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News Release from: Acad Corp | Subject: FinePower
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 January 2003
Startup provides SoC power analysis
FinePower is a dynamic power and IR drop analysis tool for SoC designs that is claimed to be capable of identifying peak IR drop values without any user-defined estimation factors.
FinePower is a dynamic power and IR drop analysis tool for SoC designs that is claimed to be capable of identifying peak IR drop values without any user-defined estimation factors The EDA tool monitors IR drop variation during the simulation time and extracts the maximum IR drop period and position
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 3 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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LG has selected Acad's FinePower IR drop and electromigration analysis tool for the design and verification of a complex full chip used in its latest digital TV.
Using the gate-level power library and event information from VCD, FinePower computes the current signature in the time-domain for a comprehensive IR drop simulation.
The tool adopts the company's global peak searching (GPS) algorithm to improve analysis speed and accuracy.
The GPS algorithm divides the simulation into regions in order to focus on the time regions that consume more power than other regions.
The VCD is used to get the time and events of node and cells, from which power consumption is simulated using a detailed matrix solver-like algorithm.
FinePower also supports hybrid analysis to enable designers to analyse at the transistor level as well as gate level at the same time.
It also includes non-switching gate effect in gate level and the gate/junction capacitance of MOS in transistor level, to further improve accuracy.
The EDA tool also performs timing closure, electromigration, RLC pin modelling, what-if analysis, and SDF generation functions, and also offers a delay calculator.
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