Synplicity Supports Xilinx FPGAs

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Synplicity, Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP), a leading supplier of software for the design and verification of semiconductors, today announced support of Xilinx, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:XLNX) new class of 90nm Spartan® FPGA solutions – the Spartan-3 platform, which was announced April 14, 2003. Synplicity has optimized its Synplify® and Synplify Pro® FPGA synthesis software to provide a fast, easy-to-use solution for quickly reaching timing and cost goals for Xilinx’s new lowest-cost Spartan-3 FPGAs. With this announcement, Synplicity, a founding member of the Xilinx AllianceEDA program, continues to provide optimal support for Xilinx’s family of programmable logic devices and reaffirms its commitment to provide its mutual customers with best-in-class RTL-based solutions tailored for Xilinx’s high-density, low-cost programmable logic devices."We constantly work with our FPGA customers to help them lower their development effort and bill of materials costs by providing high performance, high productivity solutions,” said Jeff Garrison, director of marketing for FPGA products at Synplicity. “We believe this new class of low-cost Spartan-3 devices is targeting a larger portion of the total programmable IC market and our FPGA synthesis solutions are well suited to meet the needs of designers using Spartan-3 devices. We believe our FPGA synthesis technology, coupled with Xilinx’s place and route software, will enable our customers to use lower cost devices while quickly reaching their capacity and performance goals.” The Synplify and Synplify Pro software helps programmable logic designers achieve aggressive performance and cost objectives. The Synplify and Synplify Pro software takes designs written in VHDL or Verilog as input, and compiles, optimizes and maps them into efficient, high-performance netlists for Xilinx’s CPLD and FPGA devices. The software offers high quality of results and fast runtimes along with an expanded feature set optimized to increase area utilization for today’s complex programmable devices. Spartan-3 users can directly benefit from Synplicity’s FPGA synthesis solutions by enabling them to implement their design into a lower cost device, compared with other synthesis tools.Synplicity Inc.