Case Study: Faraday Technology Corporation achieves over 50% PCIe controller performance improvement with Synopsys Synplify Premier

Faraday Technology Corporation Achieves Over 50% Performance Improvement on PCIe Controller Designs with Synplify

Faraday Technology Corporation, a leading fabless ASIC vendor and IP provider, needed to raise the performance of two new PCIe controller designs from an initial 80 MHz to the target 125 MHz. The shortfall in the first FPGA implementation created a critical timing and productization challenge for the PCIe controller IP family.

By adopting Synopsys Synplify Premier and the Identify debugging tool—along with Synopsys’ local support and an Xilinx ISE flow—Faraday identified false paths, met timing in a single pass, and achieved over a 50% performance improvement to reach 125 MHz. The solution also reduced logic and device size (lowering cost), accelerated debugging and time-to-market, passed PCI SIG compliance testing, and prepared the designs for ASIC implementation.

Faraday Technology Corporation

Pearson Chen

Design Engineer