AMD Investors - XILINX to Acquire MINC
Didn't AMD/Vantis outsource their CPLD software development to MINC a few years ago?
With MINC being acquired by Xilinx, a Vantis competitor, AMD/Vantis may find it even tougher to compete in the CPLD business.
And it's not exactly like Vantis was a world beater to begin with !
Paul
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Xilinx to acquire MINC assets
Electronic Buyers' News
(12/14/98, 08:08:22 PM EDT)
Moving to gain competitive advantage in the battle for
PLD-market dominance, Xilinx Inc. has made a bid to acquire
some of the assets of MINC Inc., Redmond, Wa.
MINC, a privately held supplier of PLD design tools, today
announced its intention to liquidate the company and sell its
technology.
Xilinx, San Jose, said it is negotiating with MINC to purchase
Design Navigator, a web-enabled tool for team-based
design; the PLSynthesizer synthesis tool; and ABEL, a widely
used CPLD high-level description language.
If successful, the technology acquisitions will boost Xilinx's
efforts on two fronts: enabling complex FPGA design over the
Internet, and accelerating the company's CPLD market
penetration.
MINC's Design Navigator technology would enhance Xilinx's
Silicon Xpresso Internet Team Design (ITD) software
releases in 1999, allowing multiple design teams to work in
parallel on the same design in real-time, Xilinx said.
The PLD supplier also intends push more aggressively into
the CPLD arena, which it entered two years ago, with the
purchase of PLSynthesizer and ABEL technology. Xilinx
plans to integrate the tools into its Foundation Series
synthesis software in the first half of 1999, to offer designers a
way to migrate to VHDL and Verilog with a single
environment.
Xilinx said it will continue to support the ABEL tool, which has
an installed base of 50,000 seats worldwide and supports all
the major PLD architectures. |
