Synplicity Announces Agreement with Flextronics Design to Standardize on Synplicity FPGA Synthesis and Prototyping Products
Multi-Year Agreement Enables Flextronics to Support Customers with Industry-Leading Software from Synplicity
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 6, 2002 - Synplicity, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYNP), a leading supplier of software for the design and verification of semiconductors, and Flextronics Design, a business unit of Flextronics International and a leading global provider of engineering design services, today announced that Flextronics will standardize on Synplicity's Synplify Pro®, Amplify® Physical Optimizer™ and Certify® products across Flextronics' worldwide design services organization. The three-year deal provides Flextronics with the worldwide ability to support their customers' design projects with Synplicity's industry-leading FPGA synthesis and prototyping tools. In addition, the two companies have agreed to work closely to ensure compatibility between Synplicity's Synplify ASIC® software and Flextronics' standard ASIC flow. The agreement also provides Flextronics' engineers with training by Synplicity personnel in the United States and Europe to ensure their proficiency with Synplicity® solutions.
"By choosing Synplicity's industry-leading products, we can assure our customers that we are using the very best tools to achieve the high performance required by today's system designs," said Vig Sherrill, vice president and general manager of ASIC Design Services, Flextronics. "In our internal benchmarks, the performance levels and quality of results delivered by Synplicity's Synplify Pro products have proven to be the best overall solution. Working with Synplicity we expect to benefit from their innovation and proven performance to accelerate our ability to bring our customer's products to market in the shortest time possible."
"We are very pleased that Flextronics has chosen to standardize on our FPGA synthesis and ASIC prototyping tools," said Gary Meyers, vice president worldwide sales, Synplicity. "We are confident Synplicity's tools can play a significant role in helping Flextronics increase its FPGA design services engagements worldwide."
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 networking and communications, computer and peripheral, consumer and military/aerospace electronics systems. Recognizing the company's industry-leading position, Dataquest named Synplicity as the #1 provider of PLD synthesis tools in 2000 with a 45 percent market share. Synplicity 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. The company'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 March 31, 2002, Synplicity employed 269 people in its 20 facilities worldwide. Synplicity is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information on Synplicity, visit http://www.synplicity.com.
About Flextronics Design
Flextronics Design, a business unit of Flextronics International, is a leading global provider of engineering design services delivering complete system-level solutions. With 26 locations worldwide and over 1,400 design engineers, Flextronics Design offers expertise in FPGA and SOC ASIC Design, embedded system design including hardware and software, PCB design and layout, RF design, industrial and mechanical design, tooling, test development, design validation testing and compliance & regulatory test engineering. Designing products with the knowledge available to one of the world's largest manufacturers, Flextronics Design provides improved product performance, functionality and manufacturability to its customers while simultaneously lowering costs and reducing time-to-market. For further information, please visit http://www.flextronics.com/design/.
The specific features and functionality of any products and joint development effort with third-parties as described in this press release remain at the sole discretion of Synplicity, Inc. and Synplicity does not make any warranty as to when or if specific features and functionalities of such products or the success of joint development efforts with third-parties will occur as described in this press release.
Synplicity Press Contact:
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Synplicity Reader Contact:
Jeff Garrison
Synplicity, Inc.
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Flextronics Reader Contact:
Donna Fedor
Flextronics
408/576-7850
donna.fedor@flextronics.com
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Synplicity, Synplify Pro, Synplify ASIC, Amplify and Certify are registered trademarks of Synplicity, Inc. Physical Optimizer is a trademark of Synplicity, Inc. All other names mentioned herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their owners.
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