Synplicity's Synplify Premier Software Wins the Semiconductor Industry News' LSI of the Year Award; The FPGA Physical Synthesis
June 29 2006 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Synplicity, Inc. (NASDAQ:SYNP), a leading supplier of software for
the design and verification of semiconductors, today announced its
Synplify(R) Premier software with graph-based physical synthesis
technology was awarded the prestigious LSI of the Year Award's
first-place Grand Prix Award. Winning the award in the Design
Environment/Development Tools category, the Synplify Premier
software features Synplicity's innovative graph-based physical
synthesis technology, merging optimization, placement and routing
to generate a fully placed and physically optimized design. The
Graph-based physical synthesis technology within the Synplify
Premier software improves timing closure by means of a single-pass
physical synthesis flow for 90nm FPGAs. Synplicity received the
award during a ceremony on June 28 at the 9th Embedded Systems Expo
& Conference being held at the Tokyo Big Sight in Japan. The
Semiconductor Industry News established the LSI of the Year awards
in 1994 to promote market development and technology in the
semiconductor industry. The award acknowledges the most remarkable
LSI products and technology in two categories -- the Device
category, and the Design Environment/Development Tool category.
Nearly 250 products were nominated for the 2006 award with the
Synplicity Premier software receiving first-place recognition by
receiving the Grand Prix Award. "We are extremely honored to
receive the prestigious LSI of the Year Award for our Synplify
Premier product," said Gary Meyers, president and CEO of
Synplicity, Inc. "The Synplify Premier software represents a
breakthrough achievement and this award demonstrates our continuing
leadership position in the FPGA synthesis market. We remain
committed to offering innovative software solutions that enable the
rapid and effective design of complex, high-performance
semiconductors." "Synplicity holds a dominant share of the FPGA
logic synthesis market," said Dr. Eng. Hiroto Yasuura, professor of
Kyushu University, Chairman of the review committee. "Synplicity's
unique FPGA physical synthesis technology ensures fast timing
closure and improves operation speed. The Synplify Premier software
is highly evaluated as an essential method for 90nm FPGA designs."
This award marks the fourth time Synplicity's tools have won an LSI
of the Year award. Previous products from Synplicity that won the
prestigious award include: the Amplify(R) Family of
Structured/Platform ASIC synthesis tools (2005 Semi-Grand Prix
award winner); Identify(R) RTL Debugger software (2004 third place
LSI of the Year award winner); Amplify(R) FPGA Physical Synthesis
software with TOPS(TM) (Total Optimization Physical Synthesis
Technology) (2002 Jury's Special award winner). About Synplify
Premier The Synplify Premier software builds upon Synplicity's
industry leading synthesis technology and adds new graph-based
physical synthesis and real-time simulator-like visibility into
operating FPGA devices. Graph-based physical synthesis technology
improves timing closure by means of a single-pass physical
synthesis flow for 90nm FPGAs. The technology merges optimization,
placement and routing to generate a fully placed and physically
optimized netlist, providing rapid timing closure and a 5% to 20%
timing improvement. In addition, Synplify Premier offers the most
efficient method of in-system verification of FPGAs. The Synplify
Premier software dramatically accelerates the debug process and
provides a rapid and incremental method for finding elusive design
problems. With the addition of graph-based physical synthesis and
source-level, in-circuit debugging to the world's best FPGA
synthesis technology, the Synplify Premier tool is the industry's
most comprehensive and productive FPGA design solution. 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) 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. Synplicity, Amplify, Identify and
Synplify are registered trademarks of Synplicity, Inc. TOPS is a
trademark of Synplicity, Inc. All other brands or products are the
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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