Sequence Delivers DVD-Aware Timing, Advanced Power Flow for Sandbridge Technologies Next-Gen Wireless Designs.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. -- Sequence Design, the EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. leader in power-aware SoC design solutions, today announced that wireless IC pioneer Sandbridge Technologies has adopted Sequence's PowerTheater and CoolTime for "timing-aware" 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 optimization on its next-generation products. Sandbridge has created a series of increasingly sophisticated baseband chips for wireless applications. These multi-million gate devices present unique challenges, requiring more silicon- and power-aware design technologies to achieve a successful end product. The Sandbridge team deployed the Sequence flow on one of their power-gated designs to analyze, optimize, and verify dynamic voltage drop on their power and ground rails. PowerTheater enabled the team to minimize the number of simulation vectors required for identifying the most critical simulation cycles for dynamic voltage drop and to set up CoolTime for detailed power and ground simulation, using both power switch and package parasitics for the highest accuracy analyses. Additionally, CoolTime optimized the dynamic voltage drop by automating the insertion of decoupling capacitors in critical areas. CoolTime's ability to limit voltage drop without impacting timing or signal integrity is particularly noteworthy, thanks to a built-in timing engine that enables concurrent analysis and optimization of electrical effects. CoolTime also computes the impact of dynamic voltage drop on timing and signal integrity while accurately accounting for the interdependence of events, currents, and voltages within a single tool. CoolTime's library characterization feature using SPICE enables the accurate calculation of voltage drop effects on cell delays and transition times. "Good planning, along with sound methodologies and tools lay the groundwork for success at 90nm and below," said Gary Nacer, Sandbridge vice president of engineering. "Sequence has focused technology for the development of low-power designs." "The power-aware design challenge for market and technology leaders such as Sandbridge is to produce quality silicon while consistently hitting critical time-to-market windows," said Sequence president and 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. Vic Kulkarni. "We are very pleased to know both PowerTheater and CoolTime are playing important roles in the design of these next-generation products." About Sequence Power Solutions Sequence Design has forged a strong integration between PowerTheater and CoolTime to provide a complete power analysis and optimization platform for large designs. PowerTheater is the industry standard for low-power design at RTL (Register Transfer Level) A high-level hardware description language (HDL) for defining digital circuits. The circuits are described as a collection of registers, Boolean equations, control logic such as "if-then-else" statements as well as complex event sequences; , with capabilities ranging from early RTL analysis to full-chip power estimates for today's largest designs. CoolTime solves for timing and signal integrity, static IR drop, electromigration (EM) and dynamic voltage drop. With more than 150 successful tape-outs at customers worldwide, CoolTime addresses problems unique to nanometer SoCs using 130, 90, and 65nm processes with a concurrent engine that accelerates design closure for even the largest, high-performance designs. About Sandbridge Technologies (www.sandbridgetech.com) Located in White Plains, NY, Sandbridge Technologies is a fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. that is transforming and revitalizing the global wireless handset market by enabling freedom from fixed functionality baseband solutions -- providing better features-to-cost ratio, and accelerating the development of next generation wireless devices. Founded in 2001 by veterans of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Lucent and Cadence, Sandbridge has developed a radical new multi-thread DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive architecture with the capacity to perform flexible (SDR See software defined radio. ) baseband processing and advanced multimedia operations without compromising battery consumption. Sandbridge Technologies Inc. is a venture funded company with investments by Bessemer Venture Partners Bessemer Venture Partners is a private venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Massachusetts, China, and India. It has backed such companies as Ciena, Flarion, Parametric Technologies, Skype, Staples, VeriSign and Veritas. , Atlas Venture Atlas Venture is an international early-stage venture capital firm that invests in communications, information technology, and life sciences companies. Atlas Venture has investing offices in Boston, London, Munich, and Paris, and its investments are evenly divided between the and Columbia Capital and other strategic investors. About Sequence Sequence Design accelerates the ability of SoC designers to bring high-performance, power-aware ICs quickly to market. Sequence's power and signal-integrity software solutions give customers the competitive advantage necessary to excel in aggressive technology markets, despite the demanding complexity and time-to-market issues of nanometer design. Sequence serves over 150 customers worldwide, in application segments such as consumer, wireless, mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings , multimedia, cell phones, digital cameras, network-on-chip processors, and other power-sensitive markets. Sequence has worldwide development and field-service operations and is privately held. Please see sequencedesign.com. All trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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