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Thinking Differently About Power
By Ed Sperling - 12 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Battery life and lower electricity bills are now marketing tools for makers of SoCs, the mobile devices they go into, and servers that power data centers. A smart phone battery that lasts through the day without a charge, even when the user is playing high-action games, is a lot more attractive than one lasting only a few hours. And a data center electricity bill that shows a sh... » read more

Experts At The Table: Making Software More Energy-Efficient
By Ed Sperling - 12 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Low-Power Engineering sat down to discuss software and power with Adam Kaiser, Nucleus RTOS architect at Mentor Graphics; Pete Hardee, marketing director at Cadence; Chris Rowen, CTO of Tensilica; Vic Kulkarni, senior vice president and general manager of Apache Design, and Bill Neifert, CTO of Carbon Design Systems. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. LPE: Softw... » read more

Making Software Better
By Ed Sperling - 11 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

Low-Power Engineering talks about what will make software more energy-efficient with Pete Hardee, marketing director at Cadence; Adam Kaiser, Nucleus RTOS architect at Mentor Graphics; Chris Rowen, CTO of Tensilica; Vic Kulkarni, senior VP and General Manager of Apache Design, and Bill Neifert, CTO of Carbon Design. [youtube vid=Jxquj8K8_BA] » read more

Energy Vs. Power: Energy, Power Optimization Is A System-Level Challenge
By Ed Sperling - 01 Dec, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Power issues today, whether they are related to low power in a smart phone or highly efficient power for data center applications, are so pervasive that they touch the entire design team—and must be carefully prioritized at the system or architectural level. As discussed in Part 1 of this series, energy and power are different entities and must be understood dist... » read more

Experts At The Table: Managing Power At Higher Levels Of Abstraction
By Ed Sperling - 18 Nov, 2011 - Comments: 0

Low-Power Engineering sat down to discuss the advantages of dealing with power at a high level with Mike Meyer, a Cadence fellow; Grant Martin, chief scientist at Tensilica; Vic Kulkarni, senior vice president and general manager at Apache Design; Shawn McCloud, vice president of marketing at Calypto; and Brett Cline, vice president of marketing at sales at Forte Design Systems. What follows ar... » read more

Experts At The Table: Managing Power At Higher Levels Of Abstraction
By Ed Sperling - 11 Nov, 2011 - Comments: 0

Low-Power Engineering sat down to discuss the advantages of dealing with power at a high level with Mike Meyer, a Cadence fellow; Grant Martin, chief scientist at Tensilica; Vic Kulkarni, senior vice president and general manager at Apache Design; Shawn McCloud, vice president of marketing at Calypto; and Brett Cline, vice president of marketing at sales at Forte Design Systems. What follows ar... » read more

Five Important Changes That Will Affect Power
By Ed Sperling - 03 Nov, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling So far most of the energy savings in SoCs have been achieved using two main approaches—turning off most of the chip most of the time, and changing the materials used to insulate against current leakage. Over the next few years, changes to designs will be more radical, encompass more pieces of a bigger system, and they will be orders of magnitude more effective. From a marke... » read more

Experts At The Table: Managing Power At Higher Levels Of Abstraction
By Ed Sperling - 03 Nov, 2011 - Comments: 0

Low-Power Engineering sat down to discuss the advantages of dealing with power at a high level with Mike Meyer, a Cadence fellow; Grant Martin, chief scientist at Tensilica; Vic Kulkarni, senior vice president and general manager at Apache Design; Shawn McCloud, vice president of marketing at Calypto; and Brett Cline, vice president of marketing at sales at Forte Design Systems. What follows ar... » read more

Using High-Level Synthesis To Manage Power
By Ed Sperling - 02 Nov, 2011 - Comments: 0

Low-Power Engineering talks with Apache Design's Vic Kulkarni, Tensilica's Grant Martin, Cadence's Mike Meyer, Calypto's Shawn McCloud and Forte Design's Brett Cline about the need for a higher level of abstraction to optimize power in ICs. [youtube vid=gpWacAhMYgo] » read more

Redefining Systems Around Power
By Ed Sperling - 06 Oct, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Engineers have been talking about system-level power budgets since Moore’s Law reached 65nm, but as power becomes a critical element of any design with or without a plug the definition of what constitutes a system is changing. While most SoC engineers think of the system as an IC, power increasingly is playing a significant role in the subsystem, and even in the larger syst... » read more

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