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Philips Semiconductors Standardizes On Synplicity FPGA Synthesis and ASIC Verification Products
SUNNYVALE, Calif. & EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Oct. 15, 2001
Joint Development Efforts To Provide Optimized Verification
Solution to Philips Semiconductors' Customers
Synplicity, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYNP), a leading supplier of software
for the design and verification of semiconductors, and Philips
Semiconductors, a division of Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI,
NYSE: PHG), today announced the companies have signed an agreement
whereby Synplicity will provide Philips Semiconductors' design teams
access to all of Synplicity's current synthesis and ASIC verification
products. The companies also announced that Philips Semiconductors
will standardize on Synplicity's FPGA synthesis and ASIC verification
products in their supported flow for single and multi-FPGA platforms.
Synplicity and Philips Semiconductors plan to jointly enhance the
Certify® software to offer Philips Semiconductors' customers an
optimized ASIC verification solution.
``We have been very happy with the quality of results and
performance we have achieved using Synplicity's FPGA synthesis and
ASIC verification software, and we are pleased to standardize on those
products today,'' said Marinus van Lier, Department Manager System
Level Design of the Design Technology Group at Philips Semiconductors.
``Prototyping is critical to achieving first-pass success and cost
savings for our semiconductor development programs. The Certify
software is the leading product we have found that allows us to
prototype and verify designs split across multiple FPGAs. We have been
using the Certify product for more than two years to speed our time to
market and have been impressed with its ease of use, fast runtimes and
the savings it can bring.''
Synplicity and Philips Semiconductors plan to enhance the Certify
software and optimize the prototyping flow to enable smooth design
partitioning onto Philips Semiconductors' specific prototyping
platforms.
``Philips Semiconductors is a world-class electronics company, and
we are thrilled they have chosen our FPGA synthesis and ASIC
verification products as the standard for their design teams,'' said
Erhaan Shaikh, Synplicity's European managing director. ``We are
committed to the success of Philips Semiconductors and its customers
worldwide, and will continue to innovate our products to support their
design needs. Through our development efforts, we plan to deliver a
highly optimized version of our Certify software for Philips
Semiconductors, seeking to further ease the prototype development
process.''
About Philips Semiconductors
Philips Semiconductors, which had annual revenues of approximately
US$6.3 billion in 2000, designs and manufactures semiconductors and
silicon systems platforms. Philips Semiconductors is spearheading the
emerging field of systems on silicon solutions with the innovative
Nexperia(TM) platform and VLSI Velocity(TM) tool set. The company's
Sea-of-IP(TM) design methodology allows plug and play intellectual
property blocks for easily customizable products. The company is a
leader in communications, consumer, PC peripherals and automotive
semiconductors, which are key applications for convergence in end-user
products. Philips Semiconductors is headquartered in Eindhoven, The
Netherlands, and has operations throughout the world.
About Synplicity
Synplicity, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYNP) is a leading provider of software
products that enable the rapid and effective design and verification
of semiconductors used in next-generation networking and
communications hardware and other electronic devices. The company
leverages its innovative logic synthesis, physical synthesis and
verification software solutions to improve performance and shorten
development time for complex programmable logic devices, application
specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and system-on-chip (SoC)
integrated circuits. Synplicity's fast, easy-to-use products offer
high quality of results, support industry-standard design languages
(VHDL and Verilog) and run on popular platforms. As of June 30, 2001,
Synplicity employed over 250 people in its 16 facilities worldwide.
Synplicity is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.
The specific features, functionality and release timing of any new
products or new versions of current products remains at the sole
discretion of Synplicity, Inc., and no warranty is made as to when or
if specific features, functionality or releases may occur.
Synplicity and Certify are registered trademarks of Synplicity,
Inc. All other brands or products are the trademarks or registered
trademarks of their owners.
Contact:
Synplicity, Inc.
Andy Haines, 408/215-6000 (reader contact)
andyh@synplicity.com
or
Tsantes/Porter Novelli
Steve Gabriel, 408/369-1500 x27 (press contact)
steve@tsantes.com
or
Philips Semiconductors
Marijke Sas, +31 40 272 2091
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