Why Use RTL Power Analysis and Optimization (PowerArtist)
Enable smarter decisions, stronger power integrity, and more efficient system on a chip (SoC) architectures.
Power efficiency is critical for semiconductor design. Whether you’re building mobile, central processing units (CPUs), networking, or automotive integrated circuits (ICs), the industry-leading PowerArtist platform helps you tackle power challenges early in the development cycle for the highest impact.
Key Capabilities
Accurately model physical effects like clock tree synthesis and placement-aware wire capacitance at the RTL level to produce reliable power estimates.
Identify power hotspots and debug their root cause interactively with a powerful graphical interface and comprehensive custom database queries.
Track power and efficiency metrics throughout the design cycle to prevent power creep and ensure consistent, low-power design performance.
Automatically reduce clock, memory, and logic power at the block and instance level in the RTL using proven techniques for efficient, low-power design.
Use RTL power models to analyze and improve the power delivery network early, enabling power grid prototyping and integrity checks before physical design.
Rapidly generate RTL power profiles from real application activity (such as OS boot-up) for early visibility to avoid costly surprises late in design.
Resources to Get You Started
Keysight PowerArtist is the register transfer level (RTL) design-for-power platform of choice for semiconductor designers.
blogs
What Is Register-Transfer-Level (RTL) Design?
White Paper
Decoding Glitch Power at the RTL Stage
Webinars
Building Energy‑Smart Chips: Modern RTL Power Techniques for Next‑Gen SoCs
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Keysight PowerArtist is a complete RTL power analysis and optimization platform that helps design teams quickly find, understand, and reduce power with high accuracy and efficiency.
PowerArtist is used across a wide range of semiconductor design applications including:
- Mobile and consumer electronics
- CPUs and high-performance computing
- Networking and communications ICs
- Automotive and safety-critical systems
It is ideal for any design where early, accurate RTL power analysis and optimization are essential.
PowerArtist capabilities include:
- Physically aware RTL power accuracy
- Interactive power debug
- Analysis-driven power reduction
- Unique metrics for tracking power efficiency and vector coverage
- Rapid power profiling of real workloads
- Seamless enablement of RTL-to-physical power grid integrity