TITEL

Power Efficient Design Challenges and Trends

SPREKER

Nigel Elliot, Group leader front-end and verification application team, Mentor Graphics

ABSTRACT

Entering the second decade of the millennium, low power is one of the few over-arching drivers electronic designers must continually address. Why is the market demanding more energy efficient products? Will advances in process technology magically rescue designers? Typically, the techniques used to improve the power characteristics of a design involve additional complexity on top of an already complex design and verification process. This presentation will explore the forces from technology and market perspectives that are driving designers towards better energy efficient designs. It will also discuss where to gain from going through the additional pain and what methods will achieve greater productivity.

BIOGRAFIE

Nigel Elliot is a group leader in Mentor's front-end and verification application team working across Europe. He has worked for Mentor for 16 years in a number of roles, all applying Mentor's leading edge verification technology at companies in Europe. Most recently he has helped companies adopt advanced functional verification techniques and methodologies, including Systemverilog, OVM and deploying UPF for low power verification.