Tuesday Tech Talk: Power Aware Verification

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Overview

Low power design requires partitioning of a chip into potentially many separate power domains that can be independently powered. For correct operation, on-chip active power management must orchestrate power state transitions as the various domains are powered up and down, and must mediate the interactions between domains in different power states. Power aware verification checks that the planned active power management architecture and controls will operate correctly and will enable the design to operate correctly as the design transitions from one power mode to another. This seminar will present an example design with multiple power domains, power supply networks, and a power control unit. It will present methods used to define the power management architecture, to model power distribution, and to control the power states of the design in a way that that it can be successfully verified with dynamic simulation techniques.

What You Will Learn

  • What are the key components required in a system with active power management
  • Some potential approaches for modelling and controlling a low power system
  • What are the elements of verification that need to be considered to ensure a fully functioning low power system

About the Presenter

Presenter Image Mark Handover

Mark has been involved in the design & verification of complex SoC’s for over 15 years with positions in a number of commercial and Mil-aero companies. He has worked in his current role, as an applications engineer with Mentor Graphics for the past 10 years. Mark holds a BEng in Digital Systems engineering from the University of the West of England, UK.

Who Should Attend

  • Verification Engineers
  • Design Engineers
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

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