September 5, 2011 -- Synopsys, Inc. and Achronix Semiconductor Corp. have announced a multi-year extension of their OEM agreement for Synopsys FPGA synthesis tools. The agreement continues to make Synopsys' FPGA logic synthesis technology available to Achronix customers by expanding support of Synopsys' Synplify Pro software to Achronix's latest generation of FPGAs, the 22-nm Speedster22i FPGA Platform. Achronix intends to deliver a Speedster22i FPGA-optimized version of Synplify Pro FPGA synthesis software to its customers as part of its Achronix CAD Environment (ACE) software package, to provide designers of these devices with high performance synthesis technology.

The version of Synplify Pro software optimized for Achronix FPGAs contains all the features of the standard version and continues to support the original Speedster family of FPGAs. It is customized to support the technologies of the Speedster22i Platform. software lets FPGA designers achieve aggressive timing goals more quickly than alternative tools due to its unique timing-driven approach to FPGA synthesis. In addition to new optimizations that take advantage of the memory architecture in Speedster22i FPGAs, Synplify Pro software has also been customized with multi-processing for faster turn-around time for these higher capacity devices.

"Achronix provides FPGA solutions targeting high-density and high-performance applications, so it's a natural choice to match their silicon with synthesis tools designed to reach maximum clock speeds," said John Koeter, Vice President of Marketing for Solutions Group at Synopsys. "We have been working closely with Achronix to customize our Synplify Pro synthesis software to capitalize on the features of its new Speedster22i FPGAs. We believe that through this close collaboration, we offer our mutual customers the best environment for producing highly optimized, cost-effective FPGAs."

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