CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
17 October 2007
Implementation Investments
Stream Processors Inc. Selects Sequence PowerTheater for Power Optimization
Stream Processors Inc. ( SPI ) chose Sequence Design's PowerTheater for early power management and low-power architecture evaluation for their new processor design, reducing power 20-50%.
Based on SPI's revolutionary Stream ProcessorT architecture, our current Storm-1 family delivers the industry's lowest Watt per GOPS (Giga Operations Per Second), and PowerTheater has enabled us to further reduce power by slashing analysis iteration cycle times by 3-4X while the sophisticated tools suite provided comprehensive feedback," said Paul Filanowski, SPI's Vice President of Hardware Engineering. "Low power reduces package cost, allows us to meet stringent customer requirements and extend our market frontier into cost and power-sensitive markets that used to be dependent on custom, non-programmable, ASICs."
SPI's design team used a variety of PowerTheater power management capabilities including clock gating and data gating optimizations, multi-Vt libraries and automated Wattbots. Stimulus and modal operation is also a critical part of understanding power consumption. Since SPI's product is a software programmable processor, block-level regression power testing at both typical-case and worst-case conditions was an important part of the SPI design methodology.
Positive power management in SPI's DSP platforms translates to market competitiveness; accelerated time to market, reduced costs of IC packaging and ultimate end product; improved yield and reliability; and ultimately success in the marketplace for Stream Processors, and its customers.
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