<PAGE>
                                  
         As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
                           on July 26, 1996

                                                Registration No. _________

==========================================================================

                  SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                        Washington, D. C. 20549

                               FORM S-8

                     REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
                      THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                        VIEWLOGIC SYSTEMS, INC.
          (Exact name of issuer as specified in its charter)

            DELAWARE                                 04-2830649
 (State or other jurisdiction of                  (I.R.S.Employer
   incorporation or organization)              Identification  Number)

       293 BOSTON POST ROAD WEST, MARLBORO, MASSACHUSETTS 01752
         (Address of Principal Executive Offices)  (Zip Code)

                   1996 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
                       (Full title of the Plan)

                      PETER T. JOHNSON, SECRETARY
                        VIEWLOGIC SYSTEMS, INC.
                       293 BOSTON POST ROAD WEST
                     MARLBORO, MASSACHUSETTS 01752
                (Name and address of agent for service)

                            (508) 480-0881
     (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

=========================================================================

                    CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

  Title of                         Proposed          Proposed          Amount of
Securities to     Amount to    Maximum Offering  Maximum Aggregate  Registration
be Registered   be Registered   Price Per Share    Offering Price        Fee
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Stock,     600,000          $12.07(1)        $7,242,000(1)      2498.00
$.01 par value    shares
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(1)  Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration
     fee, and based upon the average of the high and low prices of the
     Common Stock on the NASDAQ National Market System on July 24, 1996 
     in accordance with Rules 457(c) and 457(h) of the Securities Act of 1933.

                             PAGE 1 OF 10 PAGES

<PAGE>

PART I.  INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

            The information required by Part I is included in documents
sent or given to participating employees of the 1996 Employee Stock
Purchase Plan of Viewlogic Systems, Inc. (the "Registrant") pursuant to
Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").

                                   
PART II.  INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

      Item 3.  Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference
               -----------------------------------------------

            The following documents, which are filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") are incorporated
in this Registration Statement by reference:

            (1)   The Registrant's latest annual report filed pursuant
      to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
      1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or the latest prospectus
      filed pursuant to Rule 424(b), or otherwise, under the
      Securities Act that contains audited financial statements for the
      registrant's latest fiscal year for which such statements have
      been filed.
      
            (2)   All other reports filed pursuant to Sections 13(a) or
      15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year
      covered by the document referred to in (1) above.
      
            (3)   The description of the common stock of the
      Registrant, $.01 par value per share (the "Common Stock"),
      contained in a Registration Statement filed under the Exchange
      Act, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of
      updating such description.
      
            All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant
to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, and 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior to
the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all
shares of common stock offered hereby have been sold or which
deregisters all shares of common stock then remaining unsold, shall be
deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be part hereof
from the date of the filing of such documents.

      Item 4.  Description of Securities
               -------------------------

            Not applicable.

      Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
               --------------------------------------
            Not applicable.

                                     2

<PAGE>

      Item 6.  Indemnification
               ---------------
 
            ARTICLE NINTH of the Company's Restated Certificate
            of Incorporation, as amended (the "Certificate"), sets
            forth the extent to which officers and directors of the
            Company may be indemnified against any liabilities which
            they may incur in their capacities as directors or officers
            of the Company.  The Certificate provides that the Company
            shall, to the fullest extent permitted by Section 145 of
            the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware,
            indemnify any director or officer against any expenses,
            liabilities or other matters referred to in or covered by
            that Section.  The indemnification is not exclusive of any
            other rights to which the officers or directors may be
            entitled under any by-law, agreement or vote of
            stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise,
            continues after such person has ceased to be a director or
            officer and inures to the benefit of such person's heirs,
            executors and administrators.  The indemnification provided
            by the Certificate specifically includes indemnification of
            all officers and directors who are deemed fiduciaries under
            any employee benefit plan and any action taken or omitted
            by such officer or director with respect to an employee
            benefit plan reasonably believed by such person to be in
            the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the
            plan shall be deemed to be for a purpose which is not
            opposed to the best interests of the Company.
            
            The Company has a directors and officers liability policy
            that insures the Company's officers and directors against
            certain liabilities.
            
      Item 7.  Exemption from Registration Claimed
               -----------------------------------
            Not applicable.

