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Design Compiler FPGA
Synopsys takes another stab at FPGA synthesis
By Mike Santarini
EE Times
March 15, 2004 (11:00 AM EST)
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Synopsys' pricing for Design Compiler FPGA starts at $29,000 and will announce this week.
The product lets Design Compiler implement ASIC designs in FPGA devices without changing RTL code, synthesis constraints, scripts or ASIC intellectual property.
The tool also includes a feature called Adaptive Optimization that implements a design in FPGAs.
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Earlier FPGA synthesis efforts by Synopsys failed.
It introduced FPGA Compiler in 1992,
the Windows-based FPGA Express in 1996 and
FPGA Compiler II in the late 1990s,
but those tools did not grab significant business from Synplicity or Exemplar Logic (Mentor Graphics acquired Exemplar in 1999).
FPGA Express is now defunct;
Synopsys still sells FPGA Compiler II, but for smaller FPGAs.
Synopsys takes another stab at FPGA synthesis
By Mike Santarini
EE Times
March 15, 2004 (11:00 AM EST)
**broken link removed**
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Synopsys' pricing for Design Compiler FPGA starts at $29,000 and will announce this week.
The product lets Design Compiler implement ASIC designs in FPGA devices without changing RTL code, synthesis constraints, scripts or ASIC intellectual property.
The tool also includes a feature called Adaptive Optimization that implements a design in FPGAs.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Earlier FPGA synthesis efforts by Synopsys failed.
It introduced FPGA Compiler in 1992,
the Windows-based FPGA Express in 1996 and
FPGA Compiler II in the late 1990s,
but those tools did not grab significant business from Synplicity or Exemplar Logic (Mentor Graphics acquired Exemplar in 1999).
FPGA Express is now defunct;
Synopsys still sells FPGA Compiler II, but for smaller FPGAs.