Companies join hands on new HDL project

Leaders of two Silicon Valley companies are forming a strategic partnership to provide a new high-density hardware description language design solution. Synplicity Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Xilinx Inc. of San Jose, Calif., are forging a close technical and marketing relationship to quicken their customers` time to market and improve product quality by designing Xilinx devices with Synplicity design tools. Synplicity supplies logic synthesis software for programmable logic design, and Xilinx specializes in programmable logic. For more information, contact Synplicity by phone at 408-617-6000, or on the World Wide Web at http://www.synplicity.com/. - J.K.