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News Release from: Synopsys | Subject: Galaxy
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 July 2006
Faster to market using Galaxy design
platform
Synopsys' Galaxy design platform provides a complete RTL-to-GDSII low-power solution that has enabled customers to develop more competitive products and get them to market faster
Synopsys, a world leader in semiconductor design software, has announced that ARM, DSP Group , Freescale, Infineon Technologies AG, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Realtek Semiconductor, Samsung, STMicroelectronics, Toshiba, UMC and others have successfully taped out more than 15 multi-voltage designs with Synopsys' Galaxy design platform RTL-to-GDSII advanced low-power solution These leading designs target wireless, media processor, medical, DSP, MPEG4, mobile TV, and other applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 Feb 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Synopsys' Galaxy design platform provides a complete RTL-to-GDSII low-power solution that has enabled customers to develop more competitive products and get them to market faster.
The Galaxy design platform delivers the lowest power consumption and highest productivity through its complete low-power solution.
It includes the most advanced low-power techniques, such as multi-voltage and MTCMOS power gating, as well as more commonly used techniques such as clock gating and multi-threshold voltages.
In addition, it performs comprehensive dynamic and leakage power optimisations and analyses throughout the synthesis, physical design, and sign-off phases of the design process.
The Galaxy low-power flow is complemented by the complete set of standards required for successful low-power design.
These include the open-source Liberty library modeling technology which includes the new Composite Current Source (CCS) power extension that provides the accuracy and scaling required for power modeling at sub-90 nanometre geometries, the open-source Synopsys Design Constraints (SDC) format for design and low-power constraints including the new power domain definitions that help specify low-power intent early in the design process, and the open-source Switching Activity Interchange Format (SAIF) for switching activity interchange between tools in the flow.
"Our customers are deploying our most advanced low-power techniques to increase their market competitiveness," said Antun Domic, senior vice president and general manager of the Implementation Group at Synopsys.
"The Galaxy low-power solution has been proven through multiple customer tapeouts to deliver superior results and accelerated time-to-market on some of today's most challenging low-power designs".
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