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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SYNPLICITY OPTIMIZES INDUSTRY-LEADING SYNPLIFY
PRO SOFTWARE TO ENABLE EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF DSPs INTO XILINX
VIRTEX-4 FPGAS
Synplify Pro Software Delivers Optimal Results
by Taking Full Advantage of Xilinx's Built-In Virtex-4 XtremeDSP
Structures
Visit Synplicity and Xilinx in Booth #371 at the
Design Automation Conference
DESIGN AUTOMATION CONFERENCE, Anaheim, Calif., June 13, 2005
- Synplicity Inc. (Nasdaq: SYNP), a leading supplier of software
for the design and verification of semiconductors, and Xilinx, Inc.
(Nasdaq: XLNX) announce optimizations to Synplicity's industry-leading
Synplify Pro® software that enable designers to efficiently
implement DSP functions into Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGA devices. For example,
FIR filters can be inferred and implemented to operate at 500MHz
using Synplify Pro. Through its knowledge of the Virtex-4 device
architecture, the Synplify Pro software allows users to take advantage
of the many different operating modes of the device family's DSP48
blocks by automatically implementing the XtremeDSP structures as
selected by the designer and exclusive capability to cascade multiple
DSP blocks.
"Designers can achieve optimal DSP implementations using Synplify
Pro 8.1 software," said Jerry Banks, director of business development
and strategic DSP alliances at Xilinx. "The latest optimizations
are the result of our strong ongoing partnership with Synplicity.
Through our relationship, Synplicity has been provided with unique
knowledge of our devices in order to deliver synthesis tools that
allow our mutual customers to realize the best results possible."
With the Synplify Pro software, many commonly used DSP functions
are inferred directly from the designer's HDL code and implemented
directly in Virtex-4 DSP48 blocks through seamless integration with
Xilinx ISE logic design tools. Examples are multiply-accumulate
and multipliers with operands that are a constant. In these cases
the Synplify Pro software infers this behavior from the RTL code
and creates an efficient implementation in the DSP48 block. The
Synplify Pro software can also implement adders with three or more
operands and automatically balance delay between registers within
the DSP48 blocks to improve overall timing performance. In addition,
the software enables designers to take their single HDL source and
quickly retarget different FPGAs from Xilinx. A comprehensive application
note on using Virtex-4 DSP48 blocks with Synplify Pro can be found
at http://www.synplicity.com/literature/pdf/dsp48.pdf.
"The Virtex-4 family of multi-platform FPGAs continue to expand
the types of applications being implemented in programmable logic
and we're thrilled to provide outstanding quality of results to
designers implementing DSPs into their Virtex-4 FPGAs," stated
Jeff Garrison, director of marketing for FPGA products at Synplicity.
"In addition to our new automated DSP features, Synplicity's
timing-driven synthesis technology supports the Virtex-4 devices
with unmatched reductions in area and cost, providing customers
with the broad range of benefits that they've come to expect from
Synplicity."
Pricing and Availability
The new optimizations for the Synplify Pro software are available
now. Pricing for the Synplify Pro software starts at $19,000 (U.S.).
For more information about Synplicity's family of FPGA synthesis
products, visit the company's Web site at http://www.synplicity.com/.
About Synplicity's FPGA Synthesis Solutions
Synplicity's Synplify software helps programmable logic designers
rapidly achieve aggressive performance objectives. The Synplify
software takes designs written in VHDL or Verilog as input, and
compiles, optimizes and maps them into efficient, high-performance
netlists for all leading CPLD and FPGA devices. The Synplify Pro
software offers high quality of results and fast runtimes along
with an expanded feature set optimized to increase performance and
productivity for today's complex programmable devices.
About Xilinx Virtex-4 Platform FPGAs
Named 2004 Product of the Year by Electronic Products Magazine,
Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs deliver more options, higher performance and
lower power than any other FPGA family available today. Manufactured
using the world's first triple-oxide 90nm CMOS technology with 11-layer
metal interconnect, Virtex-4 devices represent a quantum leap in
programmable device architecture, technology, and system design
capabilities. With more than 100 technical innovations, the Virtex-4
family consists of 17 devices and three domain-optimized platforms;
Virtex-4 LX FPGAs optimized for logic-intensive designs, Virtex-4
SX FPGAs optimized for high-performance signal processing, and Virtex-4
FX FPGAs optimized for high-speed serial connectivity and embedded
processing. Devices are shipping now. For more information on the
Virtex-4 product family, visit www.xilinx.com/virtex4.
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® (BEST™), 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 280 people in its 20 facilities worldwide.
Synplicity is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information
visit http://www.synplicity.com.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic
solutions. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements including,
but not limited to, statements regarding Synplicity's performance
in the FPGA market and the performance, achievements and benefits
of the latest versions of the Synplify Pro software, both individually
and 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, 2004 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.
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Synplicity, Behavior Extracting Synthesis Technology,
Synplify and Synplify Pro are registered trademarks of Synplicity
Inc. BEST is a trademark of Synplicity Inc. All other names mentioned
herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their owners.
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