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News Release from: Synplicity | Subject: Synplify ASIC 2.4.1
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 07 March 2003
ASIC design software supports latest NEC
platform
Synplicity has signed a joint development agreement to provide support for NEC's Instant Silicon Solution Platform ASIC devices.
Synplicity has signed a joint development agreement to provide support for NEC's Instant Silicon Solution Platform (ISSP) ASIC devices Under terms of the agreement, Synplicity will develop custom synthesis mapping technology for its Synplify ASIC software, optimised to deliver the best performance, density and design productivity for the ISSP devices
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Apr 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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NEC Electronics has provided Synplicity with detailed information about its ISSP architecture, has validated the Synplify ASIC software's performance and will integrate the software into its overall OpenCAD design flow.
NEC Electronics and its subsidiaries in North America and Europe will offer library support for the custom Synplify ASIC software to its ISSP customers worldwide to enable high performance, high design capacity and fast turnaround times.
"We chose to work with Synplicity due to its synthesis expertise and history of success in developing custom mapping technology for the high-end FPGA market, and have found Synplicity to be a valuable and responsive development partner", said Dr Hitoshi Yoshizawa, General Manager, 3rd custom LSI division, NEC Electronics Corp.
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"With a custom mapper optimised for our ISSP architecture, we expect our customers will be able to use the Synplify ASIC software to obtain the best timing performance possible.
Likewise, we have found the Synplify ASIC software to be very easy to use not only by ASIC designers but also by system designers - a critical characteristic for tools in a high-productivity design flow - enabling our customers to realise the fast time-to-market benefits provided by our ISSP devices".
Ken McElvain, Chief Technical Officer at Synplicity, said, "In order to realise the performance and time-to-market advantages offered by NEC's easy-to-design silicon platform, designers must have access to automated, easy-to-use design tools.
Synplicity has consistently provided high-productivity, high-performance synthesis solutions, and the ISSP architecture is an ideal platform to apply our core synthesis and mapping capabilities.
We teamed closely with NEC to understand the details of the unique ISSP architecture and develop a synthesis engine that would maximise the performance, density and time-to-market advantages offered by the devices".
As part of this joint agreement, both parties intend to continue to optimise the Synplify ASIC software for the ISSP architecture.
Synplicity also intends to train and work closely with NEC's field design centres in order to provide its mutual customers complete support.
With the initial development complete, Synplicity and NEC Electronics expect customers will immediately realise timing performance, area and runtime advantages over synthesis solutions that are not optimised for the ISSP devices.
Synplicity intends to develop future releases of the Synplify ASIC software in conjunction with NEC Electronics to integrate the latest design software and architectural enhancements to the ISSP solution.
Both companies will work with customers using ISSP devices to define additional design flow advantages.
Synplify ASIC software version 2.4.1 with the ISSP-specific mapping technology is available from Synplicity now.
Customers on maintenance will be upgraded for free.
The software is available for Linux (Red Hat 8.0), HP-UX 11.11, Sun Solaris 2.7/2.8/2.9, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 operating systems.
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