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Synplicity Extends Leadership Position in FPGA Synthesis by Delivering Greater Quality of Results in Latest Release
Enhanced Synplify and Amplify FPGA Software Offer Higher Levels of
Area Optimization and Timing Performance for Industry-Leading FPGAs
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—June 28, 2004—
Synplicity(R) Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP), a leading supplier of software
for the design and verification of semiconductors, today announced it
has enhanced the latest versions of its Synplify(R) FPGA synthesis and
Amplify(R) FPGA physical synthesis software to deliver significantly
higher quality of results (QoR) improvements for complex FPGA devices.
With these enhancements to its industry-leading FPGA synthesis
software, Synplicity believes designers will experience improvements
in their devices' timing performance, as well as achieve significant
area/cost advantages. On average, the latest version of the Synplify
software enables users to achieve a ten percent area optimization
improvement for Altera's low-cost Cyclone(TM) FPGA devices and a five
percent improvement on timing performance for Xilinx's Virtex-II Pro
Platform FPGA devices, compared with previous versions of the
software. Designers using devices from other FPGA vendors are expected
to experience similar improvements. With these improved results,
designers can maximize design performance, often enabling them to use
a lower speed grade device, which can save tens of thousands of
dollars in silicon costs.
"We believe this announcement furthers Synplicity's FPGA synthesis
leadership position and delivers on the company's goal to consistently
provide our customers with best-in-class quality of results," said
Jeff Garrison, director of marketing for FPGA products at Synplicity.
"The latest versions of our software emphasize area optimization for
low-cost devices such as Altera's Cyclone and Xilinx's Spartan
families, resulting in significant cost reduction opportunities, while
improving timing optimization for high-capacity FPGAs, such as
Altera's Stratix(R) II, Xilinx's Virtex-II Pro and Actel's ProASIC
Plus. Our timing-driven synthesis algorithms allow users to specify
the performance required and then optimize for area once their speed
is met, resulting in a cost-effective implementation."
"With Synplicity's synthesis and physical synthesis software,
customers now have access to leading-edge tools and design flows that
maximize performance, but also result in smaller designs," said Tim
Southgate, Altera's vice president of software and tools marketing.
"Synplicity's efforts on area optimization for our low-cost Cyclone
family deliver even more cost savings for our customers."
According to Steve Lass, director, software marketing at Xilinx,
Inc., "Synplicity continues to deliver FPGA synthesis products that
offer excellent quality of results and productivity advantages
specifically optimized for our high-performance devices. By adding
enhancements, such as the improved RAM inferencing, to the latest
versions of its synthesis software, Synplicity will enable our mutual
customers to achieve even greater timing performance for our Virtex-II
Pro and Spartan-3 families than was possible with previous versions."
Enhancements to the Synplify software include improved support for
mixed-language designs; enhanced RAM inferencing; hierarchical area
reporting for RAMs, DSP and black boxes; and clock enable extraction
for ALTSYNCRAM in Altera devices. In addition, the Amplify physical
synthesis software now provides enhanced timing correlation between
pre- and post-results, leading to fewer synthesis and place-and-route
iterations. Test cases show more than 90 percent of the designs run
had estimation differences within ten percent of the final post
place-and-route timing numbers. The enhancements made to the latest
versions of Synplicity's FPGA synthesis and physical synthesis
software provide designers with the capability to quickly converge on
aggressive timing for even the most complex devices, resulting in the
highest quality of results.
Pricing and Availability
The Synplify 7.6 and Amplify 3.6 software are available now.
Pricing starts at $9,500 (U.S.) for the Synplify software and $29,000
(U.S.) for the Amplify FPGA software. For more information visit
Synplicity's Web site at http://www.synplicity.com.
About Synplicity
Synplicity Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP) is a leading supplier of innovative
synthesis, verification and physical implementation software solutions
that enable the rapid and effective design and verification of
semiconductors. Synplicity's high-quality, high-performance tools
significantly reduce costs and time-to-market for FPGA,
Structured/Platform ASIC and cell-based/COT ASIC designers. The
company's underlying Behavior Extracting Synthesis Technology(R)
(BEST(TM)), which is embedded in its logical, physical and
verification tools, and has led to Synplicity's top position in FPGA
synthesis, now provides the same fast runtimes and quality of results
to ASIC and COT customers. The company's fast, easy-to-use products
support industry standard design languages (VHDL and Verilog) and run
on popular platforms. Synplicity employs over 270 people in its 20
facilities worldwide. Synplicity is headquartered in Sunnyvale,
California. For more information visit http://www.synplicity.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements including,
but not limited to, statements regarding the performance and
achievements of Synplicity's Synplify 7.6 and Amplify 3.6 software and
Synplicity's synthesis leadership position. In some cases, you will be
able to identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as
"may," "will," "should," "expects," "believes" or the negative of
these terms or other comparable terminology. These statements are only
predictions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and
other factors that may cause the actual achievements or performance of
the Synplify 7.6 and Amplify 3.6 software or Synplicity's industry
position to differ materially from the forward-looking statements,
including the performance and quality of Synplicity's software
products relative to other comparable software, latent defects, design
flaws or other problems with the Synplify 7.6 and Amplify 3.6 software
and the growth and changing technical requirements in the programmable
semiconductor market. For additional information and considerations
regarding the risks faced by Synplicity, see its annual report on Form
10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003 as filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, as well as other periodic reports filed with
the SEC from time to time, including its quarterly reports on Form
10-Q. Although Synplicity believes that the expectations reflected in
the forward-looking statements are reasonable, Synplicity cannot
guarantee the future performance or achievements of its software. In
addition, neither Synplicity nor any other person assumes
responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of these
forward-looking statements. Synplicity disclaims any obligation to
update information contained in any forward-looking statement.
Synplicity, Behavior Extracting Synthesis Technology, Synplify and
Amplify are registered trademarks of Synplicity Inc. BEST is a
trademark of Synplicity Inc. All other brands or products are the
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Contact:
Synplicity Inc.
Jeff Garrison, 408-215-6000 (Reader)
jeff@synplicity.com
or
Porter Novelli
Steve Gabriel, 408-369-1500 (PR)
steve.gabriel@porternovelli.com
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