Synfora, Inc., the premier provider of high level synthesis tools for integrated circuit and system designers of complex processing applications, has released version 9.04 of its PICO Extreme and PICO Extreme FPGA C synthesis tools with enhanced support for C++ language constructs and new support for additional FPGA devices.

The PICO Extreme product line now offers additional C++ support, including support for classes, templates, and operator over-loading; host interface and memory mapping enhancements, including flexible address mapping; and enhanced language support, with expanded support for looping syntax and expanded pointer support.

The compny claims that latest version of PICO Extreme further improves quality of results (QoR):

• Area improvements of up to 8%
• Enhanced mapping to Xilinx DSP48 units and enhanced timing estimates for complex operations, yielding improvements in achievable performance for FPGA designs of up to 25%.

The recently announced BDTI High Level Synthesis Tool Certification Program ™ results show that the PICO High Level Synthesis Platform produces quality of results comparable to hand-coded RTL. (http://www.synfora.com/BDTI).

Version 9.04 of PICO Extreme FPGA and PICO Extreme are available now.