| Overview In this workshop, you will perform high-level design steps   necessary to synthesize, analyze, and verify a multi-voltage design with   shutdown requirements using the IEEE 1801 UPF-based Synopsys Eclypse Low-Power   Flow. You will: Identify the library requirements to implement a MV low-power   design  Create, modify, interpret, and apply power-intent (UPF) files  Correctly specify PVT requirements for MV low-power   optimizations  Perform low-power RTL synthesis using top-down and hierarchical   UPF methodologies  Generate a gate level design that is MV-clean  Insert power-domain aware scan chains  Check for logic equivalence of RTL and gate-level designs  Conduct static timing analysis on the pre-layout design  Analyze average and peak power consumptions  Verify the results of running MV rule checks on the gate-level   design  ? Objectives  At the end of this workshop, using the Front-End Synopsys   Eclypse Low-Power Flow, you should be able to perform the following high-level   design objectives:  Create, interpret, and apply UPF files that capture the stated   power intent requirements  Synthesize designs for the power intent and power-optimization   requirements using both top-down and hierarchical UPF methodologies  Describe the effect of performing a supply-net-aware always-on   synthesis  Insert scan chains taking into account the existing power   domains while minimizing switching activity  Ensure that the gate-level design is MV clean  Ensure equivalence checking of logic functionality between RTL   and gate- level using the design and UPF files  Perform static timing analysis  Generate peak and average power analysis reports/waveforms  Analyze gate-level design for MV rule violations  Write out all needed files for physical implementation  Audience Profile Logic design and/or verification engineers who have a need to   implement, analyze, and verify designs requiring the lowest possible power   consumption using the Synopsys Front-End Eclypse Low Power Flow. CAD Engineers   and Managers responsible for Low Power flow will also find this workshop   beneficial.  ? Prerequisites To benefit the most from the material presented in this   workshop, students need: ? A basic working knowledge of Synopsys Design Compiler and   PrimeTime tools. Working knowledge of the other Synopsys tools used (list at the   end of course description) in the workshop is desirable, but not required, to   complete this workshop  An awareness of the basics of low-power design techniques. This   workshop teaches how to implement these techniques  Course Outline  ? ?  1. Introduction to Low Power Solution  Specifying Power Intent: UPF (Lab)  RTL Synthesis (Lab)  Hierarchical UPF Flow and DFT (Lab)  2. Lab-4: Hierarchical UPF Flow and DFT (Lab Contd.)  Logic Equivalence Checking (Lab)  Static Timing and Power Analysis (Lab)  Multi Voltage Rule Checking (Lab)?    |