Common Power Format-enabled Low-Power Design Solutions to Enable Power-Efficient Electronics
San Jose CA, 17 Nov 2008
Power Forward Initiative
(PFI) today announced that LSI (NYSE: LSI) has joined the initiative in
order to collaborate with other industry leaders to advance the
state-of-the-art in low-power design. PFI membership has grown to more
than 35 companies from around the world who represent a broad spectrum
of semiconductor, IP, EDA, ASIC, design services and manufacturing
providers.
"The energy footprint of storage and networking
IC's must be reduced," said Ameesh Desai, senior director of design
tools and methodology, LSI Corporation. "PFI's goal, which is to
accelerate the delivery of low power IC's to the market, is in
alignment with LSI Green initiatives. We look forward to contributing
to this important effort."
LSI offers a unique perspective on
many of the low-power issues being addressed by the PFI. Working
collaboratively with Cadence and other PFI members, LSI plans to
accelerate delivery of low-power solutions to the market that leverages
the Common Power Format (CPF).
"The demand for power-efficient
design is growing rapidly for wired applications driven by business and
environmental considerations," said Pankaj Mayor, group director of
Business Enablement at Cadence Design Systems, Inc. "By joining the
Power Forward Initiative, LSI is affirming their commitment to
collaborate with the industry to support customers' requirements to
reduce energy consumption. We welcome their participation and applaud
their leadership."
About LSILSI
Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of innovative silicon,
systems and software technologies that enable products which seamlessly
bring people, information and digital content together. The company
offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and services including custom
and standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software that are
trusted by the world’s best known brands to power leading solutions in
the Storage and Networking markets. More information is available at
www.lsi.com.
About Power Forward InitiativeThe
Power Forward Initiative, which has more than 35 member companies, is
an industry initiative sponsored by Cadence Design Systems (NASDAQ:
CDNS) and has the goal of enabling the design and production of more
power-efficient electronic devices. The initiative includes companies
representing a broad cross section of the design chain including
system, semiconductor, foundry, IP, EDA, ASIC and design services
companies. The Common Power Format (CPF) was contributed by Cadence to
the Si2 Low Power Coalition in December 2006; CPF is now the most
widely deployed low-power intent standard in the industry and available
from Si2. The Initiative has also published A Practical Guide to
Low-Power Design – User experience with CPF which is aimed at educating
the broad design marketplace in utilizing advanced low-power design
techniques. The Guide is available free of charge at
www.powerforward.org.
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Posted
11-17-2008 3:18 PM
by
jprice