Palladium Dynamic Power Analysis

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.

Cadence Joules™ RTL Power Solution can be used directly within Palladium DPA for time-based power calculations. With this integration, you gain enhanced production-correlated peak power analysis. You can analyze the power draw of complex hardware-software system-level operations early in your development cycle, so you can explore architecture trade-offs between power and performance. The combined solution assesses toggle counts and accurate peak power calculations while performing simulations in milliseconds vs. the days or months that software simulation would require.

Key Features

• Detailed analysis helps you identify where analysis is needed
• Enables relative compare of IP at the RTL/gate-level phase to identify architectural issues and offer hardware/software trade-offs
• Reduces packaging cost and helps to avoid costly respins
• Supports the Common Power Format (CPF) and IEEE 1801 power formats