Blast Power

Blast Power™ provides a comprehensive RTL-to-GDSII solution for power optimization and management. Optimal power management is enabled throughout the implementation flow with power-aware synthesis, physical optimization and routing, enabling designers to minimize power and ensure uniform power distribution. Blast Power is fully integrated with Magma’s RTL-to-GDSII implementation flow to enable continuous power, timing and area tradeoffs throughout the design flow.

Addresses power early in the design flow through power-aware synthesis that enables power gating, automatic clock gating, architectural optimizations and other supporting techniques.
Leakage power minimization is achieved by using multiple threshold voltage (multi-Vt) libraries.
Automatic MTCMOS switch insertion and analysis helps power down domains and significantly reduce leakage–an average of 10x.
Provides an automated methodology to support designs with voltage islands, allowing definition of domains at the RTL stage, optimization and analysis across domains, and automatic insertion of special cells to connect domains.
Includes automatic power grid synthesis to enable designers to automatically generate power grids based on specified constraints.
Accurate characterization of decoupling capacitance (decap) as well as support for optimization and insertion of decap cells based on transient analysis minimizes power distribution noise.
Includes a reference methodology that supports the use of special library cells (MTCMOS switches, level shifters, isolation cells and retention flops) and IP tuned for power minimization.
Unified data model architecture and embedded analysis engines enable continuous power, timing, area and yield tradeoffs throughout the RTL-to-GDSII flow.