Azuro

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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^[1] 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.

[edit] See also

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

[edit] References

1. ^ Azuro Rolls Out PowerCentric for ARC Configurable Subsystems and Cores

• EETimes: Power reduction tool extends to 65-nm
• EETimes: Starc adopts Azuro's clock-tree synthesis.
• EDN: Azuro Cuts Power in 65nm Digital Designs
• EDN: Power-savvy tool replaces clock-tree synthesis
• EETimes Europe: Startup targets power problems in wireless IC design