      Item 8.  Exhibits
               --------
            The Exhibit Index immediately preceding the exhibits is
      incorporated herein by reference.

                                    3

<PAGE>

      Item 9.  Undertakings
               ------------
            1.    The Registrant hereby undertakes:

                  (a)   To file, during any period in which offers or
      sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this
      Registration Statement:
      
                       (i)    To include any prospectus required by
      section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;
      
                      (ii)    To reflect in the prospectus any facts or
      events arising after the effective date of the Registration
      Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof)
      which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental
      change in the information set forth in the Registration
      Statement;
      
                     (iii)    To include any material information with
      respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in
      the Registration Statement or any material change to such
      information in the Registration Statement;
      
           provided, however that paragraphs (i) and (ii) do not apply
      if the Registration Statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8, and the
      information required to be included in a post-effective amendment
      by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the
      Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
      Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the
      Registration Statement.
      
                  (b)   That, for the purpose of determining any
      liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective
      amendment shall be deemed to be a new Registration Statement
      relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of
      such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
      bona fide offering thereof.
      
                  (c)   To remove from registration by means of a post-
      effective amendment any of the securities being registered which
      remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
      
      2.  The Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d)
of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee
benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange
Act) that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement
shall be deemed to be a new Registration Statement relating to the
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that
time shall be deemed to be in the initial bona fide offering thereof.


                                   4
<PAGE>

      3.  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or
otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the
Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against
public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore,
unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification against
such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the
Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding)
is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will,
unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by
controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction
the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the
final adjudication of such issue.

                                  5
<PAGE>
 

                              SIGNATURES

      Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the
registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it
meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly
caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Marlboro,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the 26th day of July, 1996.


                                          VIEWLOGIC SYSTEMS, INC.


                                          By:/s/ Alain J. Hanover
                                             --------------------------
                                             Alain J. Hanover
                                             Chairman of the Board of
                                             Directors and
                                             Chief Executive Officer




                           POWER OF ATTORNEY

      We, the undersigned officers and directors of Viewlogic Systems,
Inc. hereby severally constitute Alain J. Hanover, Ronald R. Benanto
and Peter T. Johnson, and each of them singly, our true and lawful
attorneys with full power to them, and each of them singly, to sign for
us and in our names in the capacities indicated below, the Registration
Statement on Form S-8 filed herewith and any and all subsequent
amendments to said Registration Statement, and generally to do all such
things in our names and behalf in our capacities as officers and
directors to enable Viewlogic Systems, Inc. to comply with all
requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby
ratifying and confirming our signatures as they may be signed by said
attorneys, or any of them, to said Registration Statement and any and
all amendments thereto.

                                  6
<PAGE>

      Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons
in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Signature                      Title
- ---------                      -----

/s/ Alain J. Hanover           Chief Executive Officer       )
Alain J. Hanover               and Chairman of the Board     )
                               (principal executive officer) )
                                                             )
                                                             )
/s/ Ronald R. Benanto          Senior Vice President of      )
Ronald R. Benanto              Finance, Chief Financial      )
                               Officer and Treasurer         )
                               (principal financial and      )
                               accounting officer)           )
                                                             )
                                                             )
/s/ William J. Herman          President and Director        )
William J. Herman                                            )
                                                             )
                                                             )
                               Director                      )   July 26, 1996
Stanley F. Alfeld                                            )
                                                             )
                                                             )
/s/ Gregory T. George          Director                      )
Gregory T. George                                            )
                                                             )
                                                             )
/s/ Gordon Hoffman             Director                      )
Gordon Hoffman                                               )
                                                             )
                                                             )
/s/ Larry E. Reeder            Director                      )
Larry E. Reeder                                              )
                                                             )
                                                             )
/s/ Gregory A. White           Director                      )
Gregory A White                                              )
                                                             )
                                                             )
/s/ Allyn C. Woodward, Jr.     Director                      )
Allyn C. Woodward, Jr.                                       )

                                   7
<PAGE>

                              EXHIBIT INDEX
                              -------------

Exhibit
Number       Description                                         Page
- -------      -----------                                         ----
   5         Opinion of Hale and Dorr                            9
  23.1       Consent of Hale and Dorr (included in Exhibit 5)    9
  23.2       Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP (Boston)           10
  25         Power of Attorney (see page 6 of this               6
               Registration Statement)
             

