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News Release from: Synplicity | Subject: Synplify Pro
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 03 July 2002
Software supports latest Axcelerator
FPGAs
Synplify Pro now offers optimised support for the new Actel Axcelerator FPGA device family.
Synplify Pro now offers optimised support for the new Actel Axcelerator FPGA device family With Axcelerator device support and integration with Actel's Libero design environment, the Synplify Pro software provides customers with a fast, easy to use solution for quickly reaching timing goals for Actel's high-performance devices
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Apr 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"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.
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Synplicity has upgraded its industry-leading Synplify Pro FPGA synthesis and Synplify DSP true DSP Synthesis software to support Altera Corp's new low-power, high-performance Stratix III FPGAs.
We believe customers using Synplicity's Synplify products in combination with Actel's Libero integrated design environment or Designer Series 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-optimised 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 optimised 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 families.
In addition to the new Axcelerator devices, other families supported by the Synplify software include: ProASIC Plus, ProASIC, 54SXS, eX, 54SXA, 54SX, 42MX, 40MX, 3200DX, ACT3, ACT2 and ACT1.
Support for the Axcelerator devices by the Synplify Pro synthesis solutions is available now.
Pricing for Synplify software starts at US $9000.
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