Synplicity Announces Support for Actel's New Axcelerator Family of High-speed FPGAs.Business Editors and High Tech Writers Synplicity's Synplify Pro Software Enables Outstanding Performance for Actel's Devices Targeting Communications Applications Synplicity, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYNP SYNP Synchronization Profile ), a leading supplier of software for the design and verification of semiconductors, today announced its market-share leading 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, Synplify Pro(R), now offers optimized support for the new Actel Axcelerator FPGA device family, introduced today. With Axcelerator device support and integration with Actel's Libero Libero can refer to:
"We developed our Axcelerator device family to deliver the high speeds required by today's communications and bridging systems," said Bryon Moyer, senior director of tools and technical marketing at Actel. "Synplicity's synthesis products offer tremendous quality of results, runtime and productivity advantages. We believe customers using Synplicity's Synplify(R) products in combination with Actel's Libero integrated design The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. environment or Designer tool suite will be able to meet aggressive performance and time-to-market goals for our new Axcelerator devices -- the industry's fastest FPGAs." Synplicity's Synplify Pro software performs technology mapping of HDL-based designs directly into Actel's Axcelerator architecture. The software produces an Axcelerator-optimized netlist and maps it directly into the Actel Libero integrated design environment, taking advantage of the unique device architecture and yielding high-performing designs. "The high-speed internal core architecture in Actel's Axcelerator devices takes direct aim at eliminating performance bottlenecks in communications and networking applications," said Jeff Garrison, director of marketing for FPGA products at Synplicity. "We worked closely with Actel to create an optimized synthesis flow for the rapid design and development of these devices. The Synplify Pro software offers fast runtimes and device-specific mapping technology and we believe customers using our FPGA synthesis solution with the Actel Axcelerator family will be able to quickly achieve their performance targets." With today's announcement, Synplicity continues to provide support for Actel's programmable logic See PLD. families. In addition to the new Axcelerator devices, other families supported by the Synplify software include: ProASIC Plus, ProASIC, 54SXS SXS Step-by-Step Switch (telecommunications) , eX, 54SXA SXA Single Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (bone density measure of wrist or heel) , 54SX, 42MX, 40MX, 3200DX, ACT3, ACT2 and ACT1. About Actel's Axcelerator Device Family Based on a 0.15-micron, seven-layer metal antifuse process, the Axcelerator family, with five devices ranging in density from 125,000 to 2-million system gates, can achieve the highest internal performance in the industry, delivering over 500 MHz operation and up to 100 percent resource utilization. Built upon the company's new AX architecture, the Axcelerator family features several key architectural advancements, including an embedded FIFO (First In First Out) A storage method that retrieves the item stored for the longest time. Contrast with LIFO. See traffic engineering methods. FIFO - first-in first-out controller, a fully fracturable SuperCluster su·per·clus·ter n. A group of neighboring clusters of galaxies. supercluster A large group of neighboring clusters of galaxies, along with isolated galaxies scattered between them, the entire collection , an embedded 64-bit PerPin FIFO, a scalable Core Tile structure and a flexible clock structure. About the Synplify Pro Software Driven by the proprietary Behavior Extracting Synthesis Technology(R) (B.E.S.T.(TM)) algorithms, Synplicity's synthesis solutions can deliver optimal circuit performance with the most efficient area utilization, helping programmable logic designers rapidly achieve aggressive performance objectives. The 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, extracts designer intent by inferring complex memories, finite state machines (FSMs) and advanced mathematical functions In mathematics, several functions or groups of functions are important enough to deserve their own names. This is a listing of pointers to those articles which explain these functions in more detail. , then compiles, optimizes and maps them into small, high-performance netlists for all leading 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. Pricing and Availability Support for the Axcelerator devices by the Synplify Pro synthesis solutions is available now. Pricing for Synplify software starts at $9,000 (U.S.). 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, Dataquest named Synplicity as the No.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 in 2000 with 45 percent market share. 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, application specific integrated circuits (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 March 31, 2002, Synplicity employed 269 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 with 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 product integration with those of third parties will occur as described in the press release. Synplicity, Behavior Extracting Synthesis Technology, Synplify and Synplify Pro are registered trademarks of Synplicity, Inc. B.E.S.T. is a trademark of Synplicity. All other brands or products are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their owners. SYB-164 |
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