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Synopsys PrimePower 2018.06 PrimePower has advantages over Design Power, said William Ruby, director of marketing for mixed-signal and low-power design at Synopsys. One is the tool’s ability to handle designs with potential capacities of up to 10 million instances. Another is PrimePower’s time-based analysis, which lets users view power dissipation as a function of time within a waveform display. PrimePower models pattern-dependent, capacitive switching, short-circuit and static power consumption, considering instance-specific cell-state dependencies, glitches, multiple loads and nonlinear ramp effects. To use PrimePower, an engineer first runs an HDL simulator and generates what Synopsys calls a PrimePower interface format (PIF) file. That contains switching activity and hierarchy information. The file is created by programming language interface routines provided with the...