Cadence acquires power specialist Azuro

Cadence Designs Systems Inc. has moved to strengthen design tools it provides to customers developing next-generation SoCs through the acquisition of power-focused Azuro Inc. According to Cadence press release, Azuro offers unique clock concurrent optimization technology, also known as ccopt, which delivers superior capabilities for designers faced with increasing performance, power and area challenges. Specifically, ccopt technology has delivered significant quality of silicon (QoS) on high-speed processor designs in the areas of:

• Power (clock tree power reduction up to 30 percent and total power improvements of up to 10 percent),
• Performance (improvements of up to 100 MHz for a GHz design), and
• Area (clock tree area reduction up to 30 percent)

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