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News Release from: Synplicity | Subject: Synplify DSP software
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 November 2007
Software supports FPGA devices
Synplicity's Synplify DSP software now supports the LatticeECP2MO and LatticeXP2O field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices.
Synplicity and Lattice Semiconductor are co-operating on a highly optimised, nonproprietary ESL synthesis flow for DSP design Synplicity's Synplify DSP software now supports the LatticeECP2MO and LatticeXP2O field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices, suiting DSP algorithm implementation in aerospace, wireless, telecom and digital multimedia applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 29 Nov 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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"After looking at other commercial alternatives, we believe that Synplify DSP support for Lattice FPGA devices offers superior efficiencies and better performance for our mutual customers", said Stan Kopec, Lattice Corporate Vice President of Marketing.
"The optimised DSP algorithm implementation in the Synplify DSP technology, combined with the LatticeECP2M devices' powerful DSP blocks and massive memory and with the Flash-based flexiFLASH architecture of the LatticeXP2 family, delivers users exceptional design advantages for communication and multimedia algorithm design".
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Synplify DSP 3.6 includes new enhancements to architectural optimisations and DSP synthesis methodology, as well as new IP blocks and capacity improvements.
The combination of Synplify DSP and Lattice FPGA architectures helps designers capture multi-rate DSP algorithms quickly and easily.
Designers can perform architectural exploration across multiple Lattice devices and create algorithmic IP that is highly portable and re-usable, so users can easily map their DSP algorithms into any computing platform.
Andy Haines, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Synplicity, said, "Our strategic relationship with Lattice provides an advanced alternative to other DSP-based design tools".
"Equally important, we are giving users of The MathWorks Simulink environment, for multi-domain simulation and model-based design, a new target vendor for their FPGA designs: Lattice".
According to Haines, the expanded relationship with Lattice is expected to provide real user benefits for the implementation of DSP algorithms into silicon.
With M-Control fully integrated into the Synplify DSP library and The MathWorks Simulink environment, data type and sample rate inheritance and propagation are fully supported.
M-Control 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.
Moreover, with a comprehensive IP library of industry-standard functional blocks, such as FFTs, Viterbi decoders, DDS and CORDIC math functions, mutual customers of Lattice and Synplicity now can create designs rapidly in application-specific domains.
Synplify DSP is also well suited for wireless algorithm design, so Lattice users can develop FPGA-based applications for digital RF/IF processing, FEC (forward error correction) and digital multimedia (audio and video) encryption, as well as high-performance computing.
Vector support in Synplify DSP dramatically reduces the effort needed to create multi-channel wireless algorithms and multi-antenna algorithms such as MIMO, video, radar and security applications.
These features enable customers to rapidly describe, verify and implement complex wireless algorithms (such as WiMAX, 802.11 a/b/g/n and DVB standards) into hardware devices.
For high-performance DSP applications, Lattice devices provide up to a 50% performance and 75% logic utilisation improvement over other solutions when implementing common DSP functions.
Through advanced 90nm silicon technology, an optimised architecture and proprietary circuit design, Lattice devices reduce total solution costs by up to 30-50% compared to other FPGA solutions.
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