French EDA firms team on power-aware platform

PARIS — Ten days before the grand opening of the 47th DAC in Anaheim, Calif., Docea Power SAS (Moirans, France) and Paris-based Magillem SA said they are working on a power-aware platform description based on IEEE 1685IP-XACT.

Partners outlined their customers' need to exchange power-related data and information in their platforms description and documentation. Standards are emerging like UPF, CPF for tools, but an alignment is needed on the IP documentation side.

Magillem and Docea said they plan to develop a solution to exchange power-related information using the open IEEE 1685 IP-XACT format and expect to donate their collaboration results to the standardization body.

“This partnership is a great opportunity to deliver the first integrated solution for managing power data through well-known standard and secure specifications for complex system design development," commented Ghislain Kaiser, CEO of Docea Power. "The collaboration with Magillem, the leading provider of IEEE 1685 (IP-XACT), will bring to our respective customers real productivity gains and the best in-class solution."

Magillem and Docea said they will give demonstrations at DAC on June 14 and June 15.

In a separate announcement, Docea said it will demonstrate its latest products, Aceplorer 2.0 and AcePowerModeler, at this year's DAC.

Aceplorer 2.0, Docea claimed, adds project management capabilities to boost productivity and a link to virtual platforms to assess the impact of complex scenarios and embedded software on a system’s power consumption.

The company will also preview AcePowerModeler, a power model generator tool that closes the loop between implementation and architectural modeling by automating the creation of power models from lower level simulation and characterization data.

The startup said AcePowerModeler has already been put out for evaluation with a select set of customers and is expected to be released in the fourth quarter of 2010.