Atrenta and Mentor Collaborate on SoC Power Signoff
31 5월 2013 - 12:00AM
Business Wire
Atrenta Inc., the leading provider of SoC Realization solutions
for the semiconductor and consumer electronics industries, today
announced that it is collaborating with Mentor Graphics Corporation
(NASDAQ: MENT) to enable accurate, signoff quality power
estimation at the register transfer level (RTL) for the entire
system on chip (SoC) device. The project aims to radically improve
SoC design efficiency by facilitating RTL power estimation for
designs in excess of 50 million gates, running actual software
scenarios over hundreds of millions cycles, resulting in large
simulation data sets in excess of 10Gbytes.
The collaboration between the two companies has resulted in an
interface between the Mentor Veloce2 emulator and Atrenta’s
SpyGlass Power RTL power estimation tool to allow estimation of SoC
power and validation of power budgets at the full-chip level. The
interface files from the emulator significantly differ from files
generated by standard RTL simulation tools since they are optimized
for large data sets over millions of cycles. The collaboration
enables SpyGlass Power to consume specific data generated by
Veloce2 in switching activity interface format (SAIF) and files
system database (FSDB) industry formats.
Traditionally, RTL power estimation is performed at the block
level due to the lack of full-chip SoC simulation data for accurate
dynamic power estimation in the different functional modes of the
chip. SoC power is then calculated by adding the power numbers of
the sub-blocks. The sum of the power of the blocks does not always
correlate to the total power consumed by the chip due to the
activity caused by complex interfaces between the sub-blocks. This
often results in surprises during the final tapeout as the power
budgets for the SoC can be way off.
“This collaboration will enable our customers to get signoff
quality power estimates at RTL for the full SoC thanks to activity
profiles generated by Mentor’s Veloce2 emulator while running
actual embedded and application software,” said Piyush Sancheti,
vice president of product marketing at Atrenta. “RTL power
estimation with realistic application scenarios is a winning
combination for low power design and optimization.”
“Mentor is dedicated to providing the best possible low-power
design and verification tools to drive our customer’s success,”
said Eric Selosse, vice president and general manager, Mentor
Emulation Division. “The cooperation with Atrenta is significant
for Mentor and our customers to make sure that power issues get
resolved early in the design cycle.”
Atrenta and Mentor Graphics will showcase the results of this
collaboration in their respective booths at the 50th Design
Automation Conference (DAC) in Austin, Texas. For details and
signup, please visit http://www.atrenta.com/DAC2013/sessions.php
and http://www.mentor.com/events/design-automation-conference. The
Veloce2/SpyGlass Power flow is available now. The respective tools
can be purchased from Mentor Graphics and Atrenta.
About Atrenta
Atrenta’s SpyGlass® Predictive Analysis software platform
significantly improves design efficiency for the world’s leading
semiconductor and consumer electronics companies. Patented
solutions provide early design insight into the demanding
performance, power and area requirements of the complex system on
chips (SoCs) fueling today’s consumer electronics revolution. More
than two hundred companies and thousands of design engineers
worldwide rely on SpyGlass to reduce risk and cost before
traditional EDA tools are deployed. SpyGlass functions like an
interactive guidance system for design engineers and managers,
finding the fastest and least expensive path to implementation for
complex SoCs. SpyGlass from Atrenta: Insight. Efficiency.
Confidence. www.atrenta.com
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation is a world leader in electronic
hardware and software design solutions, providing products,
consulting services and award-winning support for the world’s most
successful electronic, semiconductor and systems companies.
Established in 1981, the company reported revenues in the last
fiscal year of about $1,015 million. Corporate headquarters are
located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777.
World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements. Atrenta
disclaims any obligation and does not undertake to update or revise
the forward-looking statements in this press release.
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