{"id":252,"date":"2019-03-14T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/?p=252"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:00:08","slug":"using-less-power-at-the-same-node","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/2019\/03\/14\/using-less-power-at-the-same-node\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Less Power At The Same Node"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Excerpt from article: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/semiengineering.com\/using-less-power-at-the-same-node\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Using Less Power At The Same Node<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cGPUs and&nbsp;artificial intelligence&nbsp;do require the new nodes, but it is very expensive,\u201d says Mohammed Fahad, consulting staff lead for synthesis solutions at <a href=\"https:\/\/semiengineering.com\/entities\/mentor-a-siemens-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Siemens EDA<\/a>. \u201cNot all companies can afford that. There are a lot of design companies still working on higher nodes such as 28nm. There are performance improvements when you move to advanced nodes in terms of speed, and there is a power reduction, but given the costs associated with that companies are trying to explore new avenues and other methods to reduce power.\u201d<\/p><p>As fewer designs start on the new nodes, it creates a ripple effect through the industry. \u201cWe have seen a trend that started with the mobile phone industry and is now increasing across the industry,\u201d says Rob Knoth, product management director in the Digital &amp; Signoff Group at&nbsp;Cadence. \u201cWe see people who are either not jumping to the next node or have to stay on the current nodes because of&nbsp;IP&nbsp;availability or other reason.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the entire article on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/semiengineering.com\/using-less-power-at-the-same-node\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SemiEngineering<\/a>&nbsp;originally published on March 14th, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from article: &#8220;Using Less Power At The Same Node&#8220; \u201cGPUs and&nbsp;artificial intelligence&nbsp;do require the new nodes, but it is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77876,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[416,419],"industry":[],"product":[176],"coauthors":[349],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-product-updates","tag-less-power","tag-less-power-at-same-node","product-powerpro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}