SAN MATEO, Calif. — Once thought of as paying only lip service to FPGA tools, Synopsys Inc. is now acting like a serious player in high-end FPGA design. The company recently announced it has developed ...

Synopsys Inc. is being ever mindful of the vast mainstream of IC designers who rely on Design Compiler, its 10-years-in-the-running RTL synthesis tool and the foundation for the Synopsys run-up to No.

Time-saving verification tools have been added to an advanced tool flow for high-end FPGA design. The flow, a collaboration between Xilinx Inc. of San Jose and Synopsys Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., ...