Cadence® Palladium® Dynamic Power Analysis (DPA) uniquely enables engineers using emulation to also analyze software in a system-level environment. The solution’s ability to run various design or implementation scenarios--and determine their impact on power dissipation under a realistic application environment--is vital to striking a balance between power budget and expected performance. Additionally, the solution delivers power calculation by capturing the necessary power activities in a common DPA power database. This capability further enables the sharing of verification resources while DPA is computing the power profile offline.

Features/Benefits

• Supports both RTL and gate-level power estimation
• Enables high-performance system-level power estimation to identify peaks and calculate averages on long runs
• Realistic in-circuit emulation environment allows users to estimate power under real operating conditions
• Detailed analysis helps users identify where analysis is needed
• Enables relative compare of IP at the RTL phase to identify architectural issues and offer HW/SW trade-offs
• Reduces packaging cost and helps to avoid costly respins
• Supports the Common Power Format (CPF)