Mountain View, CA - February 26, 1996 - Synplicity, Inc., developers of fast, easy-to-use logic synthesis products for designers using hardware description languages (HDLs), today announced that Topdown Design Solutions, Inc. has been signed to sell and support the company's line of products in the United States and Canada. Topdown will complement Synplicity's focused direct sales effort, and will be the exclusive value-added reseller for Synplicity's Synplify and Synplify-Lite in the Northeast, Mid Atlantic, and Eastern Canadian regions.
Topdown delivers and supports tools and services that ensure HDL design success for system, programmable device, and ASIC designers in all application areas. The company is the leading North American source of sales and support for the Model Technology V-System simulator, and its own internally-developed product line features the SelfStart_Kit VHDL training series and the VBAK family of VHDL generators for Xilinx FPGAs.
Topdown will be a Major Source for Sales and Support of Advanced Synthesis Tools
"Topdown's unusual depth of language-based design experience and their proven commitment to customer success make them the perfect channel for our advanced synthesis tools," said Alisa Yaffa, president of Synplicity. "They helped make Model Technology the leading VHDL simulator, and we have the utmost confidence in their ability to help Synplicity become the number one synthesis provider for programmable logic design."
Synplify Enables High Quality, Easy, and Fast Design from Verilog and VHDL
Synplicity's Synplify synthesis tool accepts Verilog and VHDL descriptions and produces optimized implementations for programmable devices from vendors including Actel, Altera, Cypress, Lucent Technologies (formerly AT&T Microelectronics), QuickLogic, and Xilinx. Designed to be extremely easy to use, Synplify is also extremely fast; benchmarks show it runs 10 to 100 times faster than competing tools, while producing designs with comparable or better performance and area results. It includes a built-in editor that gives direct feedback for fast design debug. Synplify runs on both Windows and Unix platforms.
"Synplify makes HDL synthesis practical for a huge new group of designers," said Art Pisani, president of Topdown Design Solutions, Inc. "We've been helping designers succeed with HDLs for years, and we're extremely pleased to now be adding Synplicity's technology to our portfolio of superior third-party and unique Topdown-developed tools. We believe the combination of Synplify for synthesis and Model Technology for simulation will be unbeatable."
Topdown Design Solutions, Inc. headquarters are at 71 Spit Brook Road, Suite 301, Nashua, New Hampshire, 03060. Phone: (603) 888-8811, Fax: (603) 888-7694, Email: info@topdown.com, Web: http://www.topdown.com.
Founded in February 1994, Synplicity, Inc. delivers the benefits of logic synthesis to programmable device designers by developing fast, easy, affordable tools based entirely on the company's own technology. Synplicity products support industry-standard design languages (VHDL and Verilog), run on popular computer platforms (Windows, '95, and NT; Unix), and support leading manufacturers including Actel, Altera, Cypress, Lucent Technologies, QuickLogic, and Xilinx. The company is located at 465 Fairchild Drive, Suite 115, Mountain View, Calif., 94043. Phone: (415) 961-4962, Fax: (415) 961- 4974, Email: info@synplicity.com, Web: http://www.synplicity.com.
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