The Synplify DSP tool includes integration to Xilinx System Generator for DSP to allow blocks created using Synplify DSP software to be easily integrated with Xilinx IP, connected to Xilinx embedded processors and verified on Xilinx hardware boards using hardware co-simulation.

Synplify DSP software provides users of the MathWorks Simulink environment, an environment for multi-domain simulation and model-based design, with a highly optimized approach for the implementation of DSP algorithms into silicon. With M-Control fully integrated into the Synplify DSP library and the MathWorks Simulink environment, data type and sample rate inheritance and propagation is fully supported.

M-Control features inline debugging for supporting breakpoints and stepping into the M code. These features greatly simplify the specification and verification of control functionality that is often integrated into DSP algorithms. Moreover, with a comprehensive IP library of industry-standard functional blocks, such as FFTs, Viterbi decoders, DDS and CORDIC math functions, designers rapidly can create designs in application-specific domains.

"We are pleased to welcome Synplicity as one of our Xilinx ESL Initiative members," said Steve Lass, senior director software marketing at Xilinx. "Based on the growing popularity of the Simulink-based approach for DSP algorithm design and Synplify DSP's unique architectural exploration and advanced optimization, we are happy to include the first vendor independent SimuLink-based ESL synthesis flow—Synplify DSP."