( ESNUG 307 Item 10 ) -------------------------------------------- [12/16/98]
Subject: ( ESNUG 305 #13 306 #8 ) Other Tools To Estimate Power Consumption
> Sente (www.senteinc.com) develops tools which do accurate VLSI power
> estimation and analysis, at both RTL and gate levels, both module-level
> and full chip, both average and peak power.
>
> Simplex (www.simplex.com) also provides transistor-level power analysis
> tools in the same class as PowerMill.
>
> - Eric Filseth
> Sente
From: William Ruby <wruby@Synopsys.COM>
John,
Synopsys certainly offers other power analysis tools besides PowerMill:
PowerGate: Gate-level power analysis with time-based reports and waveform
display (accurate to a single switching event)
Design Power: power estimation early in the design process, using a
quick-mapped (Verilog or VHDL) RTL gate-level netlist and
RTL simulation activity to enable fast trade-off analysis
& identification of power problems.
PowerArc: a library power characterization tool to make db libs for these
Synopsys power analysis tools. (Although most foundries
simply give customers power characterized Synopsys db libs,
there are some customers who make their own ASIC libs who
would want a tool like PowerArc.)
Simplex's Thunder&Lightning calculates IR drop and does electromigration
analysis -- thus it is more like EPIC's RailMill, not PowerMill. (In
closing, I'd like to proudly wear my Marketting Hat and brag that PowerMill
has extensive power diagnostics -- excessive short-circuit current,
excessive leakage, DC paths, rise/fall time violations, circuit topology
checks, etc. -- Simplex's Thunder&Lightning has none of this.)
- William M. Ruby
Synopsys EPIC Technology Group Mountain View, CA
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