Moirans-Grenoble, France – May 26, 2010 – Docea Power, the design-for-low-power company that delivers software solutions for power and thermal analysis at the architectural level, today announced a new version of its system-level power and thermal modeling platform:Aceplorer 2.0. The new version adds project management capabilities to boost productivity and a link to virtual platforms to assess the impact of complex scenarios and embedded software on a system’s power consumption. At the 47th Design Automation Conference (DAC) next month, Docea will preview AcePowerModeler, a power model generator tool that closes the loop between implementation and architectural modeling by automating the creation of power models from lower level simulation and characterization data.
Two main challenges face system architects for power simulation at a high abstraction level:
- How to describe the activity and capture a realistic scenario for the architecture and
- Where to get power models to describe the architecture.
Aceplorer 2.0 answers the first challenge by linking to virtual platforms to allow the import of traces describing the activity in standard VCD (Value Change Dump) format. With new platforms and systems-on-chip embedding more and more functions and software, the complexity of use cases and use scenarios is exploding. With this link, architects can continue to optimize the performance of their designs on their current flow, and have the possibility to measure the impact of complex scenarios and embedded software on the power consumption of their design’s architecture. Since the VCD output format is a standard, Aceplorer can now be used in combination with any performance analysis flow.
As for the second challenge, Ghislain Kaiser, CEO, Docea Power, noted, “In most design projects, around 80% of the blocks are reused with some variation from previous designs. Within these legacy designs, there is a tremendous amount of data from power simulations at the gate level or from netlists and from measurements. It can take hours of simulations and testbench setups to extract this data, and now with Aceplorer 2.0 it can be exploited by system architects.”
AcePowerModeler automates the generation of power models from power figures and tables extracted from low level descriptions and from measurements. These models can be re-used by architects at a higher abstraction level for much faster simulations allowing architectural exploration and optimization with no loss of accuracy.
Price and Availability
Aceplorer 2.0 is available now. For pricing information, please contact Docea at sales@doceapower.com.
AcePowerModeler is available now for select customers, and will be released in Q4. It can be used with Aceplorer or stand alone.
More about Aceplorer
Aceplorer allows architects and design managers to explore choices early in the design cycle, where decisions have the highest impact on power consumption and thermal behavior, and hence time to market and cost. Aceplorer uses a consistent power data management methodology for capturing the architecture’s behavior, and is used by system engineers, architects and software and hardware developers for high level implementation specification of chips, packages and boards for wireless, automotive, networking, multimedia, medical and military systems applications.
About Docea Power
Docea Power develops and commercializes a new generation of methodology and tools for enabling faster and more reliable power and thermal modeling at System Level. Docea Power’s Aceplorer platform offers a consistent approach for executing architecture exploration and optimizing power and thermal behavior of electronic systems at an early stage of the project. For more information: www.doceapower.com
Docea Power at 47th DAC
Docea is demonstrating Aceplorer 2.0 and AcePowerModeler at the 47th Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Anaheim, CA the week of June 14, 2010 at booth #1458. To schedule a meeting at DAC, please email ridha.hamza@doceapower.com.
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.