Hardi Electronics AB

Founded in 1987, in the same year that saw the standardization of the original version of VHDL by the IEEE, HARDI Electronics is a pioneer in the field of structured design. Our knowledge and experience ranges from ASIC design with silicon compilers, to the synthesis of programmable devices and the creation of VHDL designs - the first of which was produced a few months after the company's founding. We offer powerful EDA tools, advanced training and qualified support to the electronic industries in the Nordic area. Our customers are hardware designers of digital electronics, with main focus on programmable logic devices and ASICs. The design tools we provide are all high performance and easy-to-use at very competitive prices. Hardi's products are based on Xilinx devices and target ASIC Prototyping.

HAPS is a modular, high performance and high capacity FPGA-based system for ASIC prototyping. HAPS comprises multi-FPGA motherboards and standard or custom-made daughter boards which can be combined in a wide variety of ways in order to quickly assemble ASIC prototyping systems. Rapid assembly is facilitated by the availability of many standard daughter boards including video processing, memory and interfaces to Ethernet, USB, PCI Express and ARM® core modules. Customers prefer the time-to-market advantage of using an off-the-shelf prototyping solution which can save months in the critical verification phase.

Synplicity, Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP), a leading supplier of software for the design and verification of semiconductors, announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of HARDI Electronics AB, a leading developer of off-the-shelf ASIC prototyping boards, for $24.2 million in cash. For more detail look at http://www.synplicity.com/corporate/pressrele....

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