Implementing safe Power Regulation Networks

The project has also shown that FD-SOI substrates fit IoT and automotive new applications thanks to its low-power consumption capabilities. For instance, it allows to dynamically take control on threshold voltage and compensate for temperature variations, driving speed improvement by 200% for ultra-low voltage applications.

Frederic Poullet, Dolphin Integration’s CTO, stated: “Being involved in the THINGS2DO project was an opportunity for Dolphin Integration to start introducing FD-SOI in its automatic design methodologies. Dolphin Integration plans to offer a full suite of tools allowing its customers to implement right-on-first-pass Power Regulation Networks.”

Dolphin Integration aims to provide energy efficient IPs and ASIC services dedicated to the low-power application market and supports its internal teams with tailor-made software tools. Willing to go further, and to address the needs of its customers in low-power design, Dolphin Integration develops PowerStudio, a solution for the optimisation of Power Regulation Networks (PRNet) to be used at an early stage of the SoC design process.

PowerStudio will aim to tackle the challenges of PRNet pertaining to noise and power supply integrity. For noise, PowerStudio, has to two powerful mode-related simulations, which check whether the noise tolerance of each sensitive component of a SoC is properly respected within the various SoC usage conditions. For power supply integrity, PowerStudio aims to streamline the Mode Transition Check effects over the PRNet by simulating the power supply integrity of each component of a SoC during mode transitions.