Ubicom Demonstrates 25% Power Reduction With Sequence PowerTheater.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; Power Flow Provides Early, Fast, Accurate Results 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. -- Communications and Media Processor standout Ubicom has chosen Sequence Design's PowerTheater because it demonstrated the ability to reduce power consumption in its multi-core IC logic arrays by 25 percent. Ubicom designers employed multiple PowerTheater features on the latest member of their StreamEngine 5000[TM] family, including RTL power analysis and optimization, RTL clock power analysis, and automated power-reducing Wattbots and power linters. This chip, which includes 10 MPUs, commercial IP, memory, and 350K gates of standard cell logic, was designed at 130nm. Clock power was 45 percent of the total power budget, which is common. "Sequence is 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 design tools," Jon Gibbons Famous people named Gibbons include:
(1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. Engineering said. "We have been impressed with PowerTheater's ability to measure and significantly reduce power in designs early, with a high degree of accuracy. With the PowerTheater RTL power flow, we can dramatically improve our design productivity for power. Sequence has also been a good company to partner with for power technical expertise, applications support and even sales." Gibbons noted that PowerTheater's RTL power analysis demonstrated excellent correlation within 5 percent of gates. He also said the company plans to continue working with Sequence, particularly as they move to advanced process sizes and leakage power becomes more of an issue. Ubicom will use PowerTheater for evaluating what are the most effective techniques to hit the power spec. PowerTheater's advanced capabilities include architectural exploration, RTL power analysis and reduction, clock power management, modal analysis Modal analysis is the study of the dynamic properties of structures under vibrational excitation. Modal Analysis, or more accurately Experimental Modal Analysis, is the field of measuring and analysing the dynamic response of structures and or fluids when excited by an input. , and support for "silicon-aware" power management techniques such as multi-Vt, voltage islands and power gating. For more information: www.sequencedesign.com. Ubicom's StreamEngine 5000[TM] family communications and media processors (CMPs) are a new class of processors specifically designed to meet the stringent requirements for delivering multimedia content to, and within, the digital home. This new generation of processors offers high sustained throughput, deterministic processing, multiple concurrent application management, flexibility, security acceleration, low system and development cost, and fast time to market. About Ubicom, Inc. Ubicom develops communications and media processor (CMP CMP (cytidine monophosphate): see cytosine. (1) (CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, NY, www.cmp.com) Part of United Business Media, CMP is a leading integrated media company that offers a wide variety of publications and services in the information ) and software platforms that address the unique demands of real-time interactive applications and multimedia content delivery in the digital home. The company provides optimized system-level solutions to OEMs for a wide range of products including wireless routers, access points, VoIP gateways, streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. devices, print servers and other network devices. Ubicom's unique multithreaded multithreaded - multithreading processor design, real-time operating system (operating system) Real-Time Operating System - (RTOS) Any operating system where interrupts are guaranteed to be handled within a certain specified maximum time, thereby making it suitable for control of hardware in embedded systems and other time-critical applications. , and application-level solutions combine to ensure a high-quality user experience with unprecedented ease of use. Ubicom is a venture-backed, privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit www.ubicom.com. 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, 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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