MINC Expands Its Product Line and Enters the Broad-Based EDA Market; Windows and Windows/NT Versions of New Board Designer and System Designer Products Are Shipping.COLORADO SPRINGS Colorado Springs, city (1990 pop. 281,140), seat of El Paso co., central Colo., on Monument and Fountain creeks, at the foot of Pikes Peak; inc. 1886. It is a year-round resort and a booming military, technological, and commercial city. , Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 19, 1998--MINC Inc., the leading electronic design automation (EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. ) supplier of tools and technology for programmable integrated circuit integrated circuit (IC), electronic circuit built on a semiconductor substrate, usually one of single-crystal silicon. The circuit, often called a chip, is packaged in a hermetically sealed case or a nonhermetic plastic capsule, with leads extending from it for (IC) design, announced today that it is entering the broad-based EDA market with two new products-Synario Board Designer and Synario System Designer. These products add system and board design capabilities to MINC's popular Synario programmable IC See PLD. design tools called Synario Programmable IC Designer. Greg Brown Greg Brown may refer to:
MINC Multicast-based Inference of Network-internal Characteristics MINC Military-Industrial Complex MINC Management Interactive Network Connection (USDA) formally enters the broad-based EDA supplier market. We have a large number of customers using our Engineering Capture System who have been asking us to enhance our Synario product line by including the team-based capabilities of our Project Navigator and improving our PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. and analog design integration." What Is Unique: Synario's Project Navigator now supports a level of hierarchy as a complete project itself. This hierarchical project structure supports multiple design domains (digital, analog, PCB) in a distributed project environment. The intelligence provided by the online connectivity database ensures that the entire linked project structure is not violated by alerting parent projects of changes in child projects such as interface alteration, library usage, etc. Synario's Engineering Capture Systems (ECS See eComStation. ) enables this type of design. The new products take advantage of combining Synario's ECS with Synario's Project Navigator capabilities. Users of Synario's System and Board Designer: Synario System Designer is for systems designers and design teams building boards and systems, who are managing designs composed of analog, board, IC and programmable logic See PLD. . Synario Board Designer addresses board and daughter board design. About Synario Board and System Designer: These products use the framework technology provided by Synario's Project Navigator as the basis for addressing logical board and system design. System Designer targets those building complex electronic systems that require the coordination of multiple designers and/or product development teams. System Designer provides an environment to decompose de·com·pose v. de·com·posed, de·com·pos·ing, de·com·pos·es v.tr. 1. To separate into components or basic elements. 2. To cause to rot. v.intr. 1. a complex design into manageable parts and then make those parts available to domain specific teams for analog, board, IC and programmable logic design. System Designer supports VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) A hardware description language (HDL) used to design electronic systems at the component, board and system level. VHDL allows models to be developed at a very high level of abstraction. simulation for behavior and timing simulation using Model Technology's Vsystem or ModelSim products and VHDL, Verilog and SPICE netlisting. It interfaces with popular PCB layout applications. Board Designer is a subset A group of commands or functions that do not include all the capabilities of the original specification. Software or hardware components designed for the subset will also work with the original. of System Designer and is used for logical board and daughter board design and supports board simulation using VHDL with Model Technology's Vsystem and ModelSim. -0- What System Designer and Board Designer Offer: Comprehensive Design Environment: The Synario products are tightly integrated to provide a complete end-to-end design solution for unit, board and component designs. -0- -- System Designer provides comprehensive schematic- and behavioral-entry design environments to capture, analyze and document system, unit, board and component designs. System Designer can be used to develop and simulate (with an optional simulator (1) Software that enables the execution of an application written for a different computer environment. Same as emulator. (2) Software that models the interactions of hypothetical or real-world objects or business processes. ) programmable IC designs that can then be synthesized syn·the·sized adj. 1. Relating to or being an instrument whose sound is modified or augmented by a synthesizer. 2. Relating to or being compositions or a composition performed on synthesizers or synthesized instruments. with the Synario Programmable IC Designer product. -- Board Designer provides comprehensive schematic- and behavioral-entry design environments to capture, analyze, and document board and board/daughter board designs. Board Designer can be used to simulate (with an optional simulator) programmable IC designs that have been created with the Programmable IC Designer.
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Project Navigator: Provides an easy-to-use design environment to
organize, capture, analyze and link multiple design projects that have
been distributed to design domain-specific teams and individuals. The
Project Navigator features "results-oriented-processing" that uses
auto-make features to automate and tightly integrate the process steps
for each design source within a project to reduce design entry errors
and shorten the design cycle. The auto-make feature checks for
dependencies between process steps and automatically runs predecessor
processes that are out-of-date or that have not been run. This feature
reduces design errors by ensuring that each process step is operating
on the most current process results and design data.
