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CLARA, Calif. - May 7, 2008, - (DMP), the world-class leader
of 3-D graphics solutions, headquartered in Tokyo, has achieved
a 50 percent reduction in power for their latest offering
using Sequence Design's PowerTheater.
DMP's PICA200 is an advanced, fully customizable multiprocessor
design optimized for consumer applications including mobile
devices, and has unmatched 3-D graphics capabilities while
reducing overall system memory requirements.
"Power usage is an important consideration for these
devices," said Wataru Yokozeki, Business Development
Director of DMP. "PowerTheater's ability to analyze power
at a high level has proven to be immensely valuable by allowing
us to optimize our architecture to maximize power reduction.
We also found its vector and peak power analysis particularly
useful during the design of this core, we could eliminate
power-bugs using these capabilities."
According to Yokozeki, they were able to seamlessly integrate
PowerTheater into their existing design flow, and he cited
the tool's ease of use and advanced visualization capabilities
as a major benefit. "Partnering with Sequence for power
analysis and optimization has contributed greatly to the success
of PICA," he said.
"World-class design teams can take advantage of PowerTheater's
advanced RTL power analysis features today, just as DMP did,"
said Hiroshi Ishikawa , General Manager of Sequence Design,
KK. "Our customers worldwide are using this technology
to routinely achieve similar results."
About PowerTheater/PowerTheater-Explorer
PowerTheater is the industry's first RTL power analysis
and power prototyping solution with the singular ability to
accurately analyze 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
capability that adds state-of-the art power visualization
and debug features for fast, interactive RTL power analysis.
A new SmartSource Viewer allows designers to determine hot
spots in the design, to visualize, debug and interactively
analyze a design's power consumption. 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 analysis and tracing
of clock nets in the design. For more information, visit:
www.sequencedesign.com/solutions/powertheater.php.
About DMP
DMP develops products based on creative ideas in the realm
of graphics technology, an area that we believe has the potential
for unlimited innovation. Our mission is to make products
that enrich the user experience, and we intend to lead the
way to a brand new world of contents and applications. DMP
is currently developing next-generation 3-D graphics processors
(from DMP's IP core) for the embedded market with a focus
on the digital consumer, including products such as mobile
phones, handheld games, navigation systems, and arcade games.
For more information: http://www.dmprof.com/d/index_en.html.
About Sequence Design
Sequence Design's Design For Power (DFP) solutions accelerate
the ability of SoC designers to bring high-performance, power-aware
ICs quickly to market. Sequence's power and signal-integrity
software give customers the competitive advantage necessary
to excel in aggressive technology markets. For more information:
www.sequencedesign.com.
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DMP Slashes Power 50% In New 3-D Graphics Processor IP Core
"PICA200 " With Sequence PowerTheater