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November 27, 2019

Managing code coverage to achieve verification closure in low-power SoCs

A look at some of the key techniques needed to ensue good code coverage during the verification of low-power SoC designs.
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October 16, 2019
Tom Anderson is a technical marketing consultant working with multiple EDA vendors, including AMIQ EDA. His previous roles have included vice president of marketing at Breker Verification Systems, vice president of applications engineering at 0-In Design Automation, vice president of engineering at IP pioneer Virtual Chips, group director of product management at Cadence, and director of technical marketing at Synopsys. He holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Achieving the interactive development of low-power designs

Power intent files have increased efficiency and the use of an IDE can prevent them becoming outdated as a design evolves.
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February 6, 2019

Low-power debugging made easy

UPF provides a useful way to describe the power-management strategies that should be applied to a design, but using it introduces a number of challenges during low-power debugging.
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December 3, 2018
Rahul Chirania is a staff applications engineer with the static verification team at Synopsys.

Verifying clock domain crossings in UPF-based low-power SoCs

The verification challenges of using low-power design techniques to enable advanced power-management strategies in complex SoCs.
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October 8, 2015
Amol Herlekar, Synopsys

Preparing for low-power verification success: setting objectives and measuring outcomes

A look at what it takes to verify low-power SoC designs, including setting objectives and measuring outcomes in a UPF-driven verification strategy
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August 5, 2015
Power switch

‘Even the software guys are starting to talk in milliwatts’

System-level power is the next frontier for a power-intent standard – or rather a collection of them – being developed by a partnership between Accellera, Si2 and the IEEE.
September 17, 2013

Managing power intent, signal isolation and level shifting in a UPF-based multi-voltage IC design

Power intent, signal isolation and level shifting can all be controlled in a UPF-based multi-voltage IC design through careful coding.
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September 3, 2013

Choosing a block representation in a UPF-based hierarchical multi-voltage IC design

This article looks at the way in which various representations of a block of a design have different implications in a UPF based power-aware hierarchical design flow.
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September 1, 2009

Extending UPF for incremental growth

Erich Marschner Accellera’s Unified Power Format (UPF) is in production use today, delivering the low-power system-on-chip (SoC) designs that are so much in demand. Building upon that success, IEEE Std 1801-2009 [UPF] offers additional features that address the challenges of low-power design and verification. These include more abstract specifications for power supplies, power states, and […]

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December 1, 2007

UPF delivers on power

Long before the first portable computer batteries exploded, and even before anyone had the first visions of building massive data centers in the cold northwestern states of Oregon,Washington and Alaska, power consumption by electronic devices was a tough problem for chip designers. The difference now is that we are trying to manage power in ever-smaller […]

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