All-Digital Solution Addresses
SoC Clocking Challenges
Movellus Maestro™ clock distribution network platform delivers chip-level architectural
innovations to improve SoC performance while reducing power consumption.
Maestro solves SoC-level clock distribution challenges in high performance and ultra low power chips. This includes on-chip variation, jitter, clock skews, setup and hold violations, peak current, and switching noise. All of these clocking challenges continue to increase with process node scaling. The Maestro platform provides application-optimized digital components that intelligently orchestrate timing across an SoC.
The platform uses Movellus TrueDigital™ components which are all-digital, fully synthesizable PLLs (phase-locked loops), DLLs (delay-locked loops), Smart Clock Modules, and Virtual Mesh. These components achieve unrivaled power savings and offer superior PPA to traditional analog and partial-digital solutions. TrueDigital technology offers nanowatt power consumption, a wide voltage range, up to 10X smaller area, and low jitter.
The Maestro clocking solution with TrueDigital offers up to 30% dynamic power reduction, 15x peak power savings, 30% performance gains, and 5x faster timing signoff.
Customizable in Weeks
Fully synthesizable architecture speeds implementation
Wide Voltage & Frequency Range
Enables reduced chip power consumption
Nanowatt Power
Does not require precise voltage or current biasing
Up to 10X Smaller Area
Not dependent on matching and passive elements
Sub-Picosecond Jitter
Higher level of noise immunity than analog
Rad-Hardened Designs
Radiation-hardened using existing digital libraries
Process Node Independent
Supports processes from all foundries
Leverages Existing Tools
Uses existing digital tools and methodologies
“We knew that we that had to design neural processors with not only exceptional performance, but with chips that achieve that performance at very low power and in a very small die area. Therefore, choosing the right IP partner critical for us. We put our trust in Movellus because their clock generation and CGM solutions fit our low-power architecture perfectly. They proved to be the right choice. In addition, to the architectural fit, their support from their application team helped us meet the very tight timelines we had set for introducing our solution to the market. That is the reason we continue to work with Movellus and as we work to expand our award-winning portfolio of neural decision processor for edge AI.”
