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Synfora Wins Electronique’s
Golden Electron Award for EDA Software
PICO Extreme recognized for providing
productivity gains in large production designs
Mountain View, Calif.–June 19, 2009 – Synfora,
Inc., the premier provider of algorithmic synthesis tools for integrated
circuit and system designers of large, complex processing applications,
today announced that its PICO Extreme™ product has won the
prestigious Electron D’Or award in the CAO Electronic category.
The award, sponsored by France’s Electronique magazine, recognizes
products in 14 categories, with the winner in each category chosen
by an independent jury of expert users from products released in
the previous 12 months. Runners-up in the category included Cadence
C2S and EDA tools from CoFluent, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys and Zuken.
PICO Extreme enables the implementation of dramatically larger
and more complex sub-systems using a multi-level hierarchical methodology
based on Synfora’s innovative TCAB (Tightly Coupled Accelerator Block)
technology. PICO Extreme allows familiar design styles, reduces runtime
and achieves unprecedented quality of results including reduced power.
“We are honored to win the prestigious Electron D’or award and to
have PICO Extreme recognized for its ability to allow designers to quickly implement
hardware from C algorithms,” said Simon Napper, president and CEO of Synfora. “Synfora’s
technology leadership in algorithmic synthesis allows us to deliver the highest
productivity and the best quality of results from the most abstract design.”
PICO Platform
The PICO Algorithmic Synthesis Platform provides productivity
gains by creating application accelerators from an untimed C algorithm
at the highest level of abstraction. PICO yields QoR (quality of
results) that is competitive with manual design by using a unique
parallelizing compiler and multi-level hierarchical abstraction
and IP reuse. It offers the highest possible level of abstraction
for large designs, and has been proven to provide huge productivity
gains on the largest production designs, not just on small blocks.
About Synfora
Synfora, Inc. is the premier provider of algorithmic synthesis
tools used to design complex systems-on-chips (SoCs) and FPGAs.
Synfora's PICO algorithmic synthesis platform offers designers
of large, complex subsystems productivity gains at the highest-level
design abstraction and delivers high QoR.
Synfora serves customers worldwide in the audio, video, imaging,
wireless, and security segments of the integrated circuit (IC)
design market. The company's investors are ATA Ventures, Foundation
Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, Wafra, and Xilinx. For the latest
information on Synfora, please visitvisit www.synfora.com.
Note to editors :
A photo of the Golden D’Or award is available upon request
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