BANGALORE, INDIA: Power Forward Initiative (PFI) today announced that Wipro Technologies has recently joined the initiative and is offering Common Power Format (CPF)-enabled low-power design capabilities to its design services customers worldwide. The PFI membership has now grown to over 30 companies around the world, representing a broad spectrum of semiconductor, IP, EDA, ASIC, design services and manufacturing providers.

Wipro has adopted the Cadence Design Systems Inc. Low-Power Solution, which integrates leading-edge design, verification, and implementation technology with the widely deployed CPF standard to deliver an end-to-end low-power design solution to IC engineers. By preserving low-power design intent throughout the design process, the solution eliminates laborious manual work, reduces power-related chip failure, and provides power predictability early in the design process, enabling sharing and reuse of low-power intelligence throughout the design process.

Wipro is the largest independent provider of R&D services in the world. Using "Extended Engineering" model for leveraging R&D investment and accessing new knowledge and experience across the globe, people and technical infrastructure, Wipro enables firms to introduce new products rapidly. Using the Cadence Low-Power Solution will enable Wipro's delivery of more power efficient chip designs.

"Reducing the energy footprint of electronic products has become an important consideration for ICs and subsystems targeting a wide range of both handheld and wired products," said Ron Burns, General Manager Semiconductor & System Solutions, Wipro Technologies. 

"Cadence's commitment to driving industry-wide solutions in low power design are in direct alignment with Wipro's own low power design Green initiatives. We are pleased to join Cadence and other industry leaders in this important effort."

"The demand for low power design is growing rapidly in all geographies 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, Wipro is affirming their commitment to collaborate with the industry to support customers' mandates to reduce energy consumption."