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Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Synplicity | Subject: Certify 6.0
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 11 March 2002

Standard board support simplifies
prototyping

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Synplicity has enhanced its Certify verification synthesis software to offer support for off-the-shelf commercially available prototype boards.

Synplicity has enhanced its Certify verification synthesis software to offer support for off-the-shelf commercially available prototype boards And, to deliver a so-called pushbutton prototyping flow, the company has also enhanced the Certify software's quick partitioning technology (QPT) and automated the Certify pin-multiplier (CPM) feature, enabling, for the first time, an automated design flow for prototyping with off-the-shelf multi-FPGA boards

Certify software now offers a tight connection to standard prototyping hardware from leading vendors and includes integrated software files for some of the most popular boards.

Using the new version of the software with an off-the-shelf prototyping board, Synplicity believes designers can develop a functional ASIC prototype in hours rather than days or weeks.

"There is little question that prototypes offer myria