MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
May 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --
Highlights:
- ZeBu Power Analyzer extends the ZeBu Server 4 emulation system
with novel, multi-threaded power analysis engines supporting RTL
and gate-level flows
- Executes billion-cycle activity profiles on ZeBu Server 4 to
quickly identify power-critical windows
- Delivers accurate average and cycle power analysis results for
multi-million cycle windows within hours compared to months with
simulation-based approaches
- Supports emulation efficiency by reusing emulation results when
analyzing power for different gate-level implementations
- Integrates with Synopsys PrimePower signoff for comprehensive
system-level-to-signoff power analysis
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced its
ZeBu® Power Analyzer solution for software-driven
system-on-chip (SoC) power analysis delivering results 1,000 times
faster than traditional simulation-based methods. ZeBu Power
Analyzer adds novel, multi-threaded power analysis engines to the
industry-leading, high-performance ZeBu Server 4 emulation
platform. It allows SoC design teams to systematically analyze
power usage of their designs when executing billion-cycle, complex
software applications. ZeBu Power Analyzer greatly reduces the risk
of missing critical power issues by enabling use of realistic
software workloads rather than synthetic scenarios. ZeBu Power
Analyzer integrates with the Synopsys PrimePower power signoff
flow, enabling design teams to efficiently and accurately pinpoint
and fix power issues.
"MediaTek is a leading provider of highly efficient SoCs that
provide an optimal mix of power and performance for mobile
devices," said Jerry Wang, Sr.
Director, Computing and Artificial Intelligence Technology Group at
MediaTek. "As we're designing products for the new 5G era, power
and performance requirements have become more stringent and early
power analysis for our designs is more critical. ZeBu Power
Analyzer's software-driven power analysis lets us optimize critical
components, such as GPUs, using realistic software workloads to
achieve results that are a few thousand times faster than
traditional power analysis flows."
ZeBu Power Analyzer helps design teams to analyze power issues
using RTL and gate-level flows in three steps:
- Creates an activity model that runs in ZeBu during emulation to
quickly identify power-critical windows during billion-cycle
software workloads, such as an operating system boot or application
software execution.
- Uses a novel, multi-threaded engine combining waveform
expansion and efficient estimation technologies with better than 95
percent accuracy to analyze power during critical time
windows for early trade-off of different IP
implementations.
- Selects narrow windows of high cycle power for hand-off to
back-end designers to perform accurate average and peak power
signoff using the industry-standard Synopsys PrimePower flow.
"The need for software-driven power analysis with billion-cycle
capacity continues to grow as designers are increasingly challenged
with complex software execution on their next-generation SoCs,"
said Yogesh Goel, vice president of
engineering at Synopsys, "The rapid adoption of our
high-performance ZeBu Power Analyzer by many of our key ZeBu
customers is helping to move power analysis earlier into their
design cycles and reduce the risk of missing power-critical
scenarios."
Availability
ZeBu Power Analyzer is available now.
Additional Resources
For more information on ZeBu Power Analyzer please
visit:
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https://www.synopsys.com/verification/emulation/use-cases-fast-emulation.html
About Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is the Silicon to
Software™ partner for innovative companies developing
the electronic products and software applications we rely on every
day. As the world's 15th largest software company,
Synopsys has a long history of being a global leader in electronic
design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP and is also growing
its leadership in software security and quality solutions. Whether
you're a system-on-chip (SoC) designer creating advanced
semiconductors, or a software developer writing applications that
require the highest security and quality, Synopsys has the
solutions needed to deliver innovative, high-quality, secure
products. Learn more at www.synopsys.com.
Editorial Contact:
James
Watts
Synopsys, Inc.
650-584-1625
jwatts@synopsys.com
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