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Tzero Drives Low-Power with Sequence |
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CLARA, Calif. - June 4, 2008 - Sequence Design, the EDA leader
in Design for Power (DFP) solutions, announced that Tzero
Technologies, the leader in Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology
and wireless video products, has adopted PowerTheater as a
key component in its low-power design flow for high-performance,
ultra wideband silicon.
"We have identified significant power savings using PowerTheater,"
said Ravi Aripirala, Ph.D, Tzero's Director of ASICs. "The
completeness and accuracy of its analysis combined with easy
to use visualization tools make PowerTheater a valuable part
of our flow."
"PowerTheater continues to offer market leaders in emerging
technologies the ability to achieve consistent and significant
power savings at RTL," said Sequence President and CEO
Vic Kulkarni. "These savings provide our customers with
a distinct and measurable competitive advantage."
PowerTheater-Explorer was a hit with the Tzero engineers as
it quickly let them visualize hotspots and evaluate techniques
for remedying them. Additional techniques employed by the
team included power vector analysis, average and peak power
calculation, power gating, and identifying power peaks in
their designs.
Sequence will showcase its entire portfolio of DFP solutions,
including the recently announced PowerArtist with automated
RTL power reduction, at DAC in Anaheim June 8-13, Booth 2100.
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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 Tzero Technologies
Tzero Technologies is the leading fabless semiconductor provider
of CMOS, high-performance ultra wideband chipsets. The company's
wireless high-definition video distribution solutions are designed
into display and A/V component products from top tier OEMs around
the world. Founded in 2003, Tzero is headquartered in Sunnyvale,
California. For more information, visit Tzero online at www.tzerotech.com
About Sequence
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. Sequence is an active
participant in industry organizations advancing low-power design
technologies such as the Power Forward Initiative and holds
a seat on the board of Si2. For more information: sequencedesign.com.
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