Power Aware Verification Web Seminar

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Overview

With total power consumption of an IC now one of the major design constraints, design teams have started to adopt low power design techniques (e.g. Power Gating with/ without retention, Multi Voltage Multi Supply, Adaptive Voltage and Frequency scaling etc) in order to meet their power budgets.

The use of these low power design techniques introduces, among other things, verification challenges since new digital functionality has to be added in order to control the voltage of the power sources in order to reduce total power consumption including leakage and switching power components.

Often times, there is a software component that forms part of the overall low power design which must be verified as well. Until recently, verification of low power designs were done using adhoc practices that did not scale across projects in an organization..

In this session we will look at how new standards, verification tools and techniques can be applied to allow low power designs being verified much earlier at the RTL including the software components.

What You Will Learn

  • Overview of the Low power design techniques
  • Specification of low power design architecture in an SoC using IEEE 1801 UPF
  • Low power bugs that could be introduced as a result of adopting Low power design techniques
  • Early verification of low power designs at RTL leveraging power aware simulation tools and static checks

About the Presenter

Presenter Image Gabriel Chidolue

Gabriel Chidolue is a Verification Technologist within the Design Verification Technology Division at Mentor Graphics.

He is responsible for deployment of new and emerging Verification technologies including low power verification through close collaboration with strategic partners. In this role, Gabriel works closely with customers, partners and R & D worldwide to create low power verification tools and methodologies that helps address the various verification challenges being faced by customers and partners. He has authored and co-authored papers and industry articles on low power verification.

Gabriel Chidolue holds an MSc in Concurrent Engineering in Electronic Product Design from Bournemouth University UK and B. Eng in Electrical Engineering from University of Nigeria

Who Should Attend

  • Design Engineers
  • Project Managers
  • Engineering Managers

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Technical Instructions

Technical Requirements

What do I need to watch and hear this web seminar?

Mentor Graphics’ web seminars are delivered using Adobe Connect. To watch the seminar all you need to have installed is the Adobe Flash Player, version 8 or later on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris. The Flash Player is already installed on over 98% of internet connected computers worldwide so you will not have to install any software prior to attending the meeting. You will be able to login to the seminar room 15 minutes prior to the start time on the day of the presentation. You can hear the audio using your computer’s speakers via VoIP (Voice over IP) and background music will play prior to the beginning of the presentation.

Detailed system requirements

Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business, or Enterprise (32-bit edition)

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or later
  • Mozilla Firefox 2
  • Adobe Flash® Player 8 or later

Microsoft Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition with Service Pack 2

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x
  • Mozilla 1.x or later
  • Netscape 7.x
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x
  • Mozilla 1.x
  • Netscape 8
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Windows hardware requirements

  • Intel® Pentium® II 450MHz or faster processor or equivalent (1GHz recommended when screen sharing)
  • 128MB of RAM

Mac OS X v10.4, 10.5 (Intel)

  • Firefox 1.5.0.3, 2.x
  • Safari 2.x
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Mac OS X v10.4 (PowerPC®)

  • Safari 1.x, 2.x
  • Firefox 1.x
  • Mozilla 1.x
  • Netscape 7.x or later
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Mac OS hardware requirements

  • PowerPC G3 500MHz or faster or Intel Core™ Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor
  • 128MB of RAM

Linux:

  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (REHL) 3 update 8; RHEL 4 update 4 (AS/ES/WS); Novell SUSE® 9.x or 10.1
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7, 2.x
  • Mozilla 1.7.x
  • SeaMonkey 1.0.5
  • Processor: Modern processor 800MHz or faster (1GHz recommended)
  • Memory: 512MB of RAM; 128MB of graphics memory
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 or later

Solaris™

  • Mozilla 1.7
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 or later

Additional requirements

  • Minimum bandwidth 56Kbps