SANTA CLARA, CA -- OCTOBER 4, 2005
HARDI Electronics Inc., the leader in platform-based ASIC prototyping, announced today at the ARM Developer’s Conference the availability of a new series of motherboards with unmatched performance and capacity. Based on the largest Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs, the HAPS-34 helps both ASIC and ASSP designers to verify their designs quickly and accurately by leveraging the best-in-class I/O connectivity and best-in-class flexibility of the HAPS family of motherboards and daughter boards.

While competitive fixed-configuration ASIC prototyping products offer hundreds of user configurable I/Os, the HAPS-34 platform motherboard offers designers nearly 3,000 user-configurable I/Os. The HAPS motherboards also offer the industry’s only modular system with expandable capacity. Each motherboard can handle designs from 3-6 million ASIC gates. The boards can be stacked like Legos™ to increase capacity to any size ASIC. No other system on the market today has that level of flexibility.

"We are very pleased to introduce the first of our 3rd generation HAPS motherboards, and to once again provide more ASIC prototyping functionality at a lower cost," said Lars-Eric Lundgren, HARDI CEO. "Our worldwide customer base is constantly demanding more capacity and higher performance. HAPS-34 is the most advanced high capacity FPGA board ever built. I am proud to announce that our design team finished the first board in the HAPS-30 family just 9 months after we released the previous HAPS-20 family. To me, HAPS-34 is a work of art."

HAPS addresses critical issues regarding prototyping board design such as cross-talk, signal integrity, impedance matching, connectivity problems, gate capacity and system speed. The HAPS-34 board can be used as a stand-alone device to prototype ASIC designs up to six million ASIC gates. Connecting two or more HAPS-34 boards together can further increase capacity to virtually any size. In addition, the HAPS-30 family conforms to the HapsTrak Standard, which guarantees compatibility with previous and future generations of HAPS motherboards and daughter boards, including user developed daughter boards.

HAPS-34 uses four Xilinx Virtex-4 XC4VLX100/160/200 devices in the largest pin count package, offering 3,000 user I/Os and a signaling rate of 1Gbps (LVDS) or 600Mbps (single ended). The HAPS-34 has 9 I/O-voltage regions on board. The voltage regions can be individually set to 3.3V, 2.5V, 1.8V or 1.5V. All power is generated from a single 5V power source. HAPS-34 also has 20 global low skew clock signals driven from a variety of sources.

"The HAPS-34 leverages our own high level digital design expertise, and the experience gained from developing 2 previous generations of ASIC prototyping platforms and from meeting the needs of our worldwide customers, both large and small," stated Jonas Nilsson, HARDI Technical Manager. "Every single wire on the 20-layer PCB is carefully routed and verified for maximum performance and optimal signal integrity. Once again we are pleased to offer the best I/O connectivity, best flexibility, and highest performance available on the market."

"For in-house prototyping teams the HAPS-34 system provides a reliable, well-documented, highly flexible building block," commented John Hoekstra, HARDI North American Sales Manager. "With the ease of our modular, expandable capacity, prototyping teams can better leverage their expertise making their ASIC HW/SW verification process more robust."

HAPS Leverages Off-The-Shelf Software
HAPS customers get to verification faster by using off-the-shelf software for synthesis, partitioning and debugging - including Synplicity’s Certify which is a complete tool for ASIC prototyping. For Certify, the design flow is fully supported and carefully tested. A complete new set of Certify HAPS partitioning board files are available. For debugging, any of Synplicity's Identify, Temento's DiaLite or Xilinx ChipScope can be used.

For a complete description of features, the HAPS-34 datasheet can be downloaded at:
http://www.synplicity.com/literature/haps/datasheets/haps-34-ds.pdf

For photos of the new motherboard, please visit:
http://www.synplicity.com/products/haps/gallery.html

For sales offices and a list of distributors worldwide, please visit:
http://www.synplicity.com/corporate/globallocations/

About HAPS
HAPS (HARDI ASIC Prototyping System) is the first modular FPGA board system providing high speed, high capacity, real-time debugging and full ASIC functionality for ASIC prototyping designers. The system is composed of multi-FPGA motherboards and standard or user developed daughter boards. To accommodate very large designs, users can connect several mother­boards in many different ways. HAPS boards give designers virtually the same functionality as the ASIC, at speeds approaching that of the ASIC.

About Synplicity
Synplicity®, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYNP) is a leading supplier of innovative software and hardware solutions for the design and verification of semiconductors that serve a wide range of communications, military/aerospace, consumer, semiconductor, computer, and other electronic systems markets. Synplicity's tools provide outstanding performance, cost and time-to-market benefits by simplifying, improving and automating design planning, logic synthesis and physical synthesis for FPGA and DSP designs, as well as at-speed verification and prototyping for ASIC & ASSP designs. Synplicity is the number one supplier of FPGA synthesis solutions and has been rated #1 in customer satisfaction since 2004 in EE Times' Annual FPGA Customer Survey. Synplicity products support industry-standard design languages (VHDL and Verilog) and run on popular platforms. The company operates in over 20 facilities worldwide and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information visit http://www.synplicity.com.

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For more information, contact:
Doug Lyons
North America Marketing
HARDI Electronics Inc.
408-849-4707