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About ChipVision Design Systems
ChipVision Design Systems is a leading supplier of system-level, low power optimization solutions that enable the design of complex integrated circuits (ICs) for the communications, wireless, and consumer product markets.

The use of ChipVision’s solution in the pre-implementation phase substantially reduce cost and time to market. They shorten the SoC design cycle by allowing pre-RTL optimization for low power.

ChipVision’s power optimization solution PowerOpt is the only design tool that efficiently allows designers to bridge between the the Electronic System Level (ESL), at which the most significant reduction of power can be achieved, and the RT Level. Key targets users for ChipVision’s PowerOpt technology are

SoC Micro Architects focus on the development of individual data flow dominated blocks in a System on Chip. They start with an algorithm defined in ANSI C or SystemC and take it to implementation. PowerOpt assists them in exploring and optimizing the micro architecture for low power and to specify the results for RTL implementation.
SoC Architects focus on the integration of the various blocks in a SoC and use PowerOpt to assess trade offs for selection of IP blocks based on their power characteristics.
Algorithm Designers use PowerOpt to select optimize the algorithm best suited for implementation by optimizing the number of arithmetic operations required

Background
ChipVision's design tool PowerOpt is the result of 10 years of research; beginning at the University of Oldenburg. Based on this fundamental understanding of power consumption at all levels of abstraction first prototypes of the tool were developed by the renowned research institute OFFIS in close cooperation with industrial partners including Siemens, Alcatel, Motorola, Atmel and with partial funding from the European Union as part of their research framework programmes.

History
ChipVision Design Systems AG, established in June 2002, based in Oldenburg, Germany, is a spin off of the OFFIS and Systems Consulting GmbH, Germany. The subsidiary ChipVision Design Systems, Inc. was founded 2002 as well to address the American market. ChipVision received its initial venture financing in May 2003 from a consortium led by Target Partners and BayTech Venture Capital, both located in Munich, Germany.