Synplicity (MM) (NASDAQ:SYNP)
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Synplicity Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP), a leading supplier of solutions for the
design and verification of semiconductors, today revealed new product
capabilities, widespread customer adoption and exploding demand for its
Confirma™ ASIC/ASSP Verification Platform.
Since the introduction of the Confirma Platform just six months ago,
Synplicity has received over one hundred orders with leading electronics
companies worldwide, including the BBC, and has received dozens of
positive reports from global design teams who have shaved months off
their design times.
Additionally, the company’s Certify®
tool, the de facto standard for multi-FPGA partitioning and
implementation and a key element in the Confirma Platform, has
experienced its biggest year over year revenue gain since its
introduction and its best year ever in 2007. This overwhelming response
is a great endorsement for the Confirma Platform as a viable new
verification methodology, and also validates the trend towards
hardware-assisted verification for the successful delivery of today’s
complex ASIC and ASSP designs.
Confirma is the industry’s only complete
prototyping solution combining best-in-class hardware and software tools
in a tightly integrated, easy-to-use environment helping customers
overcome their toughest ASIC verification challenges. In addition to the
Certify tool, the Confirma Platform includes Synplicity’s
Identify® Pro software with TotalRecall™
technology providing full visibility into the design under test.
Confirma also includes the company’s HAPS™
High-performance ASIC Prototyping System™;
the most flexible prototyping boards on the market today as used by
leading electronics organizations such as CSR. Synplicity continually
updates the Confirma Platform with tighter integration and new product
capabilities for a seamless transition and implementation of ASIC
designs into the Confirma at-speed verification platform.
New features include:
Updated board files, shipped with Certify, that provide specific
details about the HAPS board topology thus ensuring a smooth
implementation of the design and the best possible performance
Additional board trace delays to further optimize the system behavior
of the design under test implemented, and running on HAPS
Automatic insertion of pin multiplexing, between multiple FPGAs on one
board and also between multiple HAPS boards, with minimal impact on
overall system performance
Complete Methodology Replaces Ad-Hoc Approaches
Previous ASIC prototyping methods involved selecting different hardware
and software tools from various vendors, ensuring these tools were
adequate to address a designer’s verification
requirements and, finally, creating an ad-hoc flow for tool
interoperability. The Confirma Platform takes FPGA-based prototyping to
the next level in terms of usability and productivity by transforming it
into a tightly integrated, comprehensive at-speed verification solution.
Moreover, the company’s worldwide sales and
support structure provides local services to help design teams take full
advantage of the Confirma solution for a particular ASIC or ASSP design.
Today, local Synplicity FAEs are working with customers to unleash the
full potential of prototyping for ASIC verification, software
development and system integration to help them successfully deliver
sophisticated products and compete in today’s
global markets.
According to Andy Haines, senior vice president of marketing for
Synplicity, “Nearly all of today’s
ASICs are being prototyped in some form or another by stitching together
hardware and software from different vendors. Going forward, we will
continue to offer a comprehensive, integration solution through our
Confirma Platform and our worldwide sales and support infrastructure
will help deliver its value to our customers. As a result, we expect to
quickly gain share in what we estimate to be a $220 million market —
Synplicity’s largest market opportunity ever.”
About Synplicity
Synplicity®, Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP)
is a leading supplier of innovative IC design and verification solutions
that serve a wide range of communications, military/aerospace,
semiconductor, consumer, computer, and other electronic applications
markets. Synplicity's FPGA implementation tools provide outstanding
performance, cost and time-to-market benefits by simplifying, improving
and automating logic synthesis, physical synthesis, analysis and debug
for programmable logic designs. Synplicity's ESL synthesis solutions
significantly improve productivity for DSP designs realized in ASIC and
FPGA devices. The Confirma™ at-speed
verification platform, comprising software tools and the HAPS™
family of prototyping systems, enables both comprehensive verification
of ASIC, ASSP and SoC designs and software development prior to chip
tapeout. Synplicity is the number one supplier of FPGA synthesis tools
and its physical synthesis and ASIC verification technologies are the
recipients of several prestigious industry awards. The company operates
in more than 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 Confirma™ ASIC/ASSP
Verification Platform. In some cases, you will be able to identify
forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may,”
“will,” “should,”
“expects,” “can,”
“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 and changing
technical requirements and customer demands in the FPGA and ASIC
markets. 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, 2006 and the quarterly report on Form 10-Q for
the three months ended September 30, 2007, as filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, as well as other periodic reports filed with
the SEC from time to time. Although Synplicity believes that the
expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable,
Synplicity cannot guarantee the future performance or achievements of
its products. 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, Certify, and Identify are registered trademarks of
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