The gap between battery technology and user requirements for portable computing continues to widen. Now also energy regulations and 'green' marketing are driving power reductions in mains powered applications.
IC designers are going to huge lengths in terms of architecting ICs with power consumption in mind, particularly at lower process nodes. Techniques such as voltage islands are gaining wider acceptance. Now adaption of power to the on-die IC process, temperature and voltage are also being applied. However using these techniques can have a significant NRE, Time to Market and Risk impact to a program.
S3 Group has been working in the low power space for over 20 years and has taped out over 30 designs at 65nm and 45nm. We have worked extensively on advanced low power techniques such as voltage islands and gating in nanometer nodes. S3 Group's Low Power Offering Includes:
- Consultancy on architecture and methodologies for reducing power to a target level within a defined cost and time envelope
- Low power system design, analog / digital signal processing algorithm development and embedded SW for wireless applications
- S3 Group's proprietary NanoPower flow and expert designers for low power implementation of digital front end, verification & backend
- Common Power Format (CPF) compliant flows including S3 Group's proprietary NanoPower Architect CPF generation and analysis tool
- Power management IP integration & customization of DC-DC converters, linear voltage regulators & calibration IP
- Analog & Mixed-Signal low power design including digitally enhanced Analog for power savings in nanometer technologies
S3 Group has proven these capabilities on a large number of designs with leading customers including for example a 100X reduction of power in key modes for a top 10 cellular handset IC provider. Partnering with us will allow you to focus on your application and product differentiators while S3 Group takes care of every aspect of your device power consumption. This will ensure that you bring the most competitive and power efficient product to market.
"S3 Group's multi-discipline architecture capability enabled Phonak to realize a high complexity, industry leading product under tight time-to-market constraints with excellent system performance and reduced power consumption."
Dr Herbert Bächler
Chief Technology Officer
Phonak Hearing Systems
If you would like to discuss how S3 Group can help you reduce the cost and form factor of your wireless solution through state-of-the-art integration, or would like make your existing solution wireless… please contact us at info(at)s3group.com.
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