Synplicity Announces Optimized Software Support for Xilinx's New 90nm Spartan-3 FPGAs.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 2003 Synplicity's 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. Synthesis Software Enables Lower Cost in Spartan-3 FPGAs with Optimal Area Reduction Synplicity, Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP SYNP Synchronization Profile ), a leading supplier of software for the design and verification of semiconductors, today announced support of Xilinx, Inc.'s (Nasdaq:XLNX) new class of 90nm Spartan(R) FPGA solutions -- the Spartan-3 platform, which was announced April 14, 2003. Synplicity has optimized its Synplify(R) and Synplify Pro(R) FPGA synthesis software to provide a fast, easy-to-use solution for quickly reaching timing and cost goals for Xilinx's new lowest-cost Spartan-3 FPGAs. With this announcement, Synplicity, a founding member of the Xilinx AllianceEDA program, continues to provide optimal support for Xilinx's family of programmable logic devices and reaffirms its commitment to provide its mutual customers with best-in-class RTL-based solutions tailored for Xilinx's high-density, low-cost programmable logic devices. "We constantly work with our FPGA customers to help them lower their development effort and bill of materials The list of components that make up a system. For example, a bill of materials for a house would include the cement block, lumber, shingles, doors, windows, plumbing, electric, heating and so on. costs by providing high performance, high productivity solutions," said Jeff Garrison, director of marketing for FPGA products at Synplicity. "We believe this new class of low-cost Spartan-3 devices is targeting a larger portion of the total programmable IC See PLD. market and our FPGA synthesis solutions are well suited to meet the needs of designers using Spartan-3 devices. We believe our FPGA synthesis technology, coupled with Xilinx's place and route software, will enable our customers to use lower cost devices while quickly reaching their capacity and performance goals." "For many years, Synplicity's synthesis technology has enabled our mutual customers to meet their most aggressive design goals for Xilinx's largest devices," said Dave Bennett Dave Bennett (born July 111959) is an English former football (soccer) player. He is most famous for playing in two FA Cup Finals; 1981 for Manchester City, when he finished on the losing side, and 1987, when he produced a Man of the Match , vice president of software product development from Xilinx. "Together with our new 90nm Spartan-3 FPGAs, the Synplify Pro software can have an even more dramatic effect on lowering the cost of silicon by packing a design into a smaller die or meeting timing requirements with a cheaper speed grade. The savings can easily be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars over production life of the product." The Synplify and Synplify Pro software helps programmable logic See PLD. designers achieve aggressive performance and cost objectives. The Synplify and Synplify Pro software takes designs written in 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. or Verilog as input, and compiles, optimizes and maps them into efficient, high-performance netlists for Xilinx's 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. and FPGA devices. The software offers high quality of results and fast runtimes along with an expanded feature set optimized to increase area utilization for today's complex programmable devices. Spartan-3 users can directly benefit from Synplicity's FPGA synthesis solutions by enabling them to implement their design into a lower cost device, compared with other synthesis tools. About Synplicity Synplicity, Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP) is a leading provider of software products that enable the rapid and effective design and verification of semiconductors used in networking and communications, computer and peripheral, consumer and military/aerospace electronics systems. Recognizing the company's industry-leading position, since the year 2000 Dataquest has named Synplicity as the #1 provider of 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. synthesis tools, announcing a 54 percent market share in 2001. Synplicity leverages its innovative 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 software solutions to improve performance and shorten development time for complex programmable logic devices (hardware) complex programmable logic device - (CPLD) A programmable circuit similar to an FPGA, but generally on a smaller scale, invented by Xilinx, Inc. , application specific integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. (ASICs) and system-on-chip (SoC) integrated circuits. The company's fast, easy-to-use products offer high quality of results, support industry-standard design languages (VHDL and Verilog) and run on popular platforms. As of December 31, 2002, Synplicity employed more than 250 people in its 20 facilities worldwide. Synplicity is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information on Synplicity, visit http://www.synplicity.com. The specific features and new functionality of existing products and operation with products from third parties as described in this press release remain at the sole discretion of Synplicity, Inc. and no warranty is made as to whether the specific functionalities of such existing products or the success of operation with products of third parties will occur as described in the press release. Note to Editors: Synplicity, Synplify and Synplify Pro are registered trademarks of Synplicity, Inc. All other brands or products are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their owners. |
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