                                   8
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
                           on July 26, 1996

                                                Registration No. _________

==========================================================================

                  SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                        Washington, D. C. 20549

                               FORM S-8

                     REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
                      THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                        VIEWLOGIC SYSTEMS, INC.
          (Exact name of issuer as specified in its charter)

            DELAWARE                                 04-2830649
 (State or other jurisdiction of                  (I.R.S.Employer
   incorporation or organization)              Identification  Number)

       293 BOSTON POST ROAD WEST, MARLBORO, MASSACHUSETTS 01752
         (Address of Principal Executive Offices)  (Zip Code)

                   1996 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
                       (Full title of the Plan)

                      PETER T. JOHNSON, SECRETARY
                        VIEWLOGIC SYSTEMS, INC.
                       293 BOSTON POST ROAD WEST
                     MARLBORO, MASSACHUSETTS 01752
                (Name and address of agent for service)

                            (508) 480-0881
     (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

=========================================================================

                    CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

  Title of                         Proposed          Proposed          Amount of
Securities to     Amount to    Maximum Offering  Maximum Aggregate  Registration
be Registered   be Registered   Price Per Share    Offering Price        Fee
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Stock,     600,000          $12.07(1)        $7,242,000(1)      2498.00
$.01 par value    shares
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(1)  Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration
     fee, and based upon the average of the high and low prices of the
     Common Stock on the NASDAQ National Market System on July 24, 1996 
     in accordance with Rules 457(c) and 457(h) of the Securities Act of 1933.

                             PAGE 1 OF 10 PAGES
PART I.  INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

            The information required by Part I is included in documents
sent or given to participating employees of the 1996 Employee Stock
Purchase Plan of Viewlogic Systems, Inc. (the "Registrant") pursuant to
Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").

                                   
PART II.  INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

      Item 3.  Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference
               -----------------------------------------------

            The following documents, which are filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") are incorporated
in this Registration Statement by reference:

            (1)   The Registrant's latest annual report filed pursuant
      to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
      1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or the latest prospectus
      filed pursuant to Rule 424(b), or otherwise, under the
      Securities Act that contains audited financial statements for the
      registrant's latest fiscal year for which such statements have
      been filed.
      
            (2)   All other reports filed pursuant to Sections 13(a) or
      15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year
      covered by the document referred to in (1) above.
      
            (3)   The description of the common stock of the
      Registrant, $.01 par value per share (the "Common Stock"),
      contained in a Registration Statement filed under the Exchange
      Act, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of
      updating such description.
      
            All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant
to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, and 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior to
the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all
shares of common stock offered hereby have been sold or which
deregisters all shares of common stock then remaining unsold, shall be
deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be part hereof
from the date of the filing of such documents.

      Item 4.  Description of Securities
               -------------------------

            Not applicable.

      Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
               --------------------------------------
            Not applicable.

                                     2
Item 6.  Indemnification
               ---------------
 
            ARTICLE NINTH of the Company's Restated Certificate
            of Incorporation, as amended (the "Certificate"), sets
            forth the extent to which officers and directors of the
            Company may be indemnified against any liabilities which
            they may incur in their capacities as directors or officers
            of the Company.  The Certificate provides that the Company
            shall, to the fullest extent permitted by Section 145 of
            the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware,
            indemnify any director or officer against any expenses,
            liabilities or other matters referred to in or covered by
            that Section.  The indemnification is not exclusive of any
            other rights to which the officers or directors may be
            entitled under any by-law, agreement or vote of
            stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise,
            continues after such person has ceased to be a director or
            officer and inures to the benefit of such person's heirs,
            executors and administrators.  The indemnification provided
            by the Certificate specifically includes indemnification of
            all officers and directors who are deemed fiduciaries under
            any employee benefit plan and any action taken or omitted
            by such officer or director with respect to an employee
            benefit plan reasonably believed by such person to be in
            the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the
            plan shall be deemed to be for a purpose which is not
            opposed to the best interests of the Company.
            
            The Company has a directors and officers liability policy
            that insures the Company's officers and directors against
            certain liabilities.
            
      Item 7.  Exemption from Registration Claimed
               -----------------------------------
            Not applicable.

