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Sequence Extends Low-Power Leadership: Two New Patents, CTO Frenkil Featured In New Design Tome
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Nov. 2, 2007 - Sequence Design, EDA's Design-For-Power (DFP) technology leader, continues to excel by adding two important patents and announcing Sequence CTO Jerry Frenkil has a featured chapter in a new book about low-power design.Sequence's two new patents enable greater power reduction during physical design. U.S. Patent No.7222318, "Circuit Optimization For Minimum Path Timing Violations," describes a method to optimize delay insertions for reducing timing violations. U.S. Patent No.7222311, "Method And Apparatus For Interconnect-Driven Optimization of Integrated Circuit Design," enables post-layout optimization of an integrated circuit, so designers can avoid costly design iteration loops that require re-synthesis, re-place and re-route. Both patents target timing optimizations which are used to realize greater leakage and dynamic power reduction during physical design.
Sequence currently holds 26 U.S. Patents, and Frenkil says R&D is "focused like a laser beam" on advancing the company's comprehensive DFP strategy. "Designers recognize that effective power management is now a necessity," Frenkil said. "The Sequence DFP flow gives them the tools and methodologies they need today to be successful."
Sequence DFP Advantage
During design, the Sequence DFP flow offers:
- Early power analysis at RTL enabling efficient design for power when such efforts are most effective
- The industry's most comprehensive portfolio of power reduction and power debug solutions available at RTL that demonstrate 25-50% power savings
- Qualification of simulation vectors for package selection and power-grid design
- Accelerated, predictable power closure of large (>800M transistors) high-performance designs with more than 33% advantage in time to market
- Reliable power-grid integrity with a comprehensive set of technologies for a variety of low-power design techniques
- 20-60% leakage power reduction while preserving timing and signal integrity, achieving time-to-market savings of 7-10 days per SoC block
A new book from Springer, "Closing the Power Gap Between ASIC & Custom, Tools and Techniques for Low-Power Design," describes how to achieve low power and energy efficiency in highly productive design methodologies. Frenkil's chapter, co-authored with Srini Venkatraman, principal R&D engineer at Sequence, covers power-gating techniques and methods to control leakage power. For more information: http://www.springer.com/west/home/generic/search/results?SGWID=4-40109-22-77145813-0
About Sequence Design
Sequence Design accelerates the ability of SoC designers to bring high-performance, power-aware ICs quickly to market. Sequence Design-For-Power solutions give customers the competitive advantage necessary to excel in aggressive technology markets. For more information: http://www.sequencedesign.com.
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