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CLARA, Calif. - April 8, 2008 - Axell Corporation, an emerging
Japanese multimedia chip supplier, has selected Sequence Design's
PowerTheater for precision power calculations at RTL, routinely
reducing power consumption by as much as 20 percent according
to Kazunori Matsuura, Engineering Group Director, Axell Corporation.
Axell has recently taped out a complex graphic chip comprising
multi million gate devices with PowerTheater.
"With a very precise measurement of power at RTL we could
determine power budgets and make packaging decisions early
in the design cycle which reduces costs significantly,"
Matsuura said. "In addition to its outstanding accuracy
at RT level, PowerTheater was also quite easy to use. Designers
could visualize and resolve power-related problems quickly."
"We have been working closely with leading semiconductor
vendors in Japan for several years to provide them with Design
for Power (DFP) solutions," said Tom Miller, Sequence
Design Vice President and Head of R&D, Front-End Products.
"We have now expanded our strategy to work with emerging,
innovative companies like Axell who are concerned about power.
We were impressed by Axell's engineering team which was able
to quickly bring up PowerTheater and accelerate their time
to market while achieving significant power savings in their
complex designs."
About PowerTheater/PowerTheater-Explorer
PowerTheater is the industry's first RTL power analysis
and management solution with the singular ability to accurately
estimate and reduce power at RTL and support power management
techniques such as voltage islands, mixed voltage threshold,
power gating, and clock gating. PowerTheater recently added
support for the Si2 CPF standard along with the following
new features:
- Control all aspects of running PowerTheater through a
single Tcl-based command file.
- Identify high power windows utilizing comprehensive simulations
from hardware accelerators.
- Compute full-chip, gate-level power efficiently using
RTL simulations.
- Prevent voltage-drop related test and functional failures
by automatically identifying critical vectors from multiple
simulations.
PowerTheater-Explorer is an innovative option that adds state-of-the
art power visualization and debug capabilities for fast, interactive
power reduction. A new SmartSource Viewer allows designers to
determine hot spots in the design, to visualize, debug and interactively
determine ways to reduce a design's power. The hierarchical
RTL power tree display shows hot spots that can be cross-probed
to schematics, showing connectivity and indicating how activity
is moving through the design and how instances impact one another.
These results can be displayed and analyzed at RTL, gate, or
mixed levels of abstraction. SmartSource also provides a dedicated
view of the clock tree for fast isolation and optimization.
For more information, visit: www.sequencedesign.com/solutions/powertheater.php.
About Axell Corporation
As an R&D fabless semiconductor manufacturer, Axell focuses
its management resources on research and development operations
for LSI and compression/ decompression technologies related
to graphics and sound. The purpose of our R&D operations
is to develop advanced and highly practical technologies such
as LSIs that enable high-resolution graphics and clear sound,
and powerful compression/ decompression technologies for various
types of data including graphics and sound. For more information:
www.axell.co.jp/en/.
About Sequence Design
Sequence Design accelerates the ability of SoC designers to
bring high-performance, power-aware ICs quickly to market. Sequence
Design-For-Power solutions give customers the competitive advantage
necessary to excel in aggressive technology markets. For more
information: www.sequencedesign.com.
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Axell Reduces Power, Increases Productivity With Sequence's
PowerTheater