SANTA CLARA, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--SiliconBlue® Technologies, the leader in ultra-low power,
single-chip, high-density SRAM mobileFPGA™ devices, today
announced the production availability of its new iCEcube2™
EDA development tool. The new tool is a result of SiliconBlue’s
development partnership with Synopsys, Inc. Nasdaq:SNPS, bringing the
stable, robust FPGA synthesis of Synplify Pro® software to
mobile designers, many of whom have never experienced the benefits of
FPGAs before and seek an easy-to-use solution.
“Each customer I visit has multiple new feature ideas for handsets”
Oftentimes, designers face a barrier when trying to implement new
innovative features, such as simultaneous dual video displays or
condition-based behavior using I2C sensors, with standard
mobile application processors and chipsets. SiliconBlue’s new iCEcube2
development tool makes it easy for designers to use iCE65™
mobileFPGA devices to overcome this barrier by designing custom
functions that compliment these standard devices, ultimately enabling
new features to be implemented easily and on-time.
In addition, the iCEcube2 development tool brings significant
improvement in performance and utilization results over previous
SiliconBlue EDA tools. Testing shows that ~70% of designs will see
performance improvement. Furthermore, the performance improvement on
average is 30%. These results mean that users can achieve their device
utilization and performance targets quickly and easily, helping them to
meet their project schedules.
“Each customer I visit has multiple new feature ideas for handsets,”
said Kapil Shankar, CEO of SiliconBlue Technologies. “With these new
iCEcube2 development tools, they can now easily use our iCE65 mobileFPGA
devices to implement their ideas and create innovative new products.”
Availability
The iCEcube2 development tool is available for download now from
SiliconBlue’s website www.siliconbluetech.com.
Support for Windows or Linux operating systems is available. Please
refer to www.siliconbluetech.com
for more information. 90-day evaluation licenses are available upon
request. Full 1-year licenses are available for $1980.
About SiliconBlue
SiliconBlue Technologies is the first programmable logic start-up
company in 20 years to ship products in volume production. The company
offers a new class of ultra-low power, single-chip, SRAM FPGAs designed
specifically for handheld consumer applications. Manufactured on TSMC’s
65nm LP low power CMOS process, the iCE65 mobileFPGA family meets the
capacity, power, area, and price requirements for battery-operated
products such as Smartphones, eBooks/ePaper, netbooks, mobile internet
devices, portable media players, handheld POS terminals, medical
instruments, digital still cameras and flash camcorders. Headquartered
in Santa Clara, California, the company has a highly skilled team of PLD
experts who have been instrumental in developing and patenting many of
the leading programmable logic technologies on the market today. For
more information, please visit our website at to www.siliconbluetech.com.
SiliconBlue is a registered trademark and mobileFPGA, iCE65, iCEman
and iCEcube2 are trademarks of SiliconBlue Technologies Corporation. All
other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
