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For
Immediate Release
Lattice
And Synplicity Ink Development
And Marketing Agreement
- Synplify Pro synthesis performance
enhancements for new Lattice FPGA
devices scheduled for 2005 release -
HILLSBORO,
OR and SUNNYVALE, CA - APRIL 18, 2005 - Lattice Semiconductor
Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) and Synplicity Incorporated (NASDAQ:
SYNP) today announced a comprehensive development and marketing
agreement to enhance and promote Lattice FPGA device performance
in Synplicity's Synplify Pro® FPGA synthesis tool during
the second half of 2005. The agreement calls for significant
enhancements, including register retiming, pipelining, and memory
inferencing, to strengthen current support for Lattice FPGAs.
The Synplify Pro software currently supports all Lattice digital
programmable logic devices, including the new, non-volatile LatticeXP™ FPGAs.
“Continuous performance improvement is emphasized by Lattice and
its partners,” said Chris Fanning, Lattice vice president of software. “We
are confident that Synplicity will deliver considerably improved
performance and support for Lattice FPGAs, and that our customers
will benefit greatly from Lattice and Synplicity's expanded relationship.”
Joe Gianelli,
Synplicity vice president of business development, said, “This
agreement reflects our unqualified commitment to deliver unprecedented
device performance for Lattice FPGA products in our Synplify
Pro software. Performance is a hallmark of Synplicity's synthesis
tools, and we are eager to continually expand and improve our
support for Lattice FPGAs.”
Availability and pricing
Synplify Pro software, Lattice-only, Node-locked, supporting all
Lattice digital programmable devices, is currently available from
Synplicity starting at $20,000.
About the latest generation of Lattice FPGAs
The
newest generation of Lattice FPGAs, LatticeXP devices employ
a combination of SRAM and Flash technology to provide a non-volatile,
in-system reconfigurable FPGA family that offers a single chip,
secure solution for logic integration. The low cost, SRAM-based
LatticeEC™ family provides the best DDR memory interface
performance in its class, as well as economical SPI Flash memory
configuration. The LatticeECP-DSP™ family adds a best-in-class
multiplier-accumulator engine to the optimized architecture of
the LatticeEC to support the expanding use of DSP functionality.
Additional complementary device families are planned for announcement
later this year.
About Synplicity
Synplicity® Inc. (NASDAQ: SYNP) is a leading
supplier of innovative synthesis, verification and physical implementation
software solutions that enable the rapid and effective design and
verification of semiconductors. Synplicity's high-quality, high-performance
tools significantly reduce costs and time-to-market for FPGA, structured/platform
ASIC and cell-based/COT ASIC designers. The company's underlying
Behavior Extracting Synthesis Technology® (BEST™), which is
embedded in its logical, physical and verification tools, and has
led to Synplicity's top position in FPGA synthesis, now provides
the same fast runtimes and quality of results to ASIC and COT customers.
The company's fast, easy-to-use products support industry standard
design languages (VHDL and Verilog) and run on popular platforms.
Synplicity employs over 280 people in its 20 facilities worldwide.
Synplicity 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
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, 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.
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Lattice
Semiconductor Corporation, Lattice (& design),
L (& design), LatticeEC, LatticeECP, LatticeXP, ispGDX, 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.
Synplicity, Synplify Pro, and Behavior Extracting Synthesis
Technology are registered trademarks of Synplicity Inc. BEST
is a trademark of Synplicity Inc.
GENERAL NOTICE: Other product names used in this publication
are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of
their respective holders.
Synplicity Contact:
Joe Gianelli
Synplicity, Inc.
408-215-6000
joeg@synplicity.com
Lattice
Contact:
Brian Kiernan
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation
503-268-8739
brian.kiernan@latticesemi.com
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