Toshiba Supports Sequence PowerTheater for Power Management from RTL to Signoff; PowerTheater Demonstrates Accuracy, Performance and Capacity at RTL & Gate.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Sequence Design, Inc. today announced that Toshiba America Electronics Components, Inc. (TAEC) has introduced a design kit to support its custom system-on-chip (SoC) and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) customers using Sequence Design's PowerTheater. The new kit supports designs for enhancing the Toshiba low-power methodology design flow using its TC280 (130nm) and TC300 (90nm) process technologies with support planned for future processes. Customers now can use this qualified flow for RTL power estimation and analysis with PowerTheater.

"Power management is extremely important to our success in the consumer electronics market," said Shigenori Imazato, vice president of engineering for the TAEC Design Centers. "PowerTheater can estimate power at the RT level with verifiable accuracy to silicon. Key to our selection of PowerTheater was the large number of successful tape-outs completed within Toshiba for both RTL and gate-level power analysis. By offering and supporting this kit, our customers can now have the ability to predict power early in the design cycle. It enables our customers to achieve design power goals and better manage power integrity during physical implementation."

PowerTheater was benchmarked on a 10-million gate ASIC to establish 15 percent accuracy between RTL and gates. Operating on a 64-bit platform, PowerTheater analyzed power on the entire design both at RTL and gates in less than overnight runs.

"While RTL power technology continues to be our biggest differentiator with PowerTheater, we have achieved a breakthrough in performance and capacity for overnight turns on designs up to 50 million gates," said Piyush Sancheti, vice president of product management at Sequence. "The new 2005.1 release of PowerTheater enables power profiling at the gate-level to help identify the key cycles for detailed power integrity analysis during physical layout."

"Adoption of PowerTheater for TAEC Design Centers and its future customers broadens our strong relationship with and commitment to Toshiba worldwide. We are excited that Sequence power analysis and optimization products are adding value not only to Toshiba but now also to their customers worldwide," said Vic Kulkarni, president and CEO of Sequence. "Since the very beginning of Sequence, Toshiba has been a key technology partner with its leadership in low-power applications and design techniques."

About PowerTheater

The PowerTheater product suite offers a comprehensive set of capabilities for low-power RTL design and full-chip power analysis that easily fits into existing mainstream flows while providing design teams with the means of taming power consumption. Accuracy is achieved through a combination of special-purpose estimation algorithms and carefully crafted modeling techniques. Key features include:

--  Full-chip RTL power profiling and debugging using
       PowerTheater's graphical user interface to highlight power hot
       spots to enable algorithm and architecture tradeoffs

   --  RTL clock power estimation and prediction of power saving with
       clock gating

    -- Low-power RTL block design to perform design tradeoffs and
       power reduction using low power guidelines and power lint
       checks

   --  Single-pass mixed language support for Verilog, Verilog2001
       and VHDL

   --  Gate-level power verification including new technology for
       power and current profiling to debug power and enable
       selection of appropriate cycles for downstream power integrity
       analysis

   --  For more PowerTheater information and data sheet:
       http://www.sequencedesign.com/2_solutions/2b_power_theater.html

About Sequence

Sequence Design, Inc. enables system-on-chip designers to bring higher-performance and power-aware nanometer integrated circuits quickly to fabrication. Sequence's power and signal-integrity software give its more than 125 customers the competitive advantage necessary 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 the ARM Connected Community(TM), Cadence Design Systems' Connections(TM), and Mentor Graphics' Open Door(TM) partnership programs. Additional information is available at sequencedesign.com.

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