SANTA CLARA, USA: PowerArtist, the latest in a long line of technically advanced power-reduction tools from Sequence Design, takes center stage at this year's DAC 2008 as the company asks, "What color is your RTL?"
 
"It's a serious question that SoC designers are grappling with," says Sequence President and CEO Vic Kulkarni.  "PowerArtist provides a palette of new RTL power-reduction techniques that lets designers mix, blend and apply just the right touches to create their own masterpiece."

PowerArtist focuses on trimming power in three key areas: clock, memory, and datapath at RTL where designers have maximum opportunities for power reduction. The power savings are over and above those achieved during synthesis.

Next-generation engines examine the RTL code, prioritize power reductions, and either maximize power savings automatically or guide the user through manual edits within a powerful graphical environment, Sequence's new PowerCanvas visualization and debug environment.  The RTL changes preserve the original RTL formatting by only making precise, surgical changes to the code.