Synplicity Unleashes Advanced Finite State Machine Compiler Capability; New Release of Synplify Offers Major Enhancements and Extends Support To Additional Device Families

Business Wire, Jan 6, 1997

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 1997-- Synplicity, Inc., a leading international supplier of engineering software tools for the creation of electronic systems and integrated circuits using top-down design methodologies, today announced the addition of its Symbolic Finite State Machine (FSM) Compiler to Synplify, making it the first logic synthesis tool to provide fully automatic recognition and re-encoding of FSMs.

Available now, this added functionality improves the efficiency of state machine designs and speeds development.

Demonstrating Synplicity's commitment to continuous improvement in Quality of Results (QoR), benchmarks reveal an additional 10 to 15% performance gain and more than 20% area reduction for some architectures with the new release of Synplify. Also, the latest release of Synplify has expanded device support with the inclusion of AMD's Mach and Lattice Semiconductors ispLSI and pLSI families of CPLD devices, bringing the total to 19 architectures supported by Synplify.

The Symbolic FSM Compiler function in Synplify 2.6b automatically extracts state machines in symbolic form and re-encodes them for optimally performance and area implementation. The Compiler also performs reachability analysis and eliminates unreachable states.

"Although state machines consume little silicon area, they consume a relatively large portion of the design time," said Andy Haines, vice president of marketing for Synplicity. Synplify's Symbolic FSM Compiler speeds development by providing powerful optimizations and analysis reports that accelerate debugging of FSM designs. This provides our customers with faster cycle times, faster time to market and reduced product development costs.

Synplicity's Synplify synthesis tool accepts industry-standard Verilog and VHDL descriptions and produces optimized implementations for programmable devices from vendors including Actel, Altera, AMD, Cypress, Lattice Semiconductor, Lucent Technologies, QuickLogic, and Xilinx.

Designed to be extremely easy to use, Synplify is also extremely fast and memory efficient; benchmarks show it to be 10 to 100 times faster than competing tools, while producing designs with comparable or better performance and area results. Synplify also includes a built-in language-sensitive Editing Window that uses the fast synthesis engine to perform syntax and synthesis checks.

Pricing and Availability

Synplify 2.6b is available now from Synplicity and its international distributors. Pricing starts under $10,000. Synplify runs on both Windows and Unix platforms.

About Synplicity

Founded in 1994, Synplicity, Inc. delivers the benefits of logic synthesis to programmable device designers by developing fast, easy, affordable tools based entirely on the company's own technology.

Synplicity products support industry-standard design languages (VHDL and Verilog), run on popular computer platforms (Windows, '95 and NT; Unix), and support leading manufacturers including Actel, Altera, AMD, Cypress, Lattice Semiconductor, Lucent Technologies, QuickLogic, and Xilinx.

The company is located at 465 Fairchild Drive, Suite 115, Mountain View, Calif., 94043. Telephone: 415/961-4962, Fax: 415/961-4974, Email: info@synplicity.com, Web: http://www.synplicity.com . -0-

Note to Editors: Synplicity and Synplify are trademarks or registered trademarks of Synplicity, Inc. All other brands or products are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their owners.

CONTACT: Synplicity, Inc.

Andy Haines, 415/961-4962

andyh@synplicity.com