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News Release from: Synplicity
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 30 October 2002
Toshiba standardises FPGA synthesis
tools
Toshiba Design and Manufacturing Service Corp has standardised on Synplicity's FPGA synthesis tools.
Toshiba Design and Manufacturing Service Corp (DMS) has standardised on Synplicity's leading FPGA synthesis tools, Synplify and Synplify Pro, and the industry's only physical synthesis solution for FPGA designers, the Amplify Physical Optimizer Toshiba DMS chose Synplicity's FPGA synthesis solution to help achieve high quality of results in timing-critical FPGA designs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Apr 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Toshiba DMS will use Synplicity's solutions to design FPGAs for industrial equipment including communications equipment, control systems, medical instruments and electronics equipment.
"Before deciding to standardise on Synplicity's solutions, we conducted a thorough evaluation of available FPGA synthesis products", said Susumu Kouyama, Senior Manager of LSI design group, Toshiba DMS.
"Our evaluation found that Synplicity offers very effective tools for designers who need to achieve the highest performance possible from their FPGAs.
Using these tools, we achieved very aggressive design goals and expect we will certainly reduce the cost of our projects and improve the time to market".
Toshiba Corp established Toshiba DMS in November 2001 to reduce printed circuit board design and production costs.
Toshiba DMS combines the manufacturing and design capabilities of the various Toshiba engineering facilities including the Hino factory, Fuchu business office, Nasu factory, Yanagimachi business office and Komukai factory.
Toshiba DMS designs and manufacturers printed circuit boards and designs large scale integration (LSI) semiconductors and FPGAs.
Gary Meyers, Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Synplicity, said, "Toshiba DMS is a valued customer and we are committed to its success.
We believe our Synplify Pro and Amplify software solutions will deliver excellent quality of results and enable high-productivity in Toshiba's design teams.
We are very pleased it has chosen to standardise on our FPGA synthesis and physical synthesis tools and look forward to a long-term relationship".
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