Jerry Frenkil is vice president, power products at Sequence. Inc. He received a B.S.E.E. and from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1978. Tom Miller is vice president, engineering, at Sequence. Telesis Corp. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in 1976 and 1978 respectively. Among a range of enhancements, the company said, Designsync v3.0 increases operational speed and adds significant new branch and merge functionality to support parallel development.
Parallel development is used by software engineers to enhance productivity.
Synchronicity said it now offers similar productivity improvements to hardware engineers, but more importantly, offers a unified solution for the collaboration and management of system-level design. Philips Semiconductors helped to specify the new parallel development functionality and is among the first to adopt this new feature. In parallel development, a design is partitioned into pieces that can be worked on concurrently to increase productivity. Branching and merging are the primary requirements enabling this. Branching is where a new line of development is separated off of a base line.