Synplicity Announces Immediate Support for Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs

  
    
  
  
    
      Synplicity, Inc. (NASDAQ:SYNP), a leading supplier of innovative IC 
      design and verification solutions, today announced that its advanced 
      FPGA synthesis solution Synplify Pro®, 
      now supports Virtex®-5 
      FXT field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) from Xilinx, Inc. 
      (NASDAQ:XLNX), the world’s leading supplier of 
      programmable logic solutions. In addition, Synplicity has created an 
      automated solution for integrating its Synplify Pro FPGA synthesis 
      solution into the Xilinx Embedded Development Kit (EDK) so designers can 
      achieve maximum productivity and quality of results for their embedded 
      system designs.
    
    
      “Our ongoing relationship with Synplicity 
      results in solutions that maximize the capabilities of ultra 
      high-density designs implemented in Xilinx 65-nm Virtex-5 FPGAs,” 
      said Steve Lass, senior director software marketing at Xilinx. “For 
      customers designing with Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs, we advocate the use of the 
      Synplify Pro tool as it provides outstanding timing and area results for 
      these high-performance devices.”
    
    
      The Virtex-5 FXT platform comes with up to two PowerPC® 
      440 processor blocks, high-performance DSP and high-speed serial 
      capabilities to deliver a comprehensive system-integration platform for 
      high-performance applications such as audio/video broadcast, 
      communications, military, aerospace and many others. One of the key 
      reasons software customers targeting Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs get optimal 
      timing and area results using the Synplify Pro tool is because the 
      synthesis algorithms in the product have been developed to take 
      advantage of the 6-input Look Up Tables (LUTs) that characterize the 
      Virtex-5 family. Existing synthesis technology, based upon 4-input LUT 
      architectures, will not be able to deliver optimal results when 
      targeting Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs.
    
    
      “By combining two IBM PowerPC 440 embedded 
      processors with over 190 GMACs of DSP processing horsepower in a single 
      device, Xilinx has created a truly impressive system-integration 
      platform with the Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs,” said 
      Jeff Garrison, senior director of marketing, FPGA Implementation at 
      Synplicity. “The Synplify Pro software, 
      already tightly integrated into the Xilinx ISE and XtremeDSP Development 
      Tools environments, now supports the entire system design flow by 
      supporting the Xilinx embedded development tool, Platform Studio, using 
      a new script-based flow. This flow makes it easy for system designers, 
      with limited FPGA design experience, to achieve optimum results using 
      Synplify Pro.”
    
    
      Pricing and Availability
    
    
      Synplify Pro software support for the Virtex-5 FXT platform is available 
      now and pricing starts at $22,880 (US). Current Synplify Pro software 
      customers on active maintenance will receive support for the new 
      Virtex-5 FXT devices at no extra charge.
    
    
      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 Synplify Pro® 
      and its integration with the Xilinx Embedded Development Kit. 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, 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.
    
    
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