Full Support for New Xilinx High-Performance Virtex-5 Devices

Synplicity's Synplify Pro software provides timing-driven synthesis that enables designers to take full advantage of the speed, capacity and versatility of the new highly-integrated Xilinx Virtex-5 LX

Platform in a fast and efficient manner. Early access software is available now from Synplicity and Xilinx with general availability in June 2006.



Algorithmic changes have been made to the Synplify Pro software, allowing users to maximize the performance and logic density of Virtex-5 LX devices, which offer up to 330,000 logic cells, 10-Mb of on-chip memory, 1,200 I/Os and a host of hardened intellectual property blocks all tuned to 550 MHz.

The Synplify Pro algorithms have been tuned for the unique Virtex-5 architecture, including efficient utilization of the new ExpressFabricT technology with the look-up table (LUT) structure with six independent inputs to reduce levels of logic. The Synplify Pro tool also now contains enhanced capability for automatically inferring optimal memory and digital signal processing (DSP) functionality to maximize the new high performance memory architecture and DSP48E block with wider multipliers embedded in Virtex-5 LX FPGAs. The Synplify® 8.6 software is available now.



In a related announcement , Synplicity and Xilinx also announced a joint engineering Task Force focused on providing new design flows to further maximize the quality of results and design productivity of ultra high-density designs with next-generation 65-nm FPGAs.