Synplicity and Xilinx Create Design Task Force to Tackle Timing Closure for Ultra High-Capacity FPGAs
May 15 2006 - 8:32AM
PR Newswire (US)
Engineering Teams Collaborate on Design Flow for Next-Generation
65-nm Devices SUNNYVALE, Calif. and SAN JOSE, Calif., May 15
/PRNewswire/ -- Synplicity, Inc. (NASDAQ:SYNP), a leading supplier
of software for the design and verification of semiconductors, and
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX), the world's leading supplier of
programmable solutions, today announced the formation of their
joint Ultra High-Capacity Timing Closure Task Force. Engineering
teams from both companies will collaborate to define and implement
new design flows that maximize the quality of results and design
productivity of ultra high- density designs with next-generation
65-nanometer (nm) FPGAs. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020822/XLNXLOGO) The
industry's first 65-nm Virtex(TM)-5 FPGA family introduced
separately today by Xilinx, includes devices with up to 330,000
logic cells, 10-Mb on-chip memory, 1,200 I/Os and a host of
additional hardened intellectual property (IP) blocks on the new
Virtex-5 LX Platform. Future platforms will add even greater
density points and capabilities further expanding the reach of
advanced FPGA architectures across a wide range of application
domains. Synplicity and Xilinx will build upon their existing
support of these 65-nm devices to develop next-generation design
automation solutions that enable system designers to take full
advantage of their capacity and performance while achieving rapid
timing closure. "We're very pleased to take the existing strong
relationship between our two companies to the next level," said
Bruce Talley, vice president, Design Software Division at Xilinx.
"The Synplicity team has a great deal of experience and track
record of innovation when it comes to high performance, complex
FPGA design with products like Synplify Pro and Synplify Premier
physical synthesis. This joint task force provides an opportunity
to more quickly leverage engineering expertise and creativity
across our development organizations." "Xilinx is breaking new
ground with its 65-nm Virtex-5 FPGA product line," said Ken
McElvain, CTO at Synplicity. "These platforms require tools that
are optimized to solve timing closure issues that arise from the
unprecedented levels of performance and capabilities. The creation
of this task force is targeted at helping our mutual customers
deploy the Virtex-5 ultra-high-capacity devices in their systems in
the fastest, most efficient manner." Ultra High-Capacity Task Force
The Ultra High-Capacity Task Force will initially focus on
providing dramatic improvements in overall quality of results and
run time, and ensuring the stability of results when small changes
are made to designs. Ultimately the Task Force's goal is for
designers to realize the benefits of near push-button results for
ultra high density designs along with the ability to complete
multiple design iterations per day. In view of the wide variety of
applications enabled by these ultra high-capacity devices, the Task
Force will focus on delivering multiple design flows and tools
optimized to meet unique design goals. The joint Task Force expects
the first of these tools and methodologies to be available in the
first half of 2007. About Synplicity Synplicity(R) Inc. is a
leading supplier of innovative software solutions that enable the
rapid and effective design of Programmable Logic Devices (FPGAs,
PLDs and CPLDs) and are used in 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,
physical synthesis and verification functions for FPGA, FPGA-based
ASIC prototyping and DSP designers. Synplicity is the number one
supplier of FPGA synthesis solutions and has been rated #1 in
customer satisfaction in 2004 and 2005 in EE Times' Annual FPGA
Customer Survey. Synplicity products support industry-standard
design languages (VHDL and Verilog) and run on popular platforms.
The company operates in over 20 facilities worldwide and is
headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information visit
http://www.synplicity.com/. About Xilinx Xilinx is the worldwide
leader in complete programmable logic solutions. For more
information, visit http://www.xilinx.com/. Forward-Looking
Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements
including, but not limited to, statements regarding the
performance, achievements and benefits of Synplicity software used
in conjunction with third party 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 results
to differ materially from the forward-looking statements, including
the performance and benefits of Synplicity's software relative to
relevant industry methods or standards, design flaws, design
difficulties or other problems with Synplicity's software and the
growth and changing technical requirements in the FPGA market. 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, 2005 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.
#0659 NOTE: Synplicity is a registered trademark of Synplicity Inc.
All other brands or products mentioned herein are the trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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Tamara Snowden of Xilinx North America, +1-408-879-6146, or ; or
Steve Gabriel of Porter Novelli, +1-408-369-4627, or ; or Joe
Gianelli of Synplicity Inc., +1-408-215-6000, or Web site:
http://www.synplicity.com/ http://www.xilinx.com/
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