CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

8 April 2008

Implementation Investments

Axell Reduces Power, Increases Productivity With Sequence’s PowerTheater

Axell Corporation, an emerging Japanese multimedia chip supplier, has selected Sequence Design’s PowerTheater for precision power calculations at RTL, routinely reducing power consumption by as much as 20 percent according to Kazunori Matsuura, Engineering Group Director, Axell Corporation. Axell recently taped out a complex graphic chip comprising multi-million gate devices with PowerTheater.

“With a very precise measurement of power at RTL we could determine power budgets and make packaging decisions early in the design cycle which reduces costs significantly,” Matsuura said. “In addition to its outstanding accuracy at RT level, PowerTheater was also quite easy to use. Designers could visualize and resolve power-related problems quickly.”

“We have been working closely with leading semiconductor vendors in Japan for several years to provide them with Design for Power (DFP) solutions,” said Tom Miller, Sequence Design Vice President and Head of R&D, Front-End Products. “We have now expanded our strategy to work with emerging, innovative companies like Axell who are concerned about power. We were impressed by Axell’s engineering team which was able to quickly bring up PowerTheater and accelerate their time to market while achieving significant power savings in their complex designs.”

For more information, visit: http://www.sequencedesign.com/solutions/powertheater.php.

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