SANECHIPS Optimizes RTL Power with PowerPro

SANECHIPS is one of the leading providers of chips to the ICT industry, possessing the capability to design complex SoC chips spanning the entire front and back-end processes. With over 130 types of chips in mass production, we cater to computing power, networking, and terminals markets.

This paper describes how SANECHIPS utilized Siemens Digital Industries Software’s PowerPro™ to lower the power and improve energy efficiency of their chips by using PowerPro’s Automatic RTL power optimization flow. Leveraging features such as Observability-based analysis (OBS) and Stability based analysis (STB), 24.3% of the candidate flops (37,641 out of 154,886) were optimized, resulting in a reduction of power from 200.675mW to 186.363mW.