Azuro is a provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software for digital semiconductor chip design. Azuro's unique technology enables electronics companies around the world to implement digital clock networks with significantly less manual effort and with significantly lower power consumption than ever before.

Azuro's software is being used by leading semiconductor companies around the globe to design cellular modem chips, multimedia chips, network switches, graphics chips, bluetooth and WiFi chips, embedded processors, PC chipsets, and many other mobile and line powered devices.

Azuro is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA with a development office in Cambridge, UK. The company also has offices in San Diego, CA; Dallas, TX; and Tokyo, Japan.

Technology
Azuro's PowerCentric solution operates as a complete replacement for clock tree synthesis (CTS) and post-CTS optimization steps within digital design flows, comprehensively addressing power, timing, and variability within one unified optimization environment. PowerCentric brings together unique power-aware and variability-aware algorithms for:

• Clock tree buffering,
• Gate-level clock gate logic synthesis,
• Statistical average case power analysis,
• Global placement and legalization,
• Timing optimization,

to deliver a completely unified clock implementation solution for advanced nanometer designs. Key benefits of PowerCentric include reduced power consumption, increased design speed, and accelerated time-to-market.

Market Opportunity

With every new generation of device, electronics companies are driven to deliver yet more computational horsepower for less cost at even lower power consumption. Whatever the underlying market force, be it the increasingly widespread availability of broadband connectivity, WiFI networks, 3G cellular networks, GPS handsets, mobile phones that are also music players, HD-TV, VoIP, blue-ray, on-demand TV, internet server farms, or broadband central office racks, the underlying driver on the chips inside these devices is always to be faster, smaller, and lower power.