Synthesis

Synthesis is one of the most essential steps in your design methodology. It takes your conceptual Hardware Description Language (HDL) design definition and generates the logical or physical representation for the targeted silicon device. ISE™ software even allows for designs that contain a mixture of VHDL and Verilog.

RTL Synthesis Tools

Logic synthesis for FPGA and CPLD design.

• XST
  ISE HDL synthesis delivered with all configuration of ISE.

• Mentor Graphic® LeonardoSpectrum™
  Xilinx provides seamless integration to LeonardoSpectrum from Mentor Graphics in the ISE design environment.

• Mentor Graphic Precision® RTL Synthesis
  Mentor Graphics Precision Synthesis platform offers push-button synthesis flow with automated configuration.

• Synplicity® Synplify Pro®
  Designed to meet your aggressive timing goals with lower speed grade when targeting any Xilinx FPGAs.

Physical Synthesis

Physical synthesis is the next-generation synthesis creating a placed and routable circuit from the HDL code that meets the performance goals of the design in one pass by merging logical synthesis and physical implementation technologies. This often resolves timing closure problems when designs cannot meet their realistic timing objectives by using more traditional design methodologies.

• Physical Synthesis Tools
  The seamless integration between the physical timing information and the multiple physical synthesis engines delivers the best-optimized result of your programmable logic design.

• Mentor Graphics Precision Physical Synthesis
  Mentor Graphics' Precision Physical Synthesis provides both RTL synthesis and physical capabilities in one tool.