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Immediate Release
SYNPLICITY ANNOUNCES IMPROVED PERFORMANCE FOR LATTICE FPGAs
Expansion of OEM and Development Agreement Designed to Produce Superior Results
HILLSBORO, OR and SUNNYVALE, Calif., NOVEMBER 29, 2005 —
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC), a leading supplier of in-
system programmable logic devices, and Synplicity Inc. (Nasdaq: SYNP), a
leading supplier of software for the design and verification of
semiconductors, today announced that the 8.4 version of Synplicity's
Synplify Pro® product will provide additional performance enhancing features
for Lattice Semiconductor's FPGA devices. Designers utilizing the Synplify
Pro 8.4 software along with Lattice Semiconductor's FPGAs can expect to
achieve up to a 20 percent performance improvement and significant area
savings compared to competitive solutions. These improvements are the result
of an ongoing strategic relationship between Lattice and Synplicity that
ensures their mutual customers are provided with the best performance and
time-to-market benefits.
"Our long-standing and close working relationship with Lattice
Semiconductor allows us to provide best-in-class support for all of
Lattice’s newest FPGA device families," said Jeff Garrison,
director of FPGA products at Synplicity. "Our 8.4 release of Synplify
Pro software adds many new performance-enhancing features like pipelining,
re-timing, automatic RAM inferencing and inferring sequential shift
operations in the RTL for implementation in RAM that result in substantial
performance improvements for Lattice FPGAs."
"Performance improvement translates into more effective timing closure
and lower cost solutions for our FPGA customers," said Tim Schnettler,
director of Design Tools Marketing at Lattice Semiconductor.
"Synplicity is an industry leading provider of FPGA software and we
believe our strengthened partnership will be a source of continual
innovation and improvement for years to come."
Joint Lattice Semiconductor and Synplicity Seminar Series
Over the next two quarters, Lattice Semiconductor and Synplicity plan to
hold a seminar series detailing the performance benefits that can be
achieved by using Synplicity's synthesis products with Lattice
Semiconductor's FPGAs and CPLDs. The seminar series will include a technical
discussion about the newest generation of Lattice FPGAs and ispLEVER® design
tools, and techniques for using Synplicity's Synplify Pro software to boost
design performance. The seminar series will be held in cities throughout the
United States through the rest of this year, and in multiple cities in
Europe and Asia in early 2006. For more information about the seminar
series, including seminar locations and dates, visit
http://www.synplicity.com or
http://www.latticesemi.com/corporate/events/performanceadvantagessemi/index.cfm,
or contact local Lattice Semiconductor or Synplicity representatives.
Pricing and Availability
Contact your local Synplicity office for pricing and availability
information. Lattice customers who wish to upgrade their current Synplify
tool to the new Synplify Pro product should contact their local Synplicity
sales representative to see if they are eligible for a special offer.
About Synplicity
Synplicity® Inc. (Nasdaq: SYNP) is a leading supplier of innovative software
solutions that enable the rapid and effective design of complex, high-performance semiconductors. Synplicity's tools provide outstanding
performance, cost and time-to-market benefits by simplifying, improving and
automating key design planning, logic synthesis, physical synthesis and
verification functions for FPGA, DSP, ASIC prototyping, structured/platform
ASIC and cell-based ASIC designers. Synplicity is the first company to
deliver customized physical synthesis, analysis and floorplanning solutions
for today's leading structured/platform ASICs. In addition, the company is
the number one supplier of FPGA synthesis solutions and has been rated #1 in
customer satisfaction in 2004 and 2005 in EE Times' Annual FPGA Customer
Survey. Synplicity's products support industry-standard design languages
(VHDL and Verilog) and run on popular platforms. The company employs over
300 people in over 20 facilities worldwide and is headquartered in
Sunnyvale, California. For more information visit http://www.synplicity.com.
About Lattice Semiconductor
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation provides the industry's broadest range of
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) and Programmable Logic Devices (PLD),
including Field Programmable System Chips (FPSC), Complex Programmable Logic
Devices (CPLD), Programmable Mixed-Signal Products (ispPAC®) and
Programmable Digital Interconnect Devices (ispGDX®). Lattice also offers
industry leading SERDES products.
Lattice is "Bringing the Best Together" with comprehensive solutions for
system design, including an unequaled portfolio of non-volatile programmable
devices that deliver instant-on operation, security and "single chip
solution" space savings.
Lattice products are sold worldwide through an extensive network of
independent sales representatives and distributors, primarily to OEM
customers in communications, computing, industrial, consumer, automotive,
medical and military end markets. Company headquarters are located at 5555
NE Moore Court, Hillsboro, Oregon 97124-6421, USA; telephone 503-268-8000,
fax 503-268-8037. For more information about Lattice Semiconductor
Corporation, visit http://www.latticesemi.com.
Forward Looking Statements:
Synplicity
Statements in this news release looking forward in time are made pursuant to
the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements involve
risks and uncertainties including performance and benefits of the newest
version of the Synplify Pro tool, market acceptance and demand for our new
products, our dependencies on our third party software suppliers, the impact
of competitive products and pricing, technological and product development
risks and other risk factors detailed in the Company's Securities and
Exchange Commission filings. Actual results may differ materially from
forward-looking statements.
Lattice
Statements in this news release looking forward in time are made pursuant to
the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements involve
risks and uncertainties including market acceptance and demand for our new
products, estimates of market size and growth rate, our dependencies on our
software suppliers, the impact of competitive products and pricing,
technological and product development risks and other risk factors detailed
in the Company’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Actual results
may differ materially from forward-looking statements.
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Synplicity and Synplify Pro are registered trademarks of Synplicity, Inc.
Other product names used in this publication are for identification purposes
only and may be trademarks of their respective holders.
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, Lattice (& design), L (& design), ispGDX,
ispLEVER, ispPAC, and specific product designations are either registered
trademarks or trademarks of Lattice Semiconductor Corporation or its
subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries.
GENERAL NOTICE: Other product names used in this publication are for
identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective
holders.
Synplicity Reader Contact:
Jeff Garrison
Synplicity
(408)215-6000
jeff@synplicity.com
Lattice Editorial/Reader Contact:
Brian Kiernan, Corporate Communications Manager
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation
(503)268-8739 voice
(503)268-8193 fax
brian.kiernan@latticesemi.com
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