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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Control Leakage In Active Mode

Control of subthreshold leakage in standby mode is best accomplished with power-shutoff switches. But what can be done when the chip is fully awake and active?

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Stanch The Bleeding Of Leakage Power At 65nm

Even as leakage overwhelms their power budgets, IC design teams are finding ways to plug the holes that are costing them dearly at sub-micron nodes.

As 90-nm process technologies began entering the mainstream a few years ago, it became clear that device delays were no longer the chief culprit. Interconnect delays had caught and passed them, becoming the number-one contributor to timing woes.

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Monday, November 5, 2007

Blaze DFM Lithography-Aware Design Optimization Demo Now Available

Exclusive Preview of New Blaze MO Capabilities Available at Demos on Demand

Blaze DFM, the electrical DFM company, has created an online demonstration previewing new lithography-aware capabilities that will become available in the next release of the Blaze MO leakage power optimization software.

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