From ASICs to SOCs: A Practical Approach

PowerTheater Designer

The PowerTheater Designer product uses Watt Watcher's proven RTL estimation technology to build a detailed, quantitative map of the power in the design. PowerTheater Designer then invokes a suite of patent-pending agents called WattBots that automatically measure the impact of many potential power-saving architectural changes. Each WattBot is designed to identify a specific type of power reduction opportunity. The suite of WattBots covers all major types of circuitry in the design, including control, datapath, I/O, memory, and clocks. For each opportunity identified, PowerTheater Designer proposes specific RTL design modifications and quantifies the power savings that would result, together with certain potential trade-offs, ...