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Synplicity Announces Full Support for New High-Performance Virtex-5 Devices From Xilinx; Synplify Pro Software Delivers Best-in-Class Synthesis Support for Industry's First 65-nm FPGAs
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May 15, 2006—
Synplicity, Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP), a leading supplier of
software for the design and verification of semiconductors, today
announced that the latest version of its Synplify Pro(R) synthesis
software provides full support for the industry's first 65-nanometer
(nm) Virtex(TM)-5 FPGA family introduced separately today by Xilinx,
Inc. Synplicity's Synplify Pro software provides timing-driven
synthesis that enables designers to take full advantage of the speed,
capacity and versatility of the new highly-integrated Xilinx Virtex-5
LX Platform in a fast and efficient manner. Early access software is
available now from Synplicity and Xilinx with general availability in
June 2006.
Algorithmic changes have been made to the Synplify Pro software,
allowing users to maximize the performance and logic density of
Virtex-5 LX devices, which offer up to 330,000 logic cells, 10-Mb of
on-chip memory, 1,200 I/Os and a host of hardened intellectual
property blocks all tuned to 550 MHz. The Synplify Pro algorithms have
been tuned for the unique Virtex-5 architecture, including efficient
utilization of the new ExpressFabric(TM) technology with the look-up
table (LUT) structure with six independent inputs to reduce levels of
logic. The Synplify Pro tool also now contains enhanced capability for
automatically inferring optimal memory and digital signal processing
(DSP) functionality to maximize the new high performance memory
architecture and DSP48E block with wider multipliers embedded in
Virtex-5 LX FPGAs.
"We have worked closely with Xilinx over the past year to ensure
optimal support of the Synplify Pro tool for the new Virtex-5
devices," stated John Gallagher, Director Outbound Marketing at
Synplicity. "These devices will offer unprecedented levels of speed
and capacity, making them an attractive solution for a broader range
of applications. We believe that the enhanced optimizations built into
the Synplify Pro software, along with its timing-driven approach to
synthesis, will allow designers to push the performance of their
complex designs while remaining comfortably within their
time-to-market goals."
"Our new Virtex-5 FPGA family delivers compelling gains in
performance and density through innovations in process technology,
device architecture and product development methodology -- with speeds
on average 30 percent higher and 65 percent increased capacity over
previous generation FPGAs," said Steve Lass, senior director of
Software Product Marketing at Xilinx. "Synplicity's early access
software support for our Virtex-5 LX Platform and commitment to
providing best-in-class design tools and methodologies will enable
designers to rapidly deploy 65-nm devices to meet the system
requirements of a wide range of high performance applications."
In a related announcement today, Synplicity and Xilinx also
announced a joint engineering Task Force focused on providing new
design flows to further maximize the quality of results and design
productivity of ultra high-density designs with next-generation 65-nm
FPGAs.
Pricing and Availability
The Synplify(R) 8.6 software is available now. Pricing for the
Synplify software starts at $9,500 (U.S.). For more information visit
Synplicity's Web site at http://www.synplicity.com.
About Synplicity
Synplicity(R) Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP) is a leading supplier of
innovative software solutions that enable the rapid and effective
design of Programmable Logic Devices (FPGAs, PLDs and CPLDs) that
serve a wide range of communications, military/aerospace, consumer,
semiconductor, computer, and other electronic systems markets.
Synplicity's tools provide outstanding performance, cost and
time-to-market benefits by simplifying, improving and automating key
design planning, logic synthesis, physical synthesis and verification
functions for FPGA, FPGA-based ASIC verification, and DSP designers.
Synplicity is the number one supplier of FPGA synthesis solutions and
has been rated #1 in customer satisfaction in 2004 and 2005 in EE
Times' Annual FPGA Customer Survey. Synplicity products support
industry-standard design languages (VHDL and Verilog) and run on
popular platforms. The company operates in over 20 facilities
worldwide and 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, achievements
and benefits of the latest version of the Synplify Pro software used
in conjunction with third party products. 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 results to differ materially
from the forward-looking statements, including the performance and
benefits of Synplicity's software relative to relevant industry
methods or standards, design flaws, design difficulties or other
problems with Synplicity's software and the growth and changing
technical requirements in the FPGA 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, 2005 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, Synplify and Synplify Pro are registered trademarks of
Synplicity Inc. All other brands or products are the trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Contact:
Synplicity Inc.
John Gallagher, 408-215-6000
Email Contact
or
Porter Novelli
Steve Gabriel, 408-369-4627 (PR Contact)
Email Contact
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