Electronics Industry Embraces Synplicity's Confirma Platform for ASIC Verification
March 11 2008 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
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 Synplicity, Inc. TotalRecall, HAPS and
Confirma, are trademarks of Synplicity Inc. All other names
mentioned herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of
their owners.
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