How Physical Implementation realizes Power Intent Web Seminar

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Overview

In this Tech Talk we will discuss how to handle power intent within a Place and Route environment whilst meeting all design constraints, modes and corners for best QoR.

The Place and Route stage of a design flow is where the power intent is realized physically for the first time. Power domains become real areas on silicon, interconnect created for power routes, power switches arrayed & placed etc.

Time and effort spent defining power intent and architecting the design earlier in the design flow pays off by giving the digital layout engineer a clear and efficient path to completing the design physically.

For each power state, the operating conditions and functional mode (i.e. sleep, standby, low power, high performance etc) will require appropriate libraries and timing constraints. The power state requirements will also drive the insertion of level-shifters, isolation and retention cells.

What You Will Learn

  • What power intent information is required before physical implementation of a Low Power design
  • How to interpret power intent physically
  • The use of a “power format” file which defines the power state table for a design.
  • Features to look for with in a Place and Route tool for low power design

About the Presenter

Presenter Image Tony Newbold

Tony Newbold Joined Mentor in May 2009. Previously he worked for Synopsys and Avanti as an application consultant for 9 years where he worked with all the Place and route tools such as Apollo, Astro, PhC and ICC as well as being the European Product Lead for floorplanning products. Before Synospsys/Avanti, Tony spent 3 & a half years working for Atmel doing digital layout.

Who Should Attend

  • IC designers
  • Digital layout designers

Products Covered

This web seminar is part of our Tuesday Tech Talks.
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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