Case Study: Wilocity achieves 50% power reduction and 65% performance boost with Synopsys DesignWare IP and Professional Services

Synopsys Professional Services Integrates DesignWare IP for 65nm Wireless PCI Express Design

Wilocity, founded in 2007, develops 60 GHz Wireless PCI Express solutions and set out to build a multi‑gigabit WiGig/IEEE802.11ad SoC on a 65 nm process. The company needed help with design‑flow development and physical implementation to meet tight power, performance and area targets for mobile computing and peripheral applications.

Synopsys Professional Services partnered with Wilocity and supplied silicon‑proven DesignWare IP (PCI Express 2.0, embedded memories and logic libraries) plus the Galaxy implementation platform, providing hands‑on design expertise through tape‑out. The collaboration cut power in some complex arithmetic clusters by ~50%, boosted performance by 65%, and improved utilization by up to 70%, enabling a fully optimized RTL‑to‑GDSII chip implementation.

Wilocity

Ido Naishtein

Director of Physical Design