Technical papers

Authors: Hai Yu & Clément Moulin The audio market for wireless Bluetooth headsets is growing rapidly. Audio devices using Bluetooth (BT) connectivity are more ubiquitous than ever. People have gotten used to wireless audio systems, and the mobile phone industry is pushing towards a world without audio connectors and cables. The latest trend in wireless …

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With the advent of Edge AI applications which often embed multiple cores and accelerators, it is now mandatory to have an advanced management of the power optimization during PnR flow. Dolphin Design has a long mastery in power management and in edge processing IPs. This presentation, made by François Jaquet, senior physical engineer, illustrates how …

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The emergence of smart cities, smart homes and smart buildings, enabled by billions of battery-operated IoT devices connected to data centers, will force IC design teams to pursue tough power objectives: zero power consumption in stand-by mode with maximum performance in operation mode at optimized energy efficiency. Energy efficiency is the key metric which demonstrates …

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In the latest advanced nodes, getting a quick loading time for large analog circuits becomes a decisive stake. This paper explains how the latest SMASH™ revision allows to reach it. SMASH™ is a seamless IC-PCB mixed-signal simulator enabling the development and verification of analog and mixed-signal Silicon IPs and Integrated Circuits (IC) as well as …

Improving loading time on advanced nodes with SMASH™ mixed-signal simulator
B. Dumas, C. Valla, F. Espalieu Read More »

Allowing battery-powered devices to run, without battery recharge, for years rather than months, partakes in enhancing significantly end-user satisfaction and is a key point to enabling the emergence of IoT applications. Numerous applications, such as M2M, BLE, Zigbee…, have an activity rate (duty cycle) such that the power consumption in sleep mode dominates the overall …

Improving battery-powered device operation time thanks to power efficient sleep mode
S. Genevey, C. Dominguez Read More »

Standard-cell library offering is usually divided in three categories: 6/7-track library for cost driven requirements, 8/9-track library for mainstream requirements and 10/12-track library for high-speed requirements. Standard cell Libraries often includes Multi Vt / Multi-channel-length cells to provide further flexibility to achieve the best PPA trade-offs. However, the advent of battery-operated devices, which spend most …

Standard cell libraries for Always-On Domain
D. Maurer Read More »

optimize your AoN domain to reach low-power The specificity of numerous battery-powered applications (such as Wearables, IoT, Wireless communication…) is to spend most of their time in a sleep mode (> 99%). In many cases, the analysis of the energy consumed at the battery level in each power mode shows that the power consumption in …

How to succeed a true low-power Always-On Domain?
FLIPPERS: News on standards for Systems-on-Chip Read More »