Teklatech offers design services to companies signing off at netlist level. We offer extensive dynamic power analysis to improve design transparency, help guide initial floorplan and power pad placement, identify high potential clock gating points, and in general avoid costly iterations between frontend and backend. With scaling technologies we see an increasing concern from frontend design managers that the backend will run smoothly so as to meet design specs and design schedules. Usually detailed dynamic power analysis is out of grasp for frontend designers because it is hard to justify maintaining software licenses and knowhow for such tool flows inhouse. However this information is of high value at as early a design stage as possible, in particular in power and noise sensitive designs.
Teklatech professional AE services offers consultancy-based ASIC design power analysis at a minimal in-house resource allocation. The service is provided by Teklatech’s application engineer equipped with a tool box of proprietary tools. Our clients benefit from this service by getting early access to dynamic power related design information which can be used to prevent costly design iteration, help guide the floorplanning effort and also gain insight into system-level power dependencies: our analysis methods make it possible to track power dependencies through the system. Thus not only block-by-block dynamic power signatures are revealed, but initiating points of critical power usage chains are also uncovered, that can help identify high potential clock gating points and thus reduce power. A comprehensive report is delivered at the completion of a such a project, consisting of dynamic power issues diagnosis; both block- and chip-level.
