Azuro's PowerCentric Demonstrates Over 20% Power Reduction for Ikanos Communications
SANTA CLARA, CA – February 27, 2008 Azuro, Inc. the provider of advanced clock implementation tools for nanometer chip design, today announced that Ikanos Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: IKAN), a leading developer and provider of Fiber Fast™ broadband solutions, has augmented their existing low power design methodology with Azuro’s PowerCentric™ clock tree synthesis (CTS) and optimization solution. Ikanos adopted PowerCentric after an extensive evaluation. PowerCentric reduced the clock power by greater than 20 percent.
Ikanos’ multi-mode VDSL2/ADSLx and network processor solutions power access infrastructure and customer premises equipment for many of the world’s leading network equipment manufacturers, enabling fast and cost-effective carrier rollouts of interactive broadband services. “Our customers’ power requirements push the limits of cooling and power supply, so reducing power consumption is a critical issue for these applications,” said Ravi Selvaraj, vice president of product development, Ikanos. “We adopted PowerCentric in order to maintain our leadership in delivering low power solutions to our customers.”
Azuro's PowerCentric is a complete multi-objective CTS capability managing power, routability and variability in a single step in the design flow. PowerCentric completely replaces traditional clock-tree synthesis (CTS) solutions by unifying clock gate synthesis and clock tree buffering into a physically aware optimization engine. The latest version of PowerCentric supports advanced variability-aware design flows at 65nm and below.
“Azuro is focused on the importance of the clock tree to manage key performance trade-offs in the backend of the design flow,” said Paul Cunningham, co-founder and chief executive officer, Azuro. “Lower power is just one of many benefits PowerCentric delivers, and we feel confident Azuro can help Ikanos continue to deliver leading edge products that offer superior performance and features.”
About Ikanos Communications, Inc.
Ikanos Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: IKAN) develops chipsets that enable carriers to offer Fiber Fast™ bandwidth and Gigabit network processing for enhanced triple play services. Ikanos’ multi-mode VDSL2/ADSLx and network processor solutions power access infrastructure and customer premises equipment for many of the world’s leading network equipment manufacturers. Ikanos’ solutions enable fast and cost-effective carrier rollouts of interactive broadband services, including IPTV. For more information, visit www.ikanos.com.
About Azuro
Azuro, Inc. is a provider of advanced clock implementation tools for nanometer chip design. Azuro’s unique technology delivers significant power, speed and time-to-market benefits and is being used by leading semiconductor companies around the globe to design cellular modem chips, multimedia chips, network switches, graphics chips, Bluetooth and WiFi chips, embedded processors, PC chipsets, and many other mobile and line powered devices. Founded in 2002, the privately held company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with R&D offices in Cambridge, UK. For further information, visit www.azuro.com or call (408) 970-8200.
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Contacts
Cayenne Communication – Linda Marchant, (919) 451-0776, linda.marchant@cayennecom.com