Synopsys and Synplicity Establish Alliance to Advance High-Performance ASIC Verification.Companies Leverage Unique Core Competencies to Further Hardware-Assisted ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. Verification MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Synopsys (Nasdaq:SNPS SNPS Space Nuclear Power System ), a world leader in semiconductor design software, and Synplicity, Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP SYNP Synchronization Profile ), a leading supplier of software for the design and verification of semiconductors, today announced the signing of a joint marketing agreement intended to improve verification flows for their mutual customers. Under terms of the agreement, the companies intend to work together on next-generation, high-performance verification solutions for ASIC designers. Targeting FPGA-based prototyping environments, Synopsys and Synplicity plan to demonstrate Synopsys' VCS (1) (Verilog Computer Simulator) See Verilog. (2) (Version Control System) See version control. ([R]) functional verification Functional verification, in electronic design automation, is the task of verifying that the logic design conforms to specification. In everyday terms, functional verification attempts to answer the question "Does this proposed design do what is intended?" This is a complex task, solution working seamlessly with Synplicity's new Identify[R] Pro software with TotalRecall([TM]) technology, a tool adding full visibility to FPGA-based prototyping systems. A press release announcing Synplicity's Identify Pro software was distributed today (Synplicity Delivers Breakthrough ASIC Verification Solution). "Synplicity and Synopsys are focused on improving verification flows for the ASIC design community," said George Zafiropoulos, vice president of Marketing, Discovery Verification Platform, Synopsys. "Working together we are able to deliver a solution that can increase productivity for FPGA-based prototyping of ASIC designs. The Synopsys VCS solution and the Synplicity Identify Pro product will enable our mutual customers to more quickly perform interactive debugging of FPGA-based prototypes." "We believe the collaboration between Synplicity and Synopsys will result in innovative new hardware-assisted verification flows," said Joe Gianelli, vice president Business Development and Strategic Alliances, Synplicity. "We have been working with Synopsys during the past six months to ensure that our new Identify Pro software and Synopsys' industry-leading VCS solution work seamlessly together to provide full visibility for high-performance ASIC prototyping flows. Using this flow will enable designers to find and debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. design issues that are otherwise only caught using live system stimulus." The Synopsys-Synplicity joint marketing agreement grants both companies licenses of their respective products to create a highly tested flow between their respective tools. Under the terms of the agreement, Synopsys and Synplicity intend to explore additional capabilities from each company's product portfolio to advance their combined, next-generation verification solutions. Synplicity and Synopsys will be exhibiting at the 2007 Design Automation Conference, June 4-7 in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. . Synopsys will be in booth # 5278. Synplicity will be in booth # 4278 and plans a demonstration of the Synplicity-Synopsys integrated ASIC prototype flow. About Synopsys Synopsys, Inc. is a world leader in 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. software for semiconductor design. The company delivers technology-leading semiconductor design and verification platforms and IC manufacturing software The following list of software modules are the manufacturing components of Baan's ERP (BaanERP) system, acquired by SSA Global in 2003 and subsequently by Infor at the end of 2006. It is listed here because it provides a comprehensive overview of the required software. See MES. products to the global electronics market, enabling the development and production of complex systems-on-chips (SoCs). Synopsys also provides intellectual property and design services to simplify the design process and accelerate time-to-market for its customers. Synopsys is headquartered in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. and has offices in more than 60 locations throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, Japan and Asia. Visit Synopsys online at http://www.synopsys.com. About Synplicity Synplicity([R]), Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP) is a leading supplier of innovative software solutions that enable the rapid and effective design of Programmable Logic Devices (FPGAs, PLDs and CPLDs) that serve a wide range of communications, military/aerospace, consumer, semiconductor, computer, and other electronic systems markets. Synplicity's tools provide outstanding performance, cost and time-to-market benefits by simplifying, improving and automating key design planning, logic synthesis The conversion of a high-level electronic circuit description into a list of logic gates and their interconnections, called the "netlist." Every logic synthesis program understands some subset of Verilog and VHDL. , physical synthesis and verification functions for 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. , FPGA-based ASIC verification, and DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive designers. Synplicity is the number one supplier of FPGA synthesis solutions and has been rated #1 in customer satisfaction since 2004 in EE Times' Annual FPGA Customer Survey. Synplicity products support industry-standard design languages (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. and Verilog) and run on popular platforms. The company operates in over 20 facilities worldwide and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. . For more information visit http://www.synplicity.com. Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements including, but not limited to, statements regarding the performance, achievements and benefits of the joint development efforts between Synopsys and Synplicity and the ASIC verification solution combining their respective products. In some cases, you will be able to identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "expects," "can," "believes" or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. These statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements, including the continued collaboration between the two companies, the performance and benefits of the products relative to relevant industry methods and standards, the ability of Synopsys and Synplicity to devote the necessary resources for the joint development arrangement, design flaws, design difficulties or other risks identified in the two companies' respective filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Although both companies believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, they cannot guarantee the future performance or achievements of their software. In addition, neither company assumes responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of these forward-looking statements. Both companies disclaim any obligation to update information contained in any forward-looking statement. Synopsys and Discovery are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Synopsys, Inc. Synplicity, Identify and TotalRecall are trademarks and /or registered trademarks of Synplicity, Inc. All other names mentioned herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their owners. |
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