State of EDA
Lou Covey
In this new podcast series, New Tech Press editorial director Lou Covey looks at crucial issues in the EDA world that are not getting attention in the ever shrinking media. Lou is the president and CEO of Footwasher Media, parent company of New Tech Press, VComm Events and VitalCom … More » Docea Power: It’s still just about efficiencySeptember 17th, 2009 by Lou Covey
Ghislain Kaiser, CEO of Docea Power was my last vendor interview at DAC and one of my favorites because, well, he’s a new face in EDA and he has such a great name. It’s nice to see someone other than the usual suspects. Docea tools help designers explore low-power architecture, with a focus on hardware/software partitioning and “support of the modern and powerful power management techniques,” whatever that means. It’s a cool technology and addresses a significant issue in engineering efficiency for SoC design. Unfortunately, Kaiser was not able to give me a hard, bottom line accounting of what the tool does for profitability. It’s still just about the engineer and not the bottom line. Here’s the interview. |







