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Power optimization starts early in the process
Brian Bailey
5/24/2012 11:02 AM EDT
In the recent power series on EDA Designline, you will have noted many people saying that the greatest opportunities for saving power are early in the design process. For many companies today, that means RTL, but one company is pushing much further up the abstract ladder to ESL. Also, thermal management is becoming a big issue for chips and especially significant when 2.5 or 3-D IC are considered.
Docea Power is a company tackling system level power, thermal analysis and modeling and they have just announced version 3.0 of their Aceplorer tool. It now includes an event scheduler for enhanced scenario creation capabilities and support for thermal models generated by AceThermalModeler for coupled power and thermal simulations capabilities. The event scheduler complements the existing timed flow chart creation and vcd import capabilities. In addition, they have announced AceThermalModeler 1.1 with an enhanced 3D viewer for fast model debugging.
Aceplorer models and optimizes electronic design power and thermal consumption for early architecture exploration, architecture validation and power budget tracking during electronic design implementation stages, and AceThermalModeler creates compact RC thermal models for complete systems from SoCs to System-in-Packages (SiP), 3-D ICs to complete boards.
Aceplorer 3.0’s new features include an event scheduler to automate the creation of timed scenarios from parallel tasks and workload definitions with different arbitration schemes, along with the support for thermal models created with AceThermalModeler. The event scheduler complements the existing timed flow chart creation and vcd import capabilities already in place and used to automate the creations of use cases.
More information can be found here or see them at DAC – Booth # 1702
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Docea Power is a company tackling system level power, thermal analysis and modeling and they have just announced version 3.0 of their Aceplorer tool. It now includes an event scheduler for enhanced scenario creation capabilities and support for thermal models generated by AceThermalModeler for coupled power and thermal simulations capabilities. The event scheduler complements the existing timed flow chart creation and vcd import capabilities. In addition, they have announced AceThermalModeler 1.1 with an enhanced 3D viewer for fast model debugging.
Aceplorer models and optimizes electronic design power and thermal consumption for early architecture exploration, architecture validation and power budget tracking during electronic design implementation stages, and AceThermalModeler creates compact RC thermal models for complete systems from SoCs to System-in-Packages (SiP), 3-D ICs to complete boards.
Aceplorer 3.0’s new features include an event scheduler to automate the creation of timed scenarios from parallel tasks and workload definitions with different arbitration schemes, along with the support for thermal models created with AceThermalModeler. The event scheduler complements the existing timed flow chart creation and vcd import capabilities already in place and used to automate the creations of use cases.
More information can be found here or see them at DAC – Booth # 1702
Brian Bailey – keeping you covered
If you found this article to be of interest, visit EDA Designline where you will find the latest and greatest design, technology, product, and news articles with regard to all aspects of Electronic Design Automation (EDA).
Also, you can obtain a highlights update delivered directly to your inbox by signing up for the EDA Designline weekly newsletter – just Click Here to request this newsletter using the Manage Newsletters tab (if you aren't already a member you'll be asked to register, but it's free and painless so don't let that stop you).
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