Welcome to our first CoolCircuit Newsletter of 2008. This is going to be an exciting year for Sequence as we will be announcing our next-generation tool suite for automated RTL power reduction at DAC, furthering our commitment to bringing you the industry's most complete and powerful Design For Power™ (DFP) flow.

Our DFP initiative, launched last year, is in response to overwhelming customer demand for solutions that was recently brought home when we surveyed some of Japan's leading IC designers. More than 60 percent of them listed power analysis and reduction as their biggest design challenge.

DFP represents a holistic approach to power, enabling power exploration from the architectural level through physical implementation, reducing power while preventing power problems in timing, SI, and power grid design, with our unique silicon-aware design techniques. Customers using the DFP Flow are reporting RTL power reduction of up to 50 percent, a 50 percent speedup in design closure times, and leakage power reduction of up to 1,000X. In one notable example, a major wireless IC company used PowerTheater to fix three major power bugs in their design, resulting as much as a 50 percent reduction in active power.

The DFP Flow comprises PowerTheater for RTL power analysis and reduction, with new PowerTheater-Explorer for power visualization and debug. Accelerated design closure, power reduction, and power-grid integrity is supplied by the company's CoolProducts family, now with power gating analysis and simultaneous switching noise options. The award-winning Columbus extraction engine provides statistical corner parasitics for significantly increased margin in the DFP flow.

Complete results from this survey, obtained from engineers from Fujitsu, Matsushita, NEC, Sony, Toshiba, and several others are shown below.




Sequence has maintained its technology leadership position by remaining committed to addressing and overcoming these challenges since its founding, and we look forward to working with you in the years ahead to continue solving them.