Mindtree joins PFI to offer CPF

Bangalore: MindTree Ltd—provider of complete solutions in the ASIC and IC design services, assists customers designing ICs for communications and consumer applications—and the Power Forward Initiative (PFI), Si2-approved standard format for specifying power-saving techniques, announced that MindTree has joined the PFI and will be offering a common power format (CPF)-enabled low-power flow to its design services customers. With the addition of MindTree, the PFI continues to increase its momentum and now has 27 members. As a design services company, MindTree has adopted the Cadence Design Systems Inc low-power solution which is designed to increase productivity, manage design complexity, and shorten time to market.

S.N. Padmanabhan, senior vice president of R&D Services at MindTree, said, “Low-power design capability is extremely important to our customers. A large percentage of designs coming to us are targeted for communications and consumer products requiring require low-power implementations. CPF provides the mechanism for clear communication of low-power intent between the customer and MindTree; this helps us deliver high-quality low-power solutions to our customers.”

Pankaj Mayor, group director of business enablement at Cadence Design Systems, stated, “We are delighted to have MindTree join the PFI and look forward to working with them to make low-power design a success for the electronics industry as a whole and to their customers in particular. We applaud MindTree’s leadership; it is critical for the semiconductor industry to work closely together to advance low-power technologies, design, and production solutions.”

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