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PowerArtist
RTL power analysis and optimization platform to model, debug, and reduce chip power
Analyze, Profile, and Lower RTL Power
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.
With Keysight PowerArtist, your team can:
- Model physical implementation effects to automatically find power reduction opportunities.
- Quickly debug power hotspots using an intuitive, interactive interface.
- Profile real workloads from emulators while analyzing tens of milliseconds of activity in hours, not days.
- Stream millions of register-transfer-level (RTL) cycles efficiently for deep power analysis and early decision-making.
- Identify testbench gaps and drive intermediate representation (IR) flows by ranking vectors for maximum coverage with minimum simulation cycles.
Use PowerArtist to enable smarter decisions, stronger power integrity, and more efficient system on a chip (SoC) architectures.
Key Features of PowerArtist
Physically aware RTL power budgeting
Accurately model physical effects like clock tree synthesis and placement-aware wire capacitance at the RTL level to produce reliable power estimates.
Comprehensive power analysis and debug
Identify power hotspots and debug their root cause interactively with a powerful graphical interface and comprehensive custom database queries.
Power efficiency metrics-based regression
Track power and efficiency metrics throughout the design cycle to prevent power creep and ensure consistent, low-power design performance.
Automated power reduction
Automatically reduce clock, memory, and logic power at the block and instance level in the RTL using proven techniques for efficient, low-power design.
RTL-driven power grid integrity
Use RTL power models to analyze and improve the power delivery network early, enabling power grid prototyping and integrity checks before physical design.
Power profiling for real applications
Rapidly generate RTL power profiles from real application activity (such as OS boot-up) for early visibility to avoid costly surprises late in design.
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PowerArtist – FAQ
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