      Item 8.  Exhibits
               --------
            The Exhibit Index immediately preceding the exhibits is
      incorporated herein by reference.

                                    3
Item 9.  Undertakings
               ------------
            1.    The Registrant hereby undertakes:

                  (a)   To file, during any period in which offers or
      sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this
      Registration Statement:
      
                       (i)    To include any prospectus required by
      section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;
      
                      (ii)    To reflect in the prospectus any facts or
      events arising after the effective date of the Registration
      Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof)
      which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental
      change in the information set forth in the Registration
      Statement;
      
                     (iii)    To include any material information with
      respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in
      the Registration Statement or any material change to such
      information in the Registration Statement;
      
           provided, however that paragraphs (i) and (ii) do not apply
      if the Registration Statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8, and the
      information required to be included in a post-effective amendment
      by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the
      Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
      Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the
      Registration Statement.
      
                  (b)   That, for the purpose of determining any
      liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective
      amendment shall be deemed to be a new Registration Statement
      relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of
      such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
      bona fide offering thereof.
      
                  (c)   To remove from registration by means of a post-
      effective amendment any of the securities being registered which
      remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
      
      2.  The Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d)
of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee
benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange
Act) that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement
shall be deemed to be a new Registration Statement relating to the
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that
time shall be deemed to be in the initial bona fide offering thereof.

                                   4
3.  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or
otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the
Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against
public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore,
unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification against
such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the
Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding)
is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will,
unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by
controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction
the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the
final adjudication of such issue.

                                  5
SIGNATURES

      Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the
registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it
meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly
caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Marlboro,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the 26th day of July, 1996.

                                          VIEWLOGIC SYSTEMS, INC.

                                          By:/s/ Alain J. Hanover
                                             --------------------------
                                             Alain J. Hanover
                                             Chairman of the Board of
                                             Directors and
                                             Chief Executive Officer

                           POWER OF ATTORNEY

      We, the undersigned officers and directors of Viewlogic Systems,
Inc. hereby severally constitute Alain J. Hanover, Ronald R. Benanto
and Peter T. Johnson, and each of them singly, our true and lawful
attorneys with full power to them, and each of them singly, to sign for
us and in our names in the capacities indicated below, the Registration
Statement on Form S-8 filed herewith and any and all subsequent
amendments to said Registration Statement, and generally to do all such
things in our names and behalf in our capacities as officers and
directors to enable Viewlogic Systems, Inc. to comply with all
requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby
ratifying and confirming our signatures as they may be signed by said
attorneys, or any of them, to said Registration Statement and any and
all amendments thereto.

                                  6
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons
in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Signature                      Title
- ---------                      -----

/s/ Alain J. Hanover           Chief Executive Officer       )
Alain J. Hanover               and Chairman of the Board     )
                               (principal executive officer) )
                                                             )
                                                             )
/s/ Ronald R. Benanto          Senior Vice President of      )
Ronald R. Benanto              Finance, Chief Financial      )
                               Officer and Treasurer         )
                               (principal financial and      )
                               accounting officer)           )
                                                             )
                                                             )
/s/ William J. Herman          President and Director        )
William J. Herman                                            )
                                                             )
                                                             )
                               Director                      )   July 26, 1996
Stanley F. Alfeld                                            )
                                                             )
                                                             )
/s/ Gregory T. George          Director                      )
Gregory T. George                                            )
                                                             )
                                                             )
/s/ Gordon Hoffman             Director                      )
Gordon Hoffman                                               )
                                                             )
                                                             )
/s/ Larry E. Reeder            Director                      )
Larry E. Reeder                                              )
                                                             )
                                                             )
/s/ Gregory A. White           Director                      )
Gregory A White                                              )
                                                             )
                                                             )
/s/ Allyn C. Woodward, Jr.     Director                      )
Allyn C. Woodward, Jr.                                       )

                                   7
EXHIBIT INDEX
                              -------------

Exhibit
Number       Description                                         Page
- -------      -----------                                         ----
   5         Opinion of Hale and Dorr                            9
  23.1       Consent of Hale and Dorr (included in Exhibit 5)    9
  23.2       Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP (Boston)           10
  25         Power of Attorney (see page 6 of this               6
               Registration Statement)
             

                                   8