Synopsys to Acquire Accelerant Networks for High-speed Serial

Synopsys agreed to acquire Accelerant Networks, a privately held company providing a highly efficient technology for high-speed serial interfaces, for an undisclosed sum. Accelerant has developed 6.25 Gbps CMOS transceivers that enable up to a ten-fold increase in data rates on the installed copper backplanes and cable systems used in existing server, storage, enterprise and network transport applications. Synopsys said it intends to apply Accelerant's SERDES technology to offer multiple standards-based PHY cores such as PCI Express, Serial ATA (SATA), and emerging 6.25 to 10 Gbps backplane applications. http://www.synopsys.com/http://www.Accelerant.net