Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Tensilica | Subject: Xenergy
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 27 February 2007
Software takes holistic view of SoC
power drain
Energy estimator helps SoC designers cut processor and local memory energy requirements by up to half by making intelligent design tradeoffs.
To address the growing need to reduce power consumption in embedded systems, Tensilica has released the Xenergy estimator, a unique energy estimator for both Xtensa configurable processor and Diamond Standard processor users By using the Xenergy tool to optimise for energy early in the SoC design cycle, designers can cut processor and local memory energy requirements by up to half by making intelligent design tradeoffs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 1 Apr 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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