CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
13 April 2005
Product News
Magma and ARM Announce Comprehensive, Low-Power Implementation Solution for Low-Power SoC Designs
Magma® Design Automation Inc . and ARM announced the availability of a complete RTL-to-GDSII, low-power implementation solution for system-on-chip (SoC) designs. The solution uses Magma's Blast PowerT product to enable designers to create a single integrated implementation that provides significant power reduction when the SoC is in asynchronous mode, while maintaining optimal performance when operating synchronously.
This low-power extension to the existing ARM-Magma reference methodology utilizes Magma's Blast Power to implement a number of power reduction techniques. These include support for designs with multiple supply voltage domains , concurrent multi-VT optimization, power gating with MTCMOS, clock gating and multi-mode analysis and optimization. In addition, Blast RailT has been incorporated to provide static, dynamic and transient power and voltage drop analysis. The presence of multiple voltage islands in the design is handled automatically with physically aware level shifter and isolation cell insertion coupled with automatic power grid synthesis and voltage domain-based optimization.
This solution has been enabled with an ARM® MetroT standard cell library and provides customers with the ability to rapidly implement low-power designs with minimal manual intervention, thereby significantly reducing time-to-market for power sensitive SoC designs.
"A complete, low- power implementation solution is critical to our customer's success," said Neal Carney, vice president of marketing, ARM Physical IP. "By enabling Magma to develop a comprehensive low-power solution with our IP products, we are together ensuring the success of our mutual customers by enabling the rapid implementation and deployment of advanced, energy efficient IP."
"Magma has been working with key customers for several years to develop a comprehensive low-power solution," said Premal Buch, general manager Magma's Design Implementation Business Unit. "Magma's integrated flow lends itself well to enabling the power versus timing versus area tradeoffs throughout the RTL-to-GDSII flow. We are seeing a clear momentum from our customers toward adopting this solution to help meet the needs of their low-power designs, especially at 90 nanometers and even more advanced processes."
"Magma is pro-active in developing a total solution ahead of designers' needs," said Michael Ma, vice president, Foundry and IP Relationships at Magma. "This implementation flow with the ARM Metro low-power library continues our drive to enable designers to tackle 90-nanometer and newer design challenges."
Availability
Blast Power, Blast Rail and the low-power design methodology are available from Magma.
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