Common Power Format

The Si2 Common Power Format (CPF) is an industry standard power format for specifying power-saving techniques early in the design process – enabling engineers to share and reuse low-power intelligence. Recognizing the urgent need for an automated, power-aware design infrastructure, industry leaders collaborate through the Power Forward Initiative (PFI) to drive low-power design methodology and have contributed to the development of the CPF v1.0 specification. PFI membership spans EDA, IP, library, foundry, fables, ASIC, IDM, and equipment companies. In March of 2007, CPF v1.0 was contributed to the Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) where it was ratified by Si2’s Low Power Coalition (LPC) as a Si2 standard. The LPC controls the ongoing evolution of the CPF v1.0 standard. The Cadence Low-Power Solution supports Si2’s CPF and offers the industry’s first complete flow that integrates logic design, verification, and implementation technologies.

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