Global Unichip
adopts Altos’ Liberate™ to strengthen its service on low power applications
Liberate used to re-characterize Low Power
libraries
at lower supply voltages
Global Unichip, which provides design solutions ranging from silicon-proven intellectual property (IPs) to complex system-on-chip designs, is using Liberate to re-characterize 90nm low power standard cell library at a lower supply voltage. The re-characterized library is to be applied to portable applications.
Jim Lai, COO & President at
Global Unichip said, "Global Unichip has been
focusing on the low power design methodology as leakage escalates in the deep
submicron process and the application power requirement has been increasingly
stringent. Other than developing the design methodologies from architecture,
RTL level, we also work with library and EDA vendors to come up with a
comprehensive low power solution from library level. In low power designs,
it is common to use a lower voltage than the standard supply or to have
multiple supply voltages. To avoid interpolation errors,
it is critical that the libraries being used to implement the design are
re-characterized at these voltages."
Lai
continued, "We selected Altos Liberate to perform
characterization because of its speed, ease of use and the excellent
correlation between Liberate’s results and the
Liberty® files provided by our library vendor.”
"Standard cell libraries come characterized to a fixed set of operating
conditions (process, voltage and temperature (PVT)). However designs that operate under different
PVT conditions should be re-characterized to avoid potential chip failures due
to inaccurate analysis." said Jim McCanny, Altos CEO, "Global Unichip was able to leverage Liberate’s
fast performance and ease of use to quickly re-target their library vendor’s 90nm library from 1.2Volts to 1Volt without
requiring a major computer farm or a team of characterization
specialists”.
About
Liberate
Liberate is an
ultra fast library creator that generates electrical models in Liberty® format.
Liberate supports all the latest models for timing, noise and power such as CCS
(Composite Current Source) and ECSM (Effective Current Source Models). Liberate
also supports low power design styles that include power gating cells, state
retention registers and level shifters.
About Global Unichip Corp.
Global Unichip
Corp. (GUC), a dedicated full service SoC (System On Chip) Design Foundry based in
About Altos
Altos Design
Automation provides ultra-fast, fully-automated characterization technology for
the creation of library views for timing, signal integrity and power analysis
and optimization. Altos advanced modeling solutions are used by both
corner-based and statistical-based design implementation flows to reduce time
to market and improve yield.
Privately held, Altos was founded in 2005 in