Moirans-Grenoble, France – March 8, 2009 – Docea Power, the Electronic System Level (ESL) company that delivers software for early power and thermal analysis, today announced that ST-Ericsson, a world leader in wireless platforms and semiconductors, has adopted and is deploying ACEplorer to improve architectural-level power choices for SoC (System-on-Chip) and platform design.
ST-Ericsson chose Docea Power’s ACEplorer for its ability to quickly create hierarchical power models, deliver precise architectural exploration and establish an effective methodology. ACEplorer models and optimizes power and thermal behavior of whole electronics systems. ACEplorer integrates a consistent power data management methodology for capturing and simulating power behavior. Its “separation of concerns”*(or divide and conquer) approach makes models usable across teams and design flows, from system level to silicon measurements.
ST-Ericsson saw high value in adopting ACEplorer for modeling complex platforms when compared to spreadsheets, especially for their new 3G multimedia platforms
“We are proud that ST-Ericsson adopted ACEplorer tool to tackle power and thermal options for its complex design projects,” said Ghislain Kaiser, co-founder and CEO of Docea Power. “It demonstrates the maturity of our solution for managing efficiently power and thermal issues in demanding sectors like the mobile industry.”
Docea Power is exhibiting at booth #52 at the Design, Automation & Test in Europe conference in Dresden, Germany,March 8 to 12 2010.
Benefits of ACEplorer
Shared, complex power and thermal design options in a consistent flow
ACEplorer allows several design teams to work in parallel and succeed in formalizing a structured power aspect for every architect and designer. ACEplorer’s communications capabilities –such as reports and diagrams – allow design teams to communicate key results to project leaders and managers.
Review of improvements early in the design cycle
In less than a few minutes, ACEplorer can deliver precise simulation results for many scenarios and variants so that system designers and architects can choose with more confidence the best options for Intellectual Property (IP), hardware/software partitioning, cost and power consumption.
More realistic scenarios when compared spreadsheet percentages
ACEplorer goes beyond the aspect of pure power, since it can take into account information about bandwidth, frequency, CPU load and temperature which is becoming critical issue so design teams can easily find the best trade-off to optimize SoC power and architecture.
Productivity with more details
Reviewing options with ACEplorer early in the design cycle can save man-month downstream, and gives the design team more detailed information for making better decisions.
About ST-Ericsson
ST-Ericsson is a world leader in developing and delivering a complete portfolio of innovative mobile platforms and cutting-edge wireless semiconductor solutions across the broad spectrum of mobile technologies. The company is a leading supplier to the top handset manufacturers and ST-Ericsson’s products and technologies enable more than half of all phones in use today. The company generated pro-forma sales of about USD 3.6billion in 2008. ST-Ericsson was established as a 50/50 joint venture by STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) and Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) in February 2009, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
More information about ST-Ericsson is available at www.stericsson.com.
About Docea Power
Docea Power develops and commercializes a new generation of methodologies and solutions 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
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