Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Cypress Semiconductor | Subject: Warp Release 6.3
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 12 August 2002
Design synthesis joins
CPLD development tools
The LeonardoSpectrum design synthesis tool from Mentor Graphics has been integrated with Cypress's Warp Release 6.3 development environment to support designs using Quantum38K family of CPLDs
The LeonardoSpectrum design synthesis tool from Mentor Graphics has been integrated with Cypress's Warp Release 6.3 development environment to support designs using the Cypress Quantum38K family of CPLDs. VHDL or Verilog designers now have the option of using either the Mentor Graphics LeonardoSpectrum or the Cypress Warp development environment to optimise their CPLD designs for communications systems.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 August 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Support for Quantum38K from Mentor Graphics allows Cypress customers to have access to a leading synthesis tool for our newest family of communications CPLDs", said Geoff Charubin, Director of Marketing for Cypress's Data Communications Division.
"Our goal is to allow designers to target a Cypress CPLD with any synthesis tool they are comfortable with, while they take advantage of Warp software's advanced fitting algorithms and analysis tools".
LeonardoSpectrum's support, previously provided for Cypress's Flash370i, Ultra37000 and Delta39K CPLDs, combines pushbutton ease-of-use with the powerful control and optimisation features in a fast, efficient synthesis environment.
LeonardoSpectrum replaces arithmetic, relational and memory operators with models optimised for Cypress CPLDs.
Warp then builds the most efficient circuit using advanced fitting algorithms and user preferences.
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"Mentor Graphics customers now have access to another leading CPLD family for their designs", said Simon Bloch, general manager for the Mentor Graphics Synthesis Business Unit.
"We are committed to providing synthesis support for Cypress CPLD families to minimise designers' development time and cost using our tools and their products".
The Quantum38K family of CPLDs offers designers a range of devices with 30,000 to 100,000 gates with 512 to 1536 macrocells and 16 to 48Kbit of embedded memory, all in a simple migration path of compatible footprints.
In addition, the family is footprint compatible with Cypress's Delta39K CPLD Family, which allows an additional migration path to features such as increased speed options, additional I/O standard support, phase locked loops (PLLs) and increased memory.
High density Quantum38K CPLDs offer the industry's lowest standby power and operate at either 2.5 or 3.3V.
Their programmable I/O structure allows them to interface with several other devices supporting different I/O standards and different operating voltages (1.8 to 3.3V) at the same time.
Users will require a copy of LeonardoSpectrum 2002.b, available for download at the Mentor Graphics website, www.mentor.com/synthesis/ and a copy of Cypress's Warp Release 6.3 software, available for download at http://www.cypress.com.
LeonardoSpectrum 2002 runs on the Windows NT/98/2000, Sun Solaris and HP-UX platforms.
The design tool is also available as part of the FPGA Advantage design solution from Mentor Graphics.
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