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Sequence, Faraday, NemoChips Team To Slash Over 50% Of Total
Power From Advanced Mobile Processor Design |
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CLARA, Calif. - Sept. 10, 2008 - Pairing Sequence Design's
PowerTheater, and the low-power design expertise of NemoChips
and Faraday Technology Corporation, led to a 52 percent reduction
in total power for an advanced mobile processor design.
NemoChips recently taped out its next-generation processor,
designed jointly with Faraday's SoCompiler Design Services,
that ushers in a new era in mobile computing with ultra-high
performance for streaming HD video, and power usage as much
as 10X less than its closest competitor. NemoChips is an emerging
leader in low-power multimedia platform ICs.
NemoChips designers scored their biggest power savings early
in the design cycle thanks to PowerTheater's prowess in RTL
power analysis and power prototyping where Sequence estimates
as much as 80 percent of total power savings can be realized.
"By leveraging the best design talent, methodologies,
and tools we have achieved this significant low-power design
milestone," said NemoChips President Dr. Lifeng Zhao.
"Our customers are building portable technologies with
unprecedented features and battery life, and look to us to
provide them with the right silicon to meet market requirements."
"The Faraday PowerSmart™ design flow speeds the
development of low-power technologies using industry-standard
flows along with best-in-class tools such as PowerTheater,"
according to Joseph Hong, General Manager for the U.S., Faraday
Technology. "This combination gives our design center
customers consistently superior results and fast time to market."
"High performance and low power are expected by today's
consumer," said Sequence President and CEO Vic Kulkarni.
"It is amazing to see how far we can continue to push
the envelope to meet these demands, and what can be accomplished
when the skills and talents of multiple companies like Sequence,
Faraday, and NemoChips come together."
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:
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- 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 debugs 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 NemoChips Inc.
NemoChips Inc. is a fabless semiconductor start-up established
at the beginning of 2007. The company is headquartered in Silicon
Valley with development centers in Fremont USA and Shanghai
China. The company focuses on developing next generation mobile
application processor SoC that could provide DVD quality audio
and video for future handheld device. The SoC is fully programmable
that could support most major video standards up to 720p 30fps
video decoding with very low power consumption. An open software
platform is also built around this chip to provide a complete
solution for portable multi-media devices including smart phones,
PDA, DPF and PMP etc. For more information, please visit : www.nemochips.com
About Faraday Technology Corporation
Faraday Technology Corporation is a leading silicon IP and fabless
ASIC vendor. The company's broad silicon IP portfolio includes
Cell Library, Memory Compiler, ARM-compliant CPUs, DDRII, MPEG4,
H.264, USB 2.0, 10/100 Ethernet, Serial ATA, and PCI Express.
With 2007 revenue of US $156 million, Faraday is one of the
largest fabless ASIC companies in the Asia-Pacific region, and
it also has a significant presence in other worldwide markets.
Headquartered in Taiwan, Faraday has service and support offices
around the world, including the U.S., Japan, Europe, and China.
For more information, please visit: www.faraday-tech.com.
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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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