San Mateo, Calif. – Already a player in FPGA synthesis, Synplicity Inc. will expand into ASIC physical synthesis this week with a tool that competes against offerings from Synopsys, Cadence and Magma.

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Synplicity Inc. is targeting the ASIC synthesis market after years of dominating FPGA synthesis with an announcement that it is co-developing with LSI Logic an ASIC physical ...

With the emergence of 90-nm process technology, ASIC designers get to explore uncharted levels of performance and density. However, it has also unleashed a slew of challenging design-integrity issues, ...