Azuro

Azuro, Inc. is an electronic design automation (EDA) software company. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, California with a development office in Cambridge, UK.

Azuro develops software for the design of integrated circuits, specializing in analyzing power consumption of the chips.To produce more efficient chips Azuro has developed a program called "PowerCentric" [ [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-126612580.html Azuro Rolls Out PowerCentric for ARC Configurable Subsystems and Cores] ] by concentrating on the clock network. In synchronous circuit designs all changes of state are coordinated by a clock, and this clock edge must be distributed to all parts of the chip. Since the clock signal is distributed throughout the entire circuit it can consume a large percentage of the energy used. Azuro's approach unifies the steps of clock gating and clock tree synthesis. Azuro has a patent pending on a technique it calls iCTS for doing this.

See also

*Electronic design automation
*Design flow (EDA)
*Integrated circuit design

References

* [http://eetimes.com/news/design/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=190300222 EETimes: Power reduction tool extends to 65-nm]
* [http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202804213 EETimes: Starc adopts Azuro's clock-tree synthesis] .
* [http://www.edn.com/article/CA6349775.html EDN: Azuro Cuts Power in 65nm Digital Designs ]
* [http://www.edn.com/article/CA601818.html EDN: Power-savvy tool replaces clock-tree synthesis]
* [http://www.eetimes.eu/163104557 EETimes Europe: Startup targets power problems in wireless IC design]