BANGALORE, INDIA: Synplicity, Inc. announced that Synplicity, with its Synplify DSP software, has joined the Xilinx ESL Initiative. The addition of the Synplify DSP software to the Xilinx ESL design ecosystem underscores the commitment of Xilinx toward driving technological innovations and solutions that promote high-level, electronic system level (ESL) design. 

ESL design is one of the fastest growing segments of the EDA market with an expected 50 percent compounded annual growth rate during the next five years according to market researcher Gary Smith of Gary Smith EDA.

"We are very happy to join the Xilinx ESL Initiative," said Joe Gianelli, vice president of business development, Synplicity. "During the past 18 months, this initiative has gone a long way in providing FPGA users with access to a comprehensive ESL design flow. We're glad to be part of the industry's transition to ESL design and pleased to be part of Xilinx's best-in-class tool ecosystem for advanced FPGA designers."

The Synplify DSP environment facilitates high-level modeling and hardware abstraction, constraint-driven algorithm synthesis into RTL and powerful system-wide optimizations for performance, area, and multi-channelization tradeoff exploration. 

It helps designers capture multi-rate DSP algorithms quickly and easily, perform architectural exploration across multiple devices and create algorithmic IP that is highly portable and re-usable.  As a result, users can easily map their DSP algorithms into any Xilinx device.