Project Notebook: The Project Navigator uses the concept of a
Project Notebook to capture and organize a related group of design
sources. The Project Navigator provides a source "context sensitive"
process window that contains a choice of actions that can be performed
for each source type. The "context sensitive" process window provides
a standardized set of design flows and processes, which simplifies the
user interface and speeds up the design process. The Project Notebook
provides an efficient method to organize a design into different views
(i.e. levels of abstraction and detail) for simulation purposes. A
Project Notebook can be created for each view of a design that
contains any combination of design sources. Project Notebooks provide
an easy-to-use mechanism to instantiate lower-level projects and
sources. The Project Notebook supports full hierarchical design for
projects, schematics, Verilog and VHDL and a mixed schematic and HDL
hierarchy. Multiple Project Notebooks capture and organize different
views or representations of the same design (e.g. high-level
behavioral views, mixed schematic and HDL views, mixed behavioral and
synthesizable views, or pure HDL views).
Hierarchy Navigator: Builds a design hierarchy to view the entire
design in its full context. This tool provides extensive design rule
checking to reduce design errors within a localized design project and
across multiple, distributed projects. It provides error reporting to
enable the user to quickly identify and correct design errors
throughout the entire design hierarchy. The Hierarchy Navigator
provides a Push/Pop feature that enables the user to push (move down)
into lower levels of a design or pop (move up) into higher levels of a
design and provides the ability to mark nets or symbols. This makes it
easy to trace signals between sheets or through the hierarchy. The
Hierarchy Navigator provides a Query object function to view a brief
summary of the local attributes for a net, symbol or hierarchical
block.
Simulator Interfaces: The Synario products have netlist
interfaces to VHDL, Verilog, and SPICE simulators.
PCB Interface and Packaging: System and Board Designer include
popular PCB netlisters to translate the schematic design database into
a PCB compatible format. Packaging features include automatic package
assignment, consistency checking and the ability to back annotate a
design with modifications (e.g. gate and pin swapping) or notes.
System and Board Designer Features:
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-- Hierarchically captures, decomposes, and links complex electronic systems. -- Online connectivity database ensures integrity of design module interfaces and consistency of data usage including libraries -- Graphically view the relationship of one design source to another within a project, -- Unlimited lower level project links. -- User defined Any format, layout, structure or language that is developed by the user. source types allow virtually any type of (local or remote) design documentation to be added to a project. -- Comprehensive project/design management shortens development time and reduces design errors. System Designer Feature: -- Supports localized as well as distributed design across multiple teams and multiple design domains through the use of system, board and IC projects. Board Designer Feature: -- Provides a link to Synario's Programmable IC Designer to allow lower-level simulation results to be integrated into the board simulation.
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Pricing and Availability:
MINC's Programmable IC Designer, Board Designer and System
Designer are shipping now for Windows 95/NT. Synario Board Designer
starts at $2,495 (USD). Synario System Designer starts at $3,995
(USD). Synario Programmable IC Designer starts at $3,495 (USD).
Introductory pricing for both products is available for new and
current Synario customers.
About MINC's Synario Products:
MINC's Synario products provide a complete design environment for
programmable IC-based electronic systems design. MINC's Synario
products include distributed hierarchical project management, design
entry, simulation, and synthesis tools.
The products support the leading PLD, CPLD and FPGA technologies
and link to popular PCB layout and analog simulation tools. Synario
products link to MINC's synthesis tool, PLSynthesizer(tm) and other
popular design tools and environments.
About MINC:
MINC provides a comprehensive suite of tightly integrated, best
of class, Windows EDA software solutions for programmable logic IC,
board and system design. In addition to relationships with EDA
vendors, MINC is a tool supplier to many IC companies. For more
information, call 800/755-3742 or visit the Web site at
www.synario.com.
MINC headquarters are located at 6755 Earl Drive, Colorado
Springs, CO 80918-1039, 719/590-1155, FAX: 719/590-7330.
Notes to Editors: Graphics available on request. MINC is a
registered trademark of MINC, Inc. PLSynthesizer is a trademark of
Minc, Inc. All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property
of their respective owners.
Reader Inquiry Contact: MINC, Inc., 14715 NE 95th ST. Suite 200,
Redmond, WA 98052, U.S. 425/497-8200 or 888/SYNARIO (796-2746), FAX:
425/497-6032, www.synario.com, edasales@synario.com, Attn: Dennis
Kinion
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Acronyms: CPLD (Complex PLD) A programmable logic device that is made up of several simple PLDs (SPLDs) with a programmable switching matrix in between the logic blocks. CPLDs typically use EEPROM, flash memory or SRAM to hold the logic design interconnections. See PLD and SPLD. : Complex Programmable Logic Device (hardware) complex programmable logic device - (CPLD) A programmable circuit similar to an FPGA, but generally on a smaller scale, invented by Xilinx, Inc. ECS: Engineering Capture System (par t of Synario) EDA: Electronic Design Automation FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. : Field Programmable Gate Array See FPGA. HDL (Hardware Description Language) A language used to describe the functions of an electronic circuit for documentation, simulation or logic synthesis (or all three). Although many proprietary HDLs have been developed, Verilog and VHDL are the major standards. : Hardware Description Language (language) Hardware Description Language - (HDL) A kind of language used for the conceptual design of integrated circuits. Examples are VHDL and Verilog. IC: Integrated Circuit PLD (Programmable Logic Device) Refers to a variety of logic chips that are programmable at the customer's site, the customer being the vendor of the finished chip, not the end user. : Programmable Logic Device See PLD. PCB: Printed Circuit Boards |
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