CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
7 February 2008
Implementation Investments
Atheros Selects Sequence PowerTheater for Power Management
Atheros Communications, Inc., a leading developer of advanced low power wireless solutions, chose Sequence Design’s PowerTheater for early power management and low-power architecture evaluation for their new embedded wireless designs.
“We want no surprises in meeting our power spec. PowerTheater enables us to detect any errant dynamic power in RTL phase, while taking into account power reduction by clock-gating in low power synthesis,” said Patrick Chan, Low Power Architect for Atheros. “Low power offers a critical competitive advantage for embedded wireless solutions.”
To meet their aggressive power targets, the Atheros design team uses a variety of PowerTheater power reduction techniques, including early power analysis at RTL, architectural exploration, multi-Vt, clock and data gating, automated Wattbots and power linters, and voltage islands.
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