Analysis engine provides access to more power data

Power analysis engine gains state-of-the art power visualisation and debug capabilities for fast, interactive power reduction.

Sequence Design has added a novel extension to its power analysis engine that adds state-of-the art power visualisation and debug capabilities for fast, interactive power reduction.

"Users will experience immediate productivity gains when using PowerTheater-Explorer", said Sequence President and CEO Vic Kulkarni.

"It provides access to more power data that can be manipulated at both the RTL and gate levels of abstraction than any other solution".

A new SmartSource Viewer allows designers to determine hot spots in the design, to visualise, debug and interactively determine ways to reduce a design's power.

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 analysed at RTL, gate, or mixed levels of abstraction.

SmartSource also provides a dedicated view of the clock tree for fast isolation and optimisation.

The integrated waveform viewer in PowerTheater-Explorer can input qualified vectors for all modes of operation and report average modal power for package selection, or worst-case for preventing dynamic voltage drop problems.

Waveforms can be viewed simultaneously to debug power problems, including power over time, peak power, and comparisons between logic and power waveforms.

Customised power analysis features in PowerTheater-Explorer allow designers to write their own power data analysers and reporting algorithms, as the design data are stored in OpenAccess, an Si2 standard database.

PowerTheater-Explorer is also useful in power regression testing, for block or full-chip analysis.

The PowerTheater analysis engine can run multiple power regressions at RTL overnight, and post process data to determine power budget problems.

PowerTheater-Explorer is the debug and visualisation tool for power reduction.

This new analysis environment lets large design groups employ PowerTheater engines for power estimation, and multiple PowerTheater-Explorers for visualisation and debug for a focused team effort on power management.

PowerTheater-Explorer is sold as an option to PowerTheater, allowing more engineers access to PowerTheater for maximum cost-effectiveness.

PowerTheater-Explorer is part of the Sequence Design-For-Power flow.

PowerTheater-Explorer will be available Q3 2007.

North America price begins at US $30,000 for a one-year licence.

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