Summit Design Integrates Visual Elite With Synchronicity Developer Suite
Integrated Solution Proven by MBDA France and Now Widely Available
MARLBORO, Mass. - October 7, 2002 - Synchronicity, Inc. and Summit Design today announced the integration of the Synchronicity® Developer Suite design collaboration and management solution with Summit's Visual Elite. Together, the tools allow ASIC and FPGA developers to collaborate on design definition and verification, even across multiple sites, while supplying the information project managers need to ensure project success.
The integrated tools are currently in use at MBDA France to develop system-chips combining unique and high-value functional blocks. MBDA's design teams use Visual Elite to specify, simulate and debug complex designs, while making best use of their geographically dispersed design centers by using DesignSync to manage design data from the beginning of the design process through to physical implementation. Consistent data views are available to all designers, regardless of their location.
"MBDA France is a leader in the development of smart air-to-ground weapons and of a wide range of missiles," said Philippe Butel director of ASIC design at MBDA France. "To maintain that leadership, MDBA France has developed key skills in complex embedded systems design for highly integrated electronics, for real-time image processing, auto-pilot and missile guidance applications. To support this complex, geographically dispersed development environment, we need well-adapted tools and methodologies such as the Summit/Synchronicity integration."
Summit and Synchronicity have integrated the design management tools found in the Developer Suite, DesignSync, into the Visual Elite user interface. Visual Elite provides IC and system designers with a comprehensive environment to capture design concepts graphically and textually to verify design behavior. DesignSync makes design data available to the entire project team, no matter where they are located, in a safe and managed manner. The other component of the Developer Suite, ProjectSync, enables multisite project tracking, communications and collaboration.
"Summit's Visual Elite provides a comprehensive view of a design from high-level specifications, through to verification and partitioning," said Paul Gibson, vice president of European operations at Synchronicity. "This integration is a great example of how leading edge design tools can tap the potential of Synchronicity's collaborative design management platform. "Summit has done a great job of working with us and our mutual customers to make sure that we have a high quality interface that satisfies customer requirements."
"Synchronicity's design management platform is an effective tool to maximize Visual Elite's benefits in the design of complex ICs across a distributed design flow," said Rami Rachamim, director of marketing at Summit. "Synchronicity's Network Effect Partner Program has been a great help and assured interoperability between our products leading to the implementation of Summit's methodology at MBDA."
About Summit Design
Summit Design is a leading international supplier of software products that address engineering challenges met during the specification and implementation phases of complex hardware/software systems. The company is privately held with primary investment from Divestiture Growth Capital, a leading technology investment fund dedicated to buying, financing, and growing information technology divestitures. The world's top electronics companies use Summit Design's products to increase engineering productivity, shorten time to market, and improve product quality. Summit Design is headquartered in Boston, Mass. with offices in Europe and Israel.
Note to editors: Summit Design, Visual Elite, Visual IP, Regent, Virtual-CPU, HDL Score, Genie Elite are trademarks of Summit Design, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.
About Synchronicity
Synchronicity enables IC, embedded software and system developers to get from concept to product to revenue more quickly. Their Developer and Publisher Suites provide value by tracking project status, capturing design intent, managing engineering data and coordinating IP reuse, distribution and support. Over 120 development organizations, including 13 of the top 15 semiconductor companies, use Synchronicity software to connect and manage their design chain; boosting collaboration within project teams, across the enterprise and between businesses. Synchronicity is headquartered in Marlboro, MA and has offices worldwide. For more information visit www.synchronicity.com
Synchronicity, DesignSync, ProjectSync and the Synchronicity Logo are registered trademarks and HLD Developer Suite, SoC Developer Suite, Physical Developer Suite, Hierarchical Configuration Manager, IP Gear and Vault-to-Vault are trademarks of Synchronicity Software Inc. of Marlboro, MA. All other trademarks are acknowledged.
For more information contact:
Trent Poltronetti
Synchronicity Inc
(408) 817-9600 x232
trent@synchronicity.com
Karen Tyrrell
VitalCom PR
(650) 637-8212 x204
karen@vitalcompr.com
Rami Rachamim
Summit Design, Ltd.
972-9-970-8703
Rami@sd.com
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