Xilinx Alliance Series - Product Detail

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The Synopsys Alliance Series solutions include products and services from both Synopsys and Xilinx. Synopsys offers High Level Design solutions for both ASICs and FPGAs including FPGA/Design Compiler on UNIX and FPGA Express on Windows/NT. Interfaces and libraries are available from Xilinx for UNIX solutions while the High Level Design solutions on all platforms are available from Synopsys. The FPGA/CPLD design solutions from Synopsys work in conjunction with the Alliance Base or Standard products from Xilinx. The Xilinx Alliance Series also contains the implementation tools for all solutions.

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Synopsys FPGA/CPLD Product Summary
The Following Entries are links to Synopsys' WEB pages

FPGA Compiler
FPGA Compiler II
FPGA Express
Design Compiler
VSS
SmartModels (LMG)

Xilinx Alliance Series Product Summary
The Following Entries are links to Xilinx' WEB pages

Alliance Series Configuration

New Alliance Series 1.5 Configuration

Synopsys Product Summary

Product	Comments
HDL Entry
FPGA Compiler II	Synopsys workstation solution. Combines FPGA Compiler for Design Compiler compatibility and FPGA Express technology for more ease-of-use and higher quality-of-results for FPGAs/CPLDs on UNIX.
FPGA Express	Synopsys PC solution with ease-of-use and high quality-of-results. The Xilinx libraries and interfaces are included with Synopsys FPGA Express.
Design Compiler	Contains no architecture specific optimization for Xilinx FPGAs/CPLDs.
HDL Simulation
VSS	VHDL Simulation. VITAL compliant.
HDL Analysis
RTL Analyzer formerly HDL Advisor	Name change in 1997.08 to RTL Analyzer.
Others
SmartModels	From Synopsys LMG (Logic Modeling Group).

Xilinx Alliance Series Product Summary

Release	Xilinx	Comments
Alliance Series 1.5 8/98	Alliance Base: DS-ALI-BAS-PC/WS	Device Support: FPGAs: -Up to XC4010E/X -Spartan/XL -XC3x00A/L -Up to XC5210 CPLDs: -XC9500
Alliance Series 1.5 8/98	Alliance Standard: DS-ALI-STD-PC/WS	Device Support: FPGAs: -XC4000E/X (including XV) -Spartan/XL -XC3x00A/L -XC5200 -Virtex CPLDs: -XC9500
Alliance Series 1.4 1/98	Alliance Base: DS-ALI-BAS-PC/WS	Device Support: 3K, 9K, up to XC4008, up to XC5206
Alliance Series 1.4 1/98	Alliance Standard: DS-ALI-STD-PC/WS	Device Support: 3K, 4KE/S/EX/XL/XV, 5K, 9K

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Xilinx Alliance Series - Product Detail

Products/Services

Synopsys Product Summary

HDL Entry

HDL Simulation

Xilinx Alliance Series Product Summary