Don’t stay Static, be Dynamic!

As a Power Integrity Experts company, we are very often called to investigate some production chip failures. Most of the time it is due to few obvious design weaknesses easily identified within RedHawk. The trouble is, those weaknesses are not detectable with a static voltage drop analysis - just between us, if a so called [...]
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Unlock the Low-Power Design Puzzle with Algorithmic Synthesis

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. [...]
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Mobility chips, I/O circuits, SiP designs and getting ready for DAC.

Hope everyone had a great July 4th weekend. We are now three weeks away from DAC and before we know it we will be at Moscone Center. As we get ready for the conference, I wanted to share some information. We are fortunate to have three key customers present in our booth. Harpreet Anand from Broadcom’s [...]
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What’s that Noise?

  It is always good to start a story from the very beginning. At Apache, we are all about identifying and fixing “dynamic” voltage drop issues, and not only on the chip but also in package and board. However, before talking about Dynamic Voltage Drop it is important to understand its origins: the switching noise.     As a matter [...]
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Musings from a recent trip…

Last week I was visiting our customers in various locations in Israel. In many ways this trip was important. We had just announced Totem™, our full-chip transistor level power noise and reliability analysis solution which many of our users in Israel have been using for some time. We were seeing increased acceptance of our co-design [...]
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Power-Aware Debugging - the Languages

We have been working on the power-aware related projects for a while and there are some interesting experiences and thoughts that we would like to share in several blog posts. Hope you will enjoy it and please feel free to give us feedback. As we all know, low-power has become a more, if not [...]
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Bonjour Everyone!

Bienvenue to my blog. This place will deal with Noise: sources and consequences in your SoC. That’s a wide topic, so stay tuned for next postings!
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Hello everyone!

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog! I will use this space to share my experiences working here at Apache in bringing technologies that help our customers make their designs more likely to succeed the first time around and at the lowest unit cost looking at chip design holistically considering the package it goes in [...]
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What’s new in Low Power?

Everything you need to know about Low Power can be found in this blog...
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