integrity margins. So I think there's kind of a bold case here where that's going to be higher than your corporate average long term. Is there any reason why that wouldn't be the case if I look out five or 10 years?
Fabu
But we don't want to go out that far. I guess let me abstract that first. At the high list level, we are committed to 26% operating margins in 2021. We will be driving improvements across all areas, both on in both segments and across all areas of the business. So you should see improvements there. At this point, you know, we're pleased to start off the quarter with profitability in software integrity. But it's a new market for us that's growing, and we'll continue to invest in building up the software integrity platform, as well as scaling up that business. So it will be a lumpy quarter to quarter. But I think long term, the trend that we've seen over the last five years should continue.
Mitch
Okay, perfect. Great quarter, guys.
Fabu
Thank you. Thank you.
Operator
And we go next to Sterling Audi with J.P. Morgan. Please go ahead.
spk09
Great. Thanks. Hi, guys. This is actually Jackson Aderon for Sterling tonight. Thanks for taking our question. You're welcome. First one, there's been something on investors' minds today, I guess since last night. Cadence announced a significant new win with a marquee North American semiconductor company. And so based on their description, it's led to some investors concluding that that company that they mentioned last night may be Intel. Since Intel is your largest customer, do you have any comment on what's happening there, any share shifts that you may be seeing?
Art Tagia
Well, we never comment about individual customers, and Intel has definitely been a very good partner and customer to us. And in general, it sounds like both companies have done extremely well recently, and I hope that bodes well for the overall market. So, yes, we do compete in many places, but at the same time, our objectives are to do well, and I think we just did that this quarter.
spk09
Okay. All right, fair enough. And then a quick follow-up. Was there any maybe buying behavior, particularly in the emulation space, that maybe drove some budget flush spending around the calendar year end in December, where you maybe saw some pull forward of emulation purchases?
Art Tagia
No, we didn't see any of that. And a number of people have asked us that question also in the context of China, and we didn't really see that. And so I think we're seeing Q1 as just a continuation of now quite a number of good quarters and of a business that is both diversified, well-balanced, and growing well. Okay. All right. Thank you. You're welcome.
Operator
We have a question from Monica Garg with KeyBank. Please go ahead.
Monica Garg
Hi. Thanks for taking my question. First is, I mean, you have a very strong beat in Q1, revenue by $20 million almost, EPS $0.10. I guess why the upside not flowing to yearly guidance, both for revenue and EPS?
Fabu
Well, Monica, this is Track. As I said earlier, it's a good start for the year. The results were a combination of us executing very well and growing the business. Some of it is timing in terms of customer deliveries. And frankly, there's a lot of business left to book for the full year. We feel good about the outlook, and it's nice to have the first half look pretty secure. All right.
Monica Garg
And then I think last quarter or before that, you said that you have a leadership position in emulation. Could you maybe say if that still holds true?
Art Tagia
Well, our emulation has done extremely well. And this is a domain that, and this is, I think, good news for many, that continues to grow well because the demand around very difficult problems for emulation as an acceleration to simulation is high. In addition, Synopsys has focused on a special case that is extremely important, which is, can you run software on hardware that doesn't quite exist yet, i.e., hardware that you mock up in an emulator? And the answer is yes. And more and more customers report that that is absolutely crucial because More often than not, when the product is ready, the software is not, and you cannot go to market. And that is why our area has done particularly well. And while these numbers are not individually disclosed, we are certainly convinced that we are the market leader in this area.
Monica Garg
Then Art, you provided some commentary regarding the verification usage in cloud, but Maybe could you talk about how ready you think Synapse solutions are for usage in the cloud? Are you seeing interest from not only from verification for other products as well?
Art Tagia
So let me go backwards on the question. The answer is yes. There are a number of other tools that are also used in the cloud. Typically things that require or can benefit from big bursts of computation where a user may not want to buy their own computers just for the burst period. And so these type of tools tend to be optimized a little bit differently so that they can run more easily in a public cloud or various forms of private clouds. And so there's quite a bit of interest in that. I don't think that things are completely black and white, though, meaning that there are a lot of practical issues that have to be overcome to make things run very well. And there are steady advances on making the various forms of software do that effectively so that customers can essentially have a more flexible spending on hardware when they want it.
Monica Garg
Thank you so much.
Art Tagia
You're welcome.
