SiS Joins Power Forward Initiative to Assist in Delivering Power-Efficient Computing Platforms
March 10 2009 - 4:00AM
Marketwired
Chipset design company SiS said today that it has joined the Power
Forward Initiative (PFI) and plans to offer a Common Power Format
(CPF)-based design solution for its chipset, motherboard, reference
design and systems customers.
SiS uses the Cadence� Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS)
Low-Power Solution, the industry's leading and complete flow that
integrates logic design, verification, and implementation
technologies with the widely deployed Common Power Format. Using
this comprehensive approach to low-power design, teams can improve
productivity, reduce risk, and achieve superior tradeoff among
timing, power, and area requirements.
"As a chipset designer, SiS continuously dedicates itself to
using innovative computing technologies to provide more efficiency
and convenience to users of electronic systems," said Nelson Lee,
Marketing Director at SiS. "Our participation in the Power Forward
Initiative will help us to serve our customers in need of more
power-efficient computing platforms."
"Through its participation in the Power Forward Initiative, SiS
hopes to accelerate its customers' migration to more
power-efficient design methodologies," said Pankaj Mayor, group
director of Business Enablement at Cadence. "We welcome SiS to the
Power Forward Initiative where they can work with industry leaders
to deliver high-quality, low-power solutions to customers."
About Power Forward Initiative
The Power Forward Initiative, which has more than 30 member
companies, is an industry initiative sponsored by Cadence Design
Systems which has the goal of enabling the design and production of
more power-efficient electronic devices. The initiative includes
companies representing a broad cross section of the design chain
including system, semiconductor, foundry, IP, EDA, ASIC and design
services companies. CPF was contributed by Cadence to the Si2 Low
Power Coalition in December 2006; CPF is now the most
widely-deployed low-power intent standard in the industry and
available from Si2. The Initiative has also published "A Practical
Guide to Low-Power Design - User experience with CPF" which is
aimed at educating the broad design marketplace in utilizing
advanced low-power design techniques. The Guide is available free
of charge at www.powerforward.org.
About Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (SiS)
Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS), founded in 1987, is a
worldwide leader in the development of leading-edge core logic
chipsets. Over the last 20 years, its products have been widely
used in various applications such as Desktop PCs, notebook PCs,
Embedded Systems, Wireless Communications, Servers, and Digital
Entertainment Devices. For more information about SiS, pls click
www.sis.com
For more information, please contact: Nelson Lee Silicon
Integrated Systems Corp. 886-2-8913-1168 nelson@sis.com Dan Holden
Power Forward Initiative 1-408-944-7457 holden@cadence.com
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