AccelChip partners with Leopard Logic, ChipX

EDA startup AccelChip Inc., a provider of tools for synthesizable Verilog and VHDL code, has signed separate partnership deals with structured ASIC vendor ChipX and configurable logic vendor Leopard Logic.

AccelChip has signed both companies to its "AccelChip Silicon vendor Alliance Program," and has agreed to enhance its DSP synthesis tool to provide results for ChipX's structured ASIC products Leopard Logic configurable logic devices.

The partnership with ChipX will allow mutual customers using AccelChip's tools and parametric libraries to retarget designs that have been prototyped in FPGAs to a ChipX structured ASIC, the partners said.

Under terms of the agreement with Leopard Logic, AccelChip will extend a patented device-specific optimization engine inside its algorithmic synthesis tool to provide optimized results for Leopard Logic's device family. Other AccelChip partners include Altera, Elixent and Xilinx.

- Mike Santarini

EE Times