
Low-power design techniques have been around for quite a while and have until recently been looked upon as a set of nice optimizations to have, not a tape-out requirement in many application domains. The rapid growth of the consumer market for handheld devices and growing awareness about environmental impact from power usage has changed this. [...]
ESL tools have for a long time had a bad reputation as promising the moon and delivering next to nothing. While there are still tools out there which don’t deliver value to the designer, I’m happy to say ESL tools have evolved and this segment of the EDA space is maturing. Tools like our own [...]