Partnership addresses system optimisation

CoFluent is an electronic system level company that provides system level modeling and simulation for embedded devices. Docea is a design-for-low-power company that delivers software for power and thermal analysis at the architectural level. The companies' products – CoFluent Studio and Docea Power's Aceplorer – are now interoperable in a bid to allow systems architects to optimise power usage more efficiently. Stéphane Leclercq (pictured), chief executive officer of CoFluent Design, said: "Power estimation and analysis is a crucial element when exploring and optimising the architecture of electronic systems as 80% of power gains can be obtained at this stage. However, true system-level optimisation requires analysing all system dimensions at once: behaviour, performance, power, and cost. The interoperability between CoFluent Studio and Aceplorer allows for describing all the architectural dimensions of an electronic system and analysing them from a single model. Full power optimisation gains can be obtained only when all dimensions in system architecting have been investigated under various dynamic application scenarios." Ghislain Kaiser, Docea Power's chief executive officer, added: "Making tradeoffs between performance and power consumption is a critical activity at the architectural level for complex system designs. But exploring a large solution space that involves all the dimensions can be a nightmare without the right modeling methodology and the right tools. By working with CoFluent, we can separate the views of a complex electronic system and have the models work together in an efficient way to accelerate power exploration and optimisation of electronic system designs."