Synplicity Joins Xilinx ESL Design Ecosystem

“We are very happy to join the Xilinx ESL Initiative,” said Joe Gianelli, vice president of business development, Synplicity. “During the past 18 months, this initiative has gone a long way in providing FPGA users with access to a comprehensive ESL design flow. We’re glad to be part of the industry’s transition to ESL design and pleased to be part of Xilinx’s best-in-class tool ecosystem for advanced FPGA designers.”

The Synplify DSP environment facilitates high-level modeling and hardware abstraction, constraint-driven algorithm synthesis into RTL and powerful system-wide optimizations for performance, area, and multi-channelization tradeoff exploration. It helps designers capture multi-rate DSP algorithms quickly and easily, perform architectural exploration across multiple devices and create algorithmic IP that is highly portable and re-usable. As a result, users can easily map their DSP algorithms into any Xilinx device. The Synplify DSP tool includes integration to Xilinx System Generator for DSP™ to allow blocks created using Synplify DSP software to be easily integrated with Xilinx IP, connected to Xilinx embedded processors and verified on Xilinx hardware boards using hardware co-simulation.

Synplify DSP software provides users of the MathWorks Simulink® environment, an environment for multi-domain simulation and model-based design, with a highly optimized approach for the implementation of DSP algorithms into silicon. With M-Control fully integrated into the Synplify DSP library and the MathWorks Simulink environment, data type and sample rate inheritance and propagation is fully supported. M-Control features inline debugging for supporting breakpoints and stepping into the M code. These features greatly simplify the specification and verification of control functionality that is often integrated into DSP algorithms. Moreover, with a comprehensive IP library of industry-standard functional blocks, such as FFTs, Viterbi decoders, DDS and CORDIC math functions, designers rapidly can create designs in application-specific domains.

“We are pleased to welcome Synplicity as one of our Xilinx ESL Initiative members,” said Steve Lass, senior director software marketing at Xilinx. “Based on the growing popularity of the Simulink-based approach for DSP algorithm design and Synplify DSP's unique architectural exploration and advanced optimization, we are happy to include the first vendor independent SimuLink-based ESL synthesis flow—Synplify DSP.”