Tools Accelerate Design Of 10-M Gate FPGAs

Designed with FPGA development in mind, the Foundation Integrated Synthesis Environment (ISE) software includes the company's implementation tools that are claimed to deliver unequalled productivity for designs up to ten-million gates with compilation times averaging two to five min. for 100,000 system gates and 30 to 45 min. for one-million gate FPGAs. A flow manager, Project Navigator, guides users through an easy to use push-button interface. The flow manager also integrates with Synplicity's Synplify synthesis tool suite via push buttons. In addition, the software provides architecture-specific support for many of the company's other products, which include Spartan, Spartan-XL, Spartan-II, Virtex-E, Virtex-EM FPGAs, and XC9500 CPLDs. The software operates under Windows 98/2000/NT. Pricing starts at $1,690.