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News Release from: Synplicity | Subject: Synplify and Synplify Pro
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 25 January 2005
FPGA software supports new low-cost
Flash devices
Synplify and Synplify Pro now provide optimised support for the new low-cost Actel ProASIC3 and ProASIC3E device families.
Underscoring the company's strong partnerships with industry-leading silicon vendors, Synplicity's FPGA synthesis software, Synplify and Synplify Pro, now provide optimised support for the new low-cost Actel ProASIC3 and ProASIC3E device families With this announcement, Synplicity continues to provide designers with software tools that offer significant area and timing optimisation benefits
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 Jan 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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A number of quality of results improvements in the latest versions of the Synplify and Synplify Pro FPGA synthesis packages provide increased performance and area reduction for Xilinx devices.
The area savings customers can expect to see using Synplicity's synthesis technology in the design of ProASIC3/E devices can often allow them to use a smaller, less costly device.
"Because Actel's ProASIC3/E devices are specifically developed for the value-based, high-volume market, it is imperative that we are able to provide our customers with best-in-class tools capable of fully exploiting our significant cost advantage", said Dennis Kish, Vice President of Marketing at Actel.
"For this reason, we continue to rely on Synplicity's true timing-driven synthesis technology to support our latest generation of devices with an unmatched reduction in area and cost, as well as superior quality of results".
Further reading
FPGA synthesis supports latest Xilinx environment
Synplicity's FPGA logic synthesis and physical synthesis products now provide full support for the recently announced Xilinx Integrated Software Environment 6.1i (ISE).
FPGA software is optimised for Actel devices
Synplicity has enhanced its FPGA synthesis software to provide optimised support for Actel's FPGAs.
In addition to optimised area/cost reduction, Synplicity's Synplify and Synplify Pro synthesis software support ProASIC3/E FPGAs with industry-leading quality of results (QoR) for timing performance and technical support.
Algorithmic QoR enhancements in the Synplify software enable designers to increase productivity while optimising the timing performance of their ProASIC3/E devices.
"Actel's new Flash-based, low-cost, ProASIC3/E FPGAs are attracting customers that previously would not have considered FPGAs due to cost", said Andy Haines, Vice President of Marketing at Synplicity.
"The true timing-driven synthesis technology in our Synplify products allows designers to automatically optimise for area once their timing requirements have been met, making it an ideal match for customers using ProASIC3/E devices in a wide range of applications".
"We believe customers incorporating our design capability along with Actel's ProASIC3/E devices will be able to achieve the highest possible performance goals".
Synplicity's Synplify software helps programmable logic designers rapidly achieve aggressive performance objectives.
The Synplify software takes designs written in VHDL or Verilog as input, and compiles, optimises and maps them into efficient, high-performance netlists for all leading CPLD and FPGA devices.
The Synplify Pro software offers high quality of results and fast runtimes along with an expanded feature set optimised to increase performance and productivity for today's complex programmable devices.
Support for the Actel ProASIC3/E devices by the Synplify and Synplify Pro synthesis software is available now.
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