Additionally, the company's Certify(R) 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(R) Pro software with TotalRecall(TM) technology providing full visibility into the design under test. Confirma also includes the company's HAPS(TM) High-performance ASIC Prototyping System(TM); 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(R), 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(TM) at-speed verification platform, comprising software tools and the HAPS(TM) 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 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(TM) 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.
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