While the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) was once dominated by just two players, there are now a number of companies trying to fill the various gaps in the $6 billion–plus FPGA market. One such ...

Gary Meyers, president and CEO of FPGA tool vendor Synplicity, sat down with Electronic News to talk about what’s changing in the EDA industry. What follows are excerpts of that conversation.

MUNICH — Although in 2001 FPGA vendor Xilinx was briefly caught in the down-draught of the communications bust it has generally managed to turn in better financial numbers than most of its ASIC rivals ...