Operator
Our next question from Tom Diffley with DA Davidson. Please go ahead.
Tom Diffley
Yes, good afternoon. I guess first track, I was wondering if any of the strength you saw in the quarter was driven by concerns at Maybe there would be a worsening of a trade war and some of the customers wanted to buy ahead of that?
Fabu
We haven't seen a change in the behavior of having that affect our revenues.
Tom Diffley
Okay.
Fabu
As I said, it's pretty balanced in terms of growth as well as, you know, to a lesser degree, timing of customer contracts.
Tom Diffley
Okay. And then maybe just a big picture question for Art. How do you look at the EDA growth when you have a slowing of Moore's Law, but then you have an increase in the use of new materials and technologies along the way? I mean, on balance, does that scenario provide growth for EDA or stability? How do you look at that?
Art Tagia
You know, it almost feels like a question that you could have asked in 1997 and 2007 and again. And again, I don't want to sidestep at all the fact that the complexity of Moore's Law is increasing, and the complexity itself is good for us, but with the complexity, of course, comes an economic equation that will, over time, bring some changes for customers. And so at this point in time, though, the demand for really advanced chips is quite strong. And that I have illuminated many times by saying that we have entered a whole new phase of what electronics can do in most products and actually in most verticals, and that is the age of cognition or artificial intelligence, where the early results, and they have to be called early because they're literally just three, four years old now, are very promising, but the demand for dramatically more computation is unabated. And so I think the push will continue, and the challenge is to continue with it. And I think for a company such as ourselves, that's a good thing because that is our specialty. And by the way, this reaches all the way down to the deep physics of Moore's Law, where we do excellent business in providing simulation tools that allow to check out how a brand-new transistor, such as, let's say, the Gator all-around type models, will function before you even manufacture them. So the food chain of Moore's Law is actually pretty long.
Tom Diffley
Maybe just to bring the food chain down a little further, maybe up a little further, if you look at advanced packaging, taking over some of the increases in more than Moore's Law, if you will, how does that benefit you from an EDA company, and is it meaningful?
Art Tagia
Excellent question, because this is a question that has actually also had sort of ups and downs multiple times in the last couple of decades. Every time that there was sort of a hint that Moore's Law was coming to an abrupt end, the solution was, well, instead of putting things in one chip, let's put it into multiple chips, maybe stack those chips on top of each other. And the technologies have actually advanced substantially to make that possible, but they're not simple in their own right. meaning that if you can still put it in one chip, that is often easier, both economically and technically. Having said that, yes, there is progress in various forms of packaging and stacking of chips, and we think that that will continue to grow over the years to come. And there, too, sophisticated EDA tools such as ours will be absolutely necessary to do that. So it sounds like these are very different things, but from my perspective, it's just a continuation of Whatever is the best method to deliver a lot of functionality electronically, we will be full focused on.
Tom Diffley
Okay, great. Thanks for your time.
Art Tagia
You're welcome.
Operator
As a reminder, if you have additional questions, you may get into the queue by pressing star then 1 on the phone keypad. We'll go next to Jay Vlieschauer with Griffin Securities. Please go ahead.
Jay Vlieschauer
Thank you, Art. Let me start with you regarding SIG and then a backlog question for TRAC. So anticipation of the SIG platform that you've been alluding to, could you talk about what the customer behavior looks like thus far with regard to both the mix of SIG tools that they're buying and services engagements that you're providing or undertaking for SIG? So in the case of the product, for example, Are customers buying multiple solutions? Are they buying not just Coverity, not just the duck, but multiple products? And then with regard to the services, would you regard those as leading, coincident, or lagging indicators for the SIG business? And might the platform perhaps mitigate how services-intensive that business might be and therefore help margins over time?
