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IEEE standardizing low power format

Post time:  2009-03-27
 

Author:eetengr

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IEEE has standardized UPF as the low power format. Is this a roadblock for you as a CPF user?
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Post time:  2009-04-01
 

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A user needs to use what is reliable, proven, and well-supported. CPF 1.0 was released in early 2007, and it is clear from media and conferences that this has been used and supported by many companies and multiple vendors. 
The souped-up version, 1.1, came out six months back and has lots of useful stuff added that we do care about.  I have heard that literally hundreds of tapeouts have been made successfully using CPF. It is supported with parsers, a relational analyzer
tool that Si2 developed, training courses, and programming guides. A strong coalition made up of primarily end-users guide it's development (lead by AMD), not a small group of EDA vendors like UPF. That Si2 group is also working on the entire low-power design flow, not just a file format.
So, it's not clear to me how this really changes anything that matters - if this IEEE spec has no vendors supporting it in any tools, it means nothing to me.
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Reply:IEEE standardizing low power format Post time:  2009-04-02
 

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Ok! if a team already is a CPF user and satisfied the process should continue. Something similar to the case of standardization happening for VHDL & Verilog.

For a new user, does this standardization bias him towards UPF?

Also, with UPF as an IEEE standard should the EDA vendors supporting only CPF in their tool flow go ahead with UPF support also? 
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