Signoff on power used to be a fairly simple check-the-box kind of activity. Even if power budgets weren’t exactly met, they could usually be fixed in future iterations of a chip, whether that involved derivatives or new revs of the same chip.
A number of things have changed since the much simpler days of 45/40nm and above, however.
Power is now a market differentiator. In many cases, i...
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