Synplicity Announces Full Support for New High-Performance Virtex-5 Devices From Xilinx; Synplify Pro Software Delivers Best-in
May 15 2006 - 8:00AM
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Synplicity, Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP), a leading supplier of software for
the design and verification of semiconductors, today announced that
the latest version of its Synplify Pro(R) synthesis software
provides full support for the industry's first 65-nanometer (nm)
Virtex(TM)-5 FPGA family introduced separately today by Xilinx,
Inc. Synplicity's Synplify Pro software provides timing-driven
synthesis that enables designers to take full advantage of the
speed, capacity and versatility of the new highly-integrated Xilinx
Virtex-5 LX Platform in a fast and efficient manner. Early access
software is available now from Synplicity and Xilinx with general
availability in June 2006. Algorithmic changes have been made to
the Synplify Pro software, allowing users to maximize the
performance and logic density of Virtex-5 LX devices, which offer
up to 330,000 logic cells, 10-Mb of on-chip memory, 1,200 I/Os and
a host of hardened intellectual property blocks all tuned to 550
MHz. The Synplify Pro algorithms have been tuned for the unique
Virtex-5 architecture, including efficient utilization of the new
ExpressFabric(TM) technology with the look-up table (LUT) structure
with six independent inputs to reduce levels of logic. The Synplify
Pro tool also now contains enhanced capability for automatically
inferring optimal memory and digital signal processing (DSP)
functionality to maximize the new high performance memory
architecture and DSP48E block with wider multipliers embedded in
Virtex-5 LX FPGAs. "We have worked closely with Xilinx over the
past year to ensure optimal support of the Synplify Pro tool for
the new Virtex-5 devices," stated John Gallagher, Director Outbound
Marketing at Synplicity. "These devices will offer unprecedented
levels of speed and capacity, making them an attractive solution
for a broader range of applications. We believe that the enhanced
optimizations built into the Synplify Pro software, along with its
timing-driven approach to synthesis, will allow designers to push
the performance of their complex designs while remaining
comfortably within their time-to-market goals." "Our new Virtex-5
FPGA family delivers compelling gains in performance and density
through innovations in process technology, device architecture and
product development methodology -- with speeds on average 30
percent higher and 65 percent increased capacity over previous
generation FPGAs," said Steve Lass, senior director of Software
Product Marketing at Xilinx. "Synplicity's early access software
support for our Virtex-5 LX Platform and commitment to providing
best-in-class design tools and methodologies will enable designers
to rapidly deploy 65-nm devices to meet the system requirements of
a wide range of high performance applications." In a related
announcement today, Synplicity and Xilinx also announced a joint
engineering Task Force focused on providing new design flows to
further maximize the quality of results and design productivity of
ultra high-density designs with next-generation 65-nm FPGAs.
Pricing and Availability The Synplify(R) 8.6 software is available
now. Pricing for the Synplify software starts at $9,500 (U.S.). For
more information visit Synplicity's Web site at
http://www.synplicity.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, physical synthesis and
verification functions for FPGA, FPGA-based ASIC verification, 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. Forward-Looking Statements This press
release contains forward-looking statements including, but not
limited to, statements regarding the performance, achievements and
benefits of the latest version of the Synplify Pro 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.
Synplicity, Synplify and Synplify Pro are registered trademarks of
Synplicity Inc. All other brands or products are the trademarks or
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