Art Tagia
Well, it's an excellent question because we, of course, entered this market as it was just coming about. It's a highly in-development market, many different point solutions, and we were fortunate enough to acquire, I believe, some of the very best ones. Why do I describe it in that fashion? Because if you're sitting on the user side, you may have specific problems for which you buy a very specific point tool and may be happy with that. If you're sitting a little bit closer to the IT management of a company that has many users, this is a horror scenario because now you have all these point tools from all these individual, often small companies, often companies that do not have a longevity in being able to support you, may disappear, may get acquired. And so we noticed already now I would say a couple of years ago that a number of companies were positively surprised when they found out that of some of the point tools we had acquired, behind that was a company like Synopsys that were actually substantial, had a long history, and therefore was probably stable. If you now amend that by the fact that a platform really is a mechanism to bring multiple point tools together, to make them look and feel the same, be able to share data between the tools, have reports that can both work for the individual user, but also for the management to get good overview. You can see how, at a minimum, this brings a simplification for the people that have to manage the utilization of all of this in large companies, often companies where their core competence is not the software, but they're highly dependent on some sets of software that need to be secure and high quality. In that context, the service question is extremely appropriate. And we had said when we acquired it that initially it would give us access to precisely the higher level management that needed help in plotting their strategies on how to go about a security strategy around the software. And in that sense, that would be in your leading category. Meanwhile, there's a number of services that we provide where On a regular basis, we do certain checks for customers. That would be in the coincidental category. And then if there are issues that pop up at a customer that suddenly they don't know what to do, there that would be lagging, but we certainly can provide help in a situation where certainly an urgency comes up. So maybe summarizing this somewhat long monologue here is that we have a number of puzzle pieces that are now being put together And out of that, I think, comes both a stronger position for us, a more effective utilization on the part of the customer, and the opportunity to continually add incremental value to the platform.
Jay Vlieschauer
For TRAC, you grew your backlog, and thank you for that, Art. That was a good explanation. For TRAC, you grew your backlog a quarter by the amount that you grew your backlog for all of fiscal 18, about $300 million. So assuming the usual three-year runoff or conversion, that isn't translating into any incremental revenues relative to guns for this year?
Fabu
Jay, we want to comment on how to extrapolate the backlog. We're going to disclose that so you'll see that trend over time. But given that we will have different contracts renew at different points in time, I think it would be too difficult to really translate that to the health of the business. Overall, I think we'll continue to refer you back to run rate growth in the business and look at that trend. And that tends to be – that has been up. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Jerry.
Operator
We have a question from Josh Hilton with Barenberg Capital Markets. Please go ahead.
Josh Hilton
Thanks for taking my questions. Have you seen increased stickiness of customers as the fusion offering integrates many steps of the design flow that may have been accomplished with numerous products in the past?
Art Tagia
It is too early to be able to check on stickiness because that is, by definition, something over a long period of time. But the expectation would be absolutely yes, meaning that one of the key reasons customers will use this is because on a number of cases, they will get better results. They will get the better results in a more predictable fashion and in a shorter amount of time. And so in that sense, it's really a continuation of our objectives for the last 30 years, which is provide better and better tools for more and more difficult chips. And so the early adoption has been very positive. We are maturing things rapidly. We're adding already new capabilities. Some of those will be announced in the not-too-distant future. And so it is definitely at the core of our platform for the next decade.
Josh Hilton
Thanks. And then second question, what is software integrity's current exposure to auto, and then how big is the potential auto plan for software integrity?
Art Tagia
You know, I don't know the exact number, but I can tell you that we've had a number of very exciting automotive, not only interactions, but actually substantial business closures. And just to give a little color to that, in some cases they have been connected somewhat to the rest of our business as we have moved into automotive. But in a number of cases, it's also that the automotive field has discovered, so to speak, that software is a major issue. And when I say the automotive industry, I mean the OEM, so the actual car manufacturers. And this is interesting from a different perspective. They have in the last 100 years or so relied on an enormously complex supplier chain, and now suddenly the concerns are directly at their door. Because if they move into adding way more software, and already the advanced cars have about 100 million lines of code, way more software in order to do autonomous driving or any other form of assisted driving, the risk of vulnerability is actually very, very costly. And so we have a number of customers that have now done large deals with us. We expect those to continue to grow over time. And interestingly enough, as we're coming via the software integrity group sort of down from the software, we're moving up from the hardware with the various forms of virtual prototyping. And this is exactly part of the strategic picture that we have seen now for a number of years, which is this pincer movement around everything is sitting on the intersection of hardware and software. And that's where the value will be created.
Josh Hilton
Thank you very much.
Art Tagia
Thank you.
Operator
And I'll turn it back to our speakers for any closing comments.
Art Tagia
Well, with that, thank you very much for attending this call. We completed a strong first quarter in the year and thus have renewed confidence in the rest of the year. And we're, as usual, thankful for both your questions and your attention to our company. Have a good rest of the afternoon.
Operator
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