Case Study: iVivity achieves 40% lower power, 2× performance and 3× lower chip cost with Synopsys DesignWare IP

Synopsys and iVivity High Quality DesignWare IP for PCI Express, XAUI, and DDR Lowers Power and Area

iVivity, a developer of silicon solutions for unified voice, video and data networks, needed to bring its next‑generation iDiSX1000 10M‑gate storage network processor to market. The team faced a tight set of requirements: dramatically higher performance, plus reductions in power, chip area and overall silicon cost while maintaining ease of integration and reliability.

Synopsys supplied DesignWare IP (PCI Express digital core and PHY, XAUI PHY and DDR I/O libraries) that was highly optimized, easy to integrate and supported with strong engineering assistance. The result: a PCIe core 20% smaller than competitors, industry‑leading diagnostics, up to 40% lower power, more than double the performance and a threefold reduction in chip cost, with the integrated solution delivered at very high quality.

iVivity

Jim O’Connor

Vice President of Engineering