This leads to the design closure problem. In contrast, a structured ASIC with a predefined power grid allows the physical synthesis flow to actively use the power grid directly in physical synthesis.

“For customers who use FPGA prototyping ... Synplify DSP ASIC Edition is different from the company's past ASIC logic synthesis efforts, Eddington said, because it's an ESL tool that acts as a front ...

Based on Magma's Blast Create and Blast Fusion tools, the flow supports ChipX's CX5000 family of structured-ASIC devices. The companies' mutual customers as well as ChipX itself will use it to ...