SUNNYVALE, Calif., 6 June 2007. Synplicity Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif., has agreed to acquire HARDI Electronics AB in Lund, Sweden, to bolster Synplicity's profile in the application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) verification market.
HARDI Electronics which develops of off-the-shelf ASIC prototyping boards. Synplicity bought the outstanding shares of HARDI for $24.2 million in cash.
HARDI's ASIC Prototyping System (HAPS) is used by companies such as Broadcom, Conexant, LG, LSI Logic, Marvell, Matsushita, Nokia, NXP, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, and TI.
We will be able to immediately leverage our existing ASIC verification products by selling them together with the HARDI ASIC prototyping boards," says Gary Meyers, chief executive officer of Synplicity, which offers the ASIC verification products called Certify, Synplify Premier, Identify, and Identify Pro.
HARDI's ASIC prototyping systems work seamlessly with Synplicity's Certify and Synplify Premier synthesis products and its Identify and Identify Pro RTL debugging solutions.
ASIC verification teams can use the combined Certify, Synplify Premier and HAPS system to quickly create multi-million gate field-programmable gate array (FPGA) systems to verify ASIC functionality in real time while enabling comprehensive software verification with interfaces to real-world stimuli.
Synplicity's Identify and Identify Pro RTL debug products permit designers to conveniently debug these systems at the RTL level instead of with timing-consuming gate level interfaces.
For more information contact Synplicity online at www.synplicity.com.
