Overview
In this class, you will learn to extend PrimeTime's signoff static timing analysis capability to accurately analyze peak power, average power, clock network power and multi-voltage power.

A job aid will guide you through the setup requirements and command flow required to perform appropriate types of power analysis (average power vs. peak power; instantaneous peak power vs. cycle-accurate peak power.)

Skills taught in this workshop include:

• Determining what power analysis method is possible, based on the available data and the application needs
• Applying a methodology to confirm that the power analysis performed was complete and correct
• Applying debugging technique(s) if necessary

PrimeTime PX functionality you will explore includes:

• Generating and interpreting the standard PrimeTime PX reports for switching activity, peak power, average power, clock network power and multi-voltage power analyses
• Generating and viewing peak-power waveforms

To analyze power on multi-voltage designs, you will be using a flow based on the unified power format (IEEE P1804 UPF).

• Read the required timing and power data; verify their completeness
• Perform peak, average power analysis in the GUI and shell interface
• Generate VCD and SAIF switching activity files by simulating RTL and gate-level designs
• Distinguish between event-based vs. cycle-accurate peak power (CAPP) analysis
• Dump and view peak power waveforms
• Determine quality of analyses from switching activity and power reports
• Estimate pre-layout clock-tree power
• Annotate clock-network power
• Determine power savings due to clock gating
• Specify PVT corner and libraries for multi -voltage power analysis
• Interpret UPF power intent of a multi voltage design
• Perform UPF-flow-based multi voltage power analysis

Audience Profile
Design or Verification engineers who need to choose an appropriate analysis technique and perform signoff power and multi-voltage design analyses using PrimeTime PX.

Prerequisites
To benefit the most from the material presented in this workshop, you should: Have taken PrimeTime1 workshop.
OR
Possess equivalent knowledge with PrimeTime including:

• Restoring a previously saved design
• Reading and linking a design
• Applying timing constraints
• Generating and interpreting timing reports using the report_timing command

• Introduction to Power Analysis
• Average Power Analysis
• Peak Power Analysis
• Clock Network Power Analysis
• Multivoltage Power Analysis

• PrimeTime 2009.06-SP2
• nWave 2009.06-SP2
• VCS 2009.06