Aim for power first for best place-and-route results

It is possible to achieve lower power usage during place-and-route by using software that has a couple of key features:

1) full support for all industry-standard power formats and for multiple power domains, including offering a built-in power domain checker.

2) A unified data model that is shared throughout the entire flow, allowing real routing information and parasitics to be available to each step in the flow, resulting in consistent timing and DRC and excellent correlation to signoff tools.