Sequence's CoolTime V-Drop & SI Analysis Solution Offers Industry Leading Accuracy and Performance for Nanometer SoC Design; Support for Linux 64-bit Platform Added.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Design Automation Conference 2004 Booth 2107 SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 2004 Sequence Design today announced the new release of CoolTime, the industry's leading dynamic voltage-drop analysis tool that offers users high accuracy, high performance and low memory usage. "CoolTime is the only analysis engine that we've seen in the market for concurrently analyzing timing, signal integrity and voltage-drop in a single engine," said Scott Sellers Scott Sellers (born 16 August 1986) is an American track and field athlete who holds numerous high school records in the high jump. Sellers broke the national indoor record with a jump of 2.27m in Landover, Maryland. , vice president of hardware engineering, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. and co-founder of Azul Systems. "Dynamic voltage-drop can be substantially higher than that of static voltage-drop, necessitating a solution like CoolTime that also accounts for package noise effects and current peaks. Overlooking these effects risks chip failure." The speed of a CoolTime run has increased by four fold. 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 is a third of what was generated from the previous generation of the product. These productivity improvements enable CoolTime to perform 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 analysis on a 5 million instances (20-25 million gate), design in an overnight run. This new release of CoolTime permits users to run the tool in high accuracy or high performance mode. Accuwave(TM), the high accuracy mode of CoolTime has achieved accuracy within 5-10% of SPICE on a full SoC, unequaled in customer benchmarks of competing analysis tools. The Accuwave mode utilizes current waveform characterizations of standard cells. The characterization for instantaneous currents, in addition to voltage de-rated timing and glitch A temporary or random hardware malfunction. It is possible that a bug in a program may cause the hardware to appear as if it had a glitch in it and vice versa. At times it can be extremely difficult to determine whether a problem lies within the hardware or the software. See glitch attack. propagation is performed using the Electrical Modeler, ElMo, from Sequence. The waveform characterization can be design-specific or for an entire standard cell library. Design-specific characterization reduces overall characterization runtime with the added benefit of incremental characterization for a new or modified design. CoolTime also has a high performance mode for fast dynamic voltage drop analysis that uses the .lib power libraries for current waveform modeling. This method results in accuracy within 10-15% of SPICE using Sequence patented algorithms for current waveform modeling. The performance and memory benefits are evident in the range of CoolTime functionality, from extraction of power grids to current analysis to voltage drop analysis. Availability The functionality described above is currently available. This new release supports Linux 64-bit operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. on the Opteron and Itanium-2 platforms for Redhat Enterprise Linux. DAC See D/A converter and discretionary access control. DAC - Digital to Analog Converter '04 Demonstrations CoolTime will be demonstrated from June 7-10, 2004 in booth 2107 at the Design Automation Conference in the San Diego Convention Center The San Diego Convention Center is the main convention center for the city of San Diego, California. It is located in the Marina district of downtown San Diego near the Gaslamp Quarter, at 111 West Harbor Drive. . To register, please visit: http://www.sequencedesign.com/3_news/query-form.html. For additional information on CoolTime, please visit: http://www.sequencedesign.com/2_solutions/2b_cooltime.html. About Azul Systems Azul Systems is a dynamic and innovative technology company, based in Silicon Valley, that is ushering in a paradigm shift A dramatic change in methodology or practice. It often refers to a major change in thinking and planning, which ultimately changes the way projects are implemented. For example, accessing applications and data from the Web instead of from local servers is a paradigm shift. See paradigm. that will eliminate much of the cost and complexity associated with delivering compute resources into today's demanding data center environments. For more information about the company, please visit www.azulsystems.com. About Sequence Sequence Design, Inc. enables nanometer SoC (system-on-chip) designers to bring higher-performance and lower-power integrated circuits quickly to fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. . Sequence's power and signal integrity software give its more than 130 customers the competitive advantage they need to excel in aggressive technology markets, despite demanding complexity and time-to-market issues of nanometer design. Sequence has worldwide development and field service operations. The company was recently named by Reed Electronics as one of the top 10 companies to watch in the electronics industry. Sequence is privately held. Sequence is a member of Cadence Design Systems' Connections(TM) and Mentor Graphics' Open Door(TM) partnership programs. Additional information is available at sequencedesign.com. All trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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