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Envis July 2008 Newsletter

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:40:00 GMT

Envis newsletter for customers and the low power ecosystem.

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Envis Slideshow: DAC 2008

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:45:00 GMT

View the Envis slide show from DAC 2008: Automated Power Reduction for SoC Design.

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Designers cite low-power challenges, solutions

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:15:00 GMT

Designers at the Design Automation Conference (DAC 2008) called for system-level power optimization and analysis, cited verification challenges raised by low power design, and shared approaches they're using to reduce power consumption. EDA tools are helping, designers said, but problems are worsening.

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Power Has Consequences, So Chill Out!

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:45:00 GMT

June 9, 2008 -- The March edition of Vanity Fair had an article that covered Google's construction of a three-building data center next to the Columbia River in Oregon, to take advantage of cheap power no longer required by a defunct aluminum smelter. Apart from being a wonderful encapsulation of a smokestack industry giving way to high-tech, it is also an example of the transformation of where power is being consumed in the modern world.

In a data center, about 2/3 of the power is consumed in the servers and routers, and 1/3 is consumed in the air conditioning to get rid of the power dissipated uselessly as heat. But where is all that power actually used? While some goes into fans and disk drive motors, most of the power is consumed in semiconductors: the processors, memories and custom chips that make up the boards, that are packed in the racks, that constitute the electronic systems, that are packed into the buildings. As in any system, the power dissipated as heat is essentially waste. But it is expensive waste, since we need to use still more power to get it out of the building!

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Gary Smith: What To See at DAC 2008

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:30:00 GMT

Gary Smith lists companies worth visiting at DAC 2008.

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Holly Stump Joins Envis as VP Marketing EDA

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:30:00 GMT

Envis Corporation today announced that industry and low-power marketing veteran Holly Stump has joined Envis as its vice president of marketing. Stump, with more than 20 years in EDA and high technology, holds the charter for corporate, product and strategic marketing, reporting directly to Envis president and CEO, Paul McLellan.

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Envis Exhibiting at DAC 2008

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:30:00 GMT

Visit Envis at the Design Automation Conference 2008: Anaheim, California, June 8-13, 2008, Booth #2473,

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Envis Unveils Strategy To Address Integrated Circuit Power Management Challenges

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:30:00 GMT

Envis today revealed its strategy for meeting the challenges of design power management in integrated circuit (IC) implementation. The company intends to broadly deploy electronic design automation (EDA) products based on unique, proprietary technology that will enable designers to rapidly and accurately estimate, and further make strides in reducing the power consumption through analysis and optimization. As its products, Envis is offering Chill, an intelligent approach to automating an optimal combination of dynamic and static power reduction, and Kelvin, a power estimation environment that combines automatic power vector generation with power consumption simulation and analysis.

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