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Cynthesizer provides a fully-integrated top-down design flow to help you
achieve optimum power consumption for your design. You can fully explore
micro-architectures resulting from the optimization of power, area, and
performance.
By using Cynthesizer during the system design phase, you can rapidly
explore different subsystem configurations, the type and amount of memory,
as well choices of implementation in hardware vs. software. By implementing
functions in hardware instead of software, Cynthesizer has delivered as
much as 12X power savings on production SoCs.
You can create and analyze multiple candidate RTL implementations with
different area, performance, and power characteristics by directing
Cynthesizer to meet certain design constraints. Each implementation is
fully created and verified in minutes instead of weeks.
By measuring power earlier in the design process and reporting power
estimates along with area and timing, Cynthesizer enables you to optimize
the cost, performance, and power to fit the needs of your application.
Cynthesizer automatically measures power consumption at the
register-transfer and gate level through its integration with
industry-leading power estimation tools. Block-level estimates are used in
the context of the top-level SoC to decide which hardware alternatives
result in the best power profile.
As you progress in the design process, you can analyze power at the gate
level and pick the right low-power implementation for your target
application and process technology. As a result, you can reduce downstream
iterations and the turnaround time needed to meet your design objectives.
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