Elastix
Elastix is an early-stage Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company developing innovative technologies to enable variability-aware designs and optimize power-performance trade-offs for 65nm and beyond technologies.
"Elastic clocks" turn variability-related losses into an opportunity -- by embracing variability, chips can run at significantly higher performance, or significantly lower power. In principle, elastic clocks track variability, and run close to the actual speed of the logic. When the logic runs slow (because the corner of the die or the die is slow, the voltage is low, the temperature is high, or the logic values are such), the clock runs slow, and vice-versa. The primary benefits of using the Elastix technology are gains in energy efficiency - faster designs at same energy consumption, or lower energy consumption for the same performance. The gains are design-dependent, and vary from 30% to 60%. By the virtue of clocks being elastic, the designs run faster, and for power-sensitive applications, the same performance can be achieved by running the design at lower voltages, thereby saving both dynamic and static power.
Elastix´s tools are currently being used on real designs at strategic customer partners. Simulation and test chip measurements have validated the technology and RTL-to-GDSII design flow.
Privately held, Elastix has its global headquarters in Silicon Valley, and its European Headquarters and Global R&D based in Barcelona.
US Offices:
420 Blossom Hill Rd, Suite 101
Los Gatos, CA 95032
Spain Offices:
Almogàvers 157, 2ª planta
08018 Barcelona