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 Sequence
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SANTA CLARA,
Calif. - Oct. 30, 2006 - Sequence Design and Synfora Inc.
today announced the creation of an integrated flow incorporating
Sequence's PowerTheater RTL power-analysis tool with Synfora's
PICO Express Application Engine Synthesis (AES). Strengthening
the collaboration, Synfora has joined the InSequence Technology
Partner Program, promoting EDA interoperability and advanced
design methodologies.
"Our work through the InSequence program allows us to
combine two powerful design technologies and offer our mutual
customers the ability to explore power optimization at the
architecture level," said Simon Napper, Synfora president
and CEO. "This combination provides the user with unequaled
insight into performance, area, and power for advanced SoCs
early in the design, when analysis and design tradeoffs can
have maximum impact."
PICO Express bridges the SoC design productivity gap by enabling
the automatic generation of optimal architectures and synthesizable
RTL from untimed C algorithms. As a result of using PICO Express,
designers achieve significant reductions in the cost and risk
of designing a SoC while being able to innovate and differentiate
their end product. By integrating PICO Express with Sequence's
PowerTheater, users can now generate multiple trial implementations
and then run PowerTheater to estimate power at RTL and, later,
at the gate level. The generated power data allows users to
examine tradeoffs for performance, area, and power to reduce
design iterations and optimize the design's power profile.
"By accelerating the early analysis of performance, area,
and power, we provide a power-aware, higher level of productivity
for SoC design," said Holly Stump, Sequence vice president
of marketing. "Our collaboration with Synfora promises
to provide breakthrough competitive benefits for designers
in power-sensitive markets."
The integrated flow is now available; interested parties may
contact either Sequence or Synfora for additional information.
Synfora is the latest in a series of InSequence partnerships,
joining a variety of EDA vendors, foundries, IP providers,
design services, platform vendors and universities.
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| About PowerTheater |
| PowerTheater is the industry
standard for low-power design at RTL. Capabilities include accurate
RTL power analysis closely correlated to actual silicon; power
management tools that allow designers to reduce power at RTL
using "what-if" scenarios and make early tradeoffs
at the architectural level; power vector forward technology
to select vectors for downstream analysis, feeding them to later
stages of the design cycle for gate-level verification and voltage-drop
analysis; and gate-level power verification, preventing power
creep. |
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| About Synfora |
| Founded in 2003, Synfora
Inc. is the leading provider of application engine synthesis
(AES) software used to design complex systems-on-chips (SoCs)
for integrated consumer devices. Synfora's technology helps
to reduce fixed design costs and dramatically speed chip development
and time-to-market. Synfora serves customers worldwide in the
audio, video, imaging, wireless, and security segments of the
IC design market. The company's investors are ATA Ventures,
Foundation Capital, and U.S. Venture Partners. For latest information
on Synfora, please visit http://www.synfora.com. |
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| About Sequence |
| Sequence Design accelerates
the ability of SoC designers to bring high-performance, power-aware
ICs quickly to market. Sequence's power and signal- integrity
software solutions give customers the competitive advantage
necessary to excel in aggressive technology markets, despite
the demanding complexity and time-to-market issues of nanometer
design. Sequence serves over 150 customers worldwide, in application
segments such as consumer, wireless, mobile computing, multimedia,
cell phones, digital cameras, network-on-chip processors, and
other power-sensitive markets. The company was named by Reed
Electronics as one of the top 10 companies to watch
in the electronics industry, and was recently selected as one
of high-tech's Top 100 companies by siliconindia magazine.
Sequence has worldwide development and field-service operations
and is privately held. Please see
sequencedesign.com. |
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