Synplicity Supports Actel's New Radiation-Tolerant FPGAs; Synplify Pro Software Enables Designers to Achieve Optimal Results for
September 06 2005 - 8:00AM
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Synplicity, Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP), a leading supplier of software for
the design and verification of semiconductors, today announced the
company has optimized its industry-leading Synplify Pro(R) software
to provide support for Actel's new high-density, radiation-tolerant
FPGAs. Actel's RTAX4000S device, which offers 4 million system
gates for demanding space applications such as satellite payload
systems, combines high density with the fast turnaround times
associated with FPGAs. The Synplify Pro software enables designers
using the RTAX4000S devices in their military and aerospace systems
to meet their reliability, performance and time-to-market goals.
"Actel is taking radiation-tolerant FPGAs to new levels and we're
pleased that our Synplify Pro software has been optimized for their
product launch," stated Jeff Garrison, director of marketing for
FPGA products at Synplicity. "Complex system designs, like
satellites, require highly reliable devices and design tools. Our
Synplify Pro software provides a design environment that supports
the safety and mission-critical features that are key to high-rel
designs while meeting timing and scheduling goals." Ken O'Neill,
director, military and aerospace product marketing at Actel
Corporation, added, "The RTAX-S family of radiation-tolerant
devices offers the industry's most comprehensive radiation-tolerant
hardware solution for the military and aerospace community. Our
customers who use Synplicity's RTAX4000S-optimized version of the
Synplify Pro software in the design of these devices will be able
to quickly and easily meet their performance goals." The Synplify
Pro software offers designers of these radiation-hardened FPGAs
further improvements in single-event upsets (SEU) resistance.
Synplicity believes the Synplify Pro software enables users of
Actel devices, including RTAX4000S, to obtain a higher level of
protection for devices operating in a high-energy, ion-heavy
environment. The Synplify Pro software also contains a powerful
finite state machine (FSM) compiler that is especially useful in
military and aerospace applications. The FSM compiler detects state
machines in the RTL source code and implements them with an optimal
encoding style based upon timing constraints specified by the user.
For high reliability applications, the FSM compiler has a special
encoding directive ("safe") that adds logic to ensure that if the
state machine ever reaches an invalid state, it is reset. Pricing
and Availability Synplify Pro software support for the RTAX4000S
device is available now. The Synplify Pro software for Actel is an
add-on option to Actel's Libero Platinum product. For more
information contact Actel at http://www.actel.com. About
Synplicity's Synplify Pro Software Solution Synplicity's Synplify
Pro software is the industry's leading FPGA synthesis product. The
Synplify Pro software combines superior quality of results with
extremely fast runtimes, ease-of-use and technology independence,
helping designers rapidly achieve aggressive performance objectives
for today's complex programmable devices. The Synplify Pro tool
uses a true timing-driven approach to synthesis and completes
designs quicker than other tools by providing fast runtimes and
automatic optimization selection. Expert users have additional
controls helpful in guiding synthesis for optimum results. The
Synplify Pro tool's superior quality of results also allows use of
less expensive, lower speed grade components. About Synplicity
Synplicity(R) Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP) is a leading supplier of
innovative synthesis, verification and physical implementation
software solutions that enable the rapid and effective design and
verification of semiconductors. Synplicity's high-quality,
high-performance tools significantly reduce costs and
time-to-market for FPGA, structured/platform ASIC and
cell-based/COT ASIC designers. The company's underlying Behavior
Extracting Synthesis Technology(R) (BEST(TM)), which is embedded in
its logical, physical and verification tools, and has led to
Synplicity's top position in FPGA synthesis, now provides the same
fast runtimes and quality of results to ASIC and COT customers. The
company's fast, easy-to-use products support industry standard
design languages (VHDL and Verilog) and run on popular platforms.
Synplicity employs over 280 people in its 20 facilities worldwide.
Synplicity is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. 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
and achievements of the optimized Synplify Pro software used in
conjunction with Actel's products. In some cases, you will be able
to identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as
"may," "will," "should," "expects," "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 achievements or
performance of the integrated verification flow to differ
materially from the forward-looking statements, including the
performance and quality of Synplicity's products relative to other
comparable software and latent defects, design flaws or other
problems with the Synplify Pro software. For additional information
and considerations regarding the risks faced by Synplicity, see its
annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004 as
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as other
periodic reports filed with the SEC from time to time, including
its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Although Synplicity believes
that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements
are reasonable, Synplicity cannot guarantee the future performance
or achievements of its software. In addition, neither Synplicity
nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy or
completeness of these forward-looking statements. Synplicity
disclaims any obligation to update information contained in any
forward-looking statement. Synplicity, Behavior Extracting
Synthesis Technology, and Synplify Pro are registered trademarks of
Synplicity Inc. BEST is a trademark of Synplicity Inc. All other
names mentioned herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks
of their owners.
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