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News Release from: Synplicity | Subject: Synplify DSP
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 July 2006
DSP software accelerates implementation
Synplicity has enhanced its Synplify DSP solution to further accelerate the implementation of DSP algorithms into silicon.
Synplicity has enhanced its Synplify DSP solution to further accelerate the implementation of DSP algorithms into silicon The Synplify DSP software is Synplicity's ESL synthesis platform that offers industry-leading benefits of high-level modelling and hardware abstraction, constraint-driven algorithm synthesis into RTL, and powerful system-wide optimisations for performance, area, and multi-channelisation tradeoff exploration
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Synplicity has unveiled enhancements to its Synplify DSP software, a premiere DSP synthesis solution for implementing DSP designs in FPGAs.
Enhancements to the Synplify DSP software include M-Control support, vector library support and additional communications blocks that facilitate the design of advanced applications in wireless communications, radar, and digital multimedia processing.
In addition to these unique features that speed algorithm design, the Synplify DSP tool's unique DSP synthesis methodology enables design portability across various device technologies while achieving optimal performance, enabling users to easily map DSP algorithms into their hardware platform of choice.
"The Synplify DSP software has gained a significant amount of traction within the DSP design community, which we attribute to the tool's vast improvement in implementing complex DSP algorithms into hardware", said John Gallagher, Director Outbound Marketing at Synplicity.
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The latest release of the Synplify DSP software, v3.2, adds several IP blocks that are fundamental to wireless communications algorithms.
Software develops RTL code automatically
Synplify DSP ASIC Edition software allows designers to explore speed and area tradeoffs, often leading to significant area and timing improvements over hand-coded approaches.
"Through significant additions made to the latest version, designers can rapidly create vector-based, technology-independent DSP models, and then quickly create optimised implementations with our DSP synthesis engine".
"With the Synplify DSP software, system designers will be able to concentrate their efforts on algorithm behaviour and verification, and be assured the implementation in RTL is accurate and optimal for any target technology".
The latest version of the Synplify DSP software features M-Control support, offering a concise description of control and state machine functions using M language.
Using M language to describe complex branching and case statement functionality, design engineers can now choose the most concise form of expressing their algorithms.
M-Control has been fully integrated into the Synplify DSP library and the MathWorks' Simulink environment by supporting data type and sample rate inheritance and propagation.
M-Control also features inline debugging for supporting breakpoints and stepping into the M code.
These features greatly simplify the specification and verification of control functionality that is often integrated into DSP algorithms.
Included in the Synplify DSP software are updates to its communications library, consisting of a high-level DSP synthesis library, a comprehensive filtering, math and communications library, and vector library support.
Through these updates, users can rapidly describe, verify and implement complex wireless algorithms (such as WiMAX, 802.11 a/b/g/n and DVB standards) into hardware devices.
Vector support results in math and communications algorithms that are much easier to describe and simulate.
In addition, vector support dramatically reduces the effort needed to create multichannel wireless algorithms and multi-antenna algorithms such as MIMO, video, radar and security applications.
The Synplify DSP software offers expanded device support for a variety of FPGA technologies from Actel, Altera and Xilinx, including Xilinx's recently announced Virtex-5 FPGAs.
Using Synplicity's DSP software, users can create portable and extensible IP that can be easily implemented into the FPGA architecture of choice.
The software also now includes Linux as one of the supported workstation platforms.
Availability An add-on to the Synplify Pro software, the full-featured Synplify DSP 3.1 solution is available from worldwide Synplicity representatives.
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