Apache Announces RedHawk-EV, the Next Generation Physical Power Integrity Solution for Power Closure Sign-off.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Apache Design Solutions, the technology leader in physical power integrity solutions for system-on-chip (SoC) designs, today announced RedHawk-EV, the next-generation dynamic power analysis and verification solution. RedHawk-EV provides: 1) increased coverage for design weakness identification and exploration, 2) automatic supply noise repair for power closure sign-off, and 3) higher capacity for transient simulation of SoC designs. RedHawk-EV combines the new EV technology and Apache's proven full-chip vectorless dynamic solution with network and timing analysis for extensive coverage of the power space and exploration of physical design weakness. By identifying the precise locations of design weaknesses and their impact on dynamic voltage drop Noun 1. voltage drop - a decrease in voltage along a conductor through which current is flowing free fall, drop, dip, fall - a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary and ground bounce In electronic engineering, ground bounce is a phenomenon associated with transistor switching where the gate voltage can appear to be less than the local ground potential, causing the unstable operation of a logic gate. , RedHawk-EV allows designers to not only verify potential power-related functional and timing behavior, but also avoid excessive over-design. "We have used RedHawk-SDL for complex ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. designs over the past year," said Shinichi Kozu, senior engineering manager, broadband LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. technology strategic business unit, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Electronics America, Inc. "The new network-aware vectorless capability in RedHawk-EV enabled us to quickly identify several potential power structure issues in a current high-performance tapeout, which may have been more difficult to find with static-only analysis." The EV technology can also automatically repair the cause of supply noise to eliminate dynamic and static "hot spots hot spots acute moist dermatitis. ," which can produce timing failures and low yield. The EV technology offers targeted wire fixing, including non-uniform grid re-sizing to meet the needs of high power regions. In combination with wire fixing, EV recommends decoupling Decoupling The occurrence of returns on asset classes diverging from their normal pattern of correlation. Notes: Take for example stock and corporate bond returns, which normally rise and fall together. capacitance placement with consideration for impact on total leakage current. From early in the design process through final validation, RedHawk-EV not only identifies and analyzes the causes of dynamic power issues but also quickly and effectively fixes the problem to ensure power closure sign-off. With new database techniques embedded within the EV technology, designers are no longer constrained by the memory footprint Memory footprint refers to the amount of main memory that a program uses or references while running. This includes all sorts of active memory regions like code, static data sections (both initialized and uninitialized), heap, as well as all the stacks, plus memory required to hold of their available computing resources. RedHawk-EV has enabled customers to tape out production designs with more than 15 million placeable instances. In addition, the new database technique can natively handle 45-degree geometries, significantly reducing the memory required to handle such structures. "Apache led the market 18 months ago by introducing the first vectorless dynamic power solution, and continues to lead with more than 30 worldwide customer adoptions and extensive silicon correlations. Today we are introducing the next generation technology targeting the challenges of upcoming low-power and high-performance designs," said Andrew Yang, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Apache. "As the market moves beyond 90nm, RedHawk-EV's power closure flow will play a critical role in silicon success and increased yield." Availability RedHawk-EV will be available in Q2 of this year. It is licensed on Linux, Sun Solaris, and HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. . All existing RedHawk-SDL customers will be automatically upgraded to RedHawk-EV. About Apache Design Solutions Apache is a provider of innovative next-generation physical power integrity software that accelerates the design process and guarantees the reliability of high performance system-on-a-chip designs. By providing tools for power, timing, and system I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output integrity, Apache enables leading networking, wireless, communication, consumer, and semiconductor companies to develop highly competitive and reliable products. With minimal setup, Apache's physical design integrity products are used early in the design process for 130 nanometer designs and below, delivering the highest standards of computational performance, capacity handling, and integrity. For more information, including a white paper on dynamic analysis, visit www.apache-da.com. Apache Design Solutions, NSPICE, RedHawk-SDL, RedHawk-EV, SkyHawk, and Vectorless Dynamic are trademarks of Apache Design Solutions, Inc. |
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