Azuro
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Azuro, Inc. is a electronic design automation (EDA) software company. It is headquartered in Mountain View, California with a development office in Cambridge, UK.
Azuro develops software for the design of integrated circuits, specializing in analyzing power consumption of the chips. To produce more efficient chips Azuro has developed a program called Powercentric by concentrating on the clock network. In synchronous circuit designs all changes of state are coordinated by a clock, and this clock edge must be distributed to all parts of the chip. Since the clock signal is distributed throughout the entire circuit it can consume a large percentage of the energy used. Azuro's approach unifies the steps of clock gating and clock tree synthesis. Azuro has a patent pending on a technique it calls iCTS™ for doing this.
