Product category: Power Supply ICs and Controllers
News Release from: National Semiconductor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 November 2003
Artisan joins in with PowerWise
initiative
Artisan Components has joined the PowerWise initiative to increase the energy efficiency of mobile devices.
Artisan Components has joined the PowerWise initiative to increase the energy efficiency of mobile devices Artisan libraries will be used as a reference platform for National's PowerWise technology and the ARM Intelligent Energy Manager technology
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 Jan 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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As part of the collaboration on the PowerWise technology, Artisan plans to make voltage level shifters available for selected standard cell libraries in order to support designs with multiple voltage domains.
Artisan also plans to provide scalable polynomial delay modelling (SPDM) that offers accurate timing representation with variable supply voltage.
"Working with National and ARM allows our libraries to enable a unified power management approach for SoC low-power design", said Neal Carney, Vice-President of Marketing at Artisan.
"We are pleased to collaborate with these industry leaders to provide an innovative solution to increase the energy efficiency of mobile devices".
"PowerWise technology is enabling SoC designers to greatly extend the battery life of portable devices", said Peter Henry, Vice President of Portable Power Systems, National Semiconductor.
"The availability of Artisan's libraries enables seamless implementation of PowerWise technology in mainstream product designs".
"National Semiconductor, Artisan and ARM are working on several joint projects to facilitate widespread adoption of advanced energy management technologies throughout the ARM Partnership", said Mike Muller, ARM CTO.
"ARM aims to achieve widespread adoption of Intelligent Energy Manager technology as part of a continuing commitment to low power in the ARM product roadmap.
Artisan plays an important role in enabling the implementation of the technology in silicon".
Reducing the power consumption of digital processors is critical to the success of next-generation mobile phones.
Recognising this, National Semiconductor and ARM announced a strategic business relationship to jointly develop and market energy-efficient technologies to increase battery life of portable electronic devices.
The companies are also working with EDA tool companies such as Synopsys on the reference design flow and design tool support for implementing the PowerWise technology as part of a complete solution controlled by the ARM Intelligent Energy Manager technology.
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