LongRun2 FAQ

Questions
  1. What are LongRun2 Technologies?
  2. What are the key advantages of using LongRun2 Technologies?
  3. What is the intended market for LongRun2 Technologies?
  4. How does LongRun2 Technologies compare to Multi-Vt?
  5. How does LongRun2 Technologies compare to power gating?
  6. How do I license LongRun2 Technologies for my design?
  7. Where can I get more information on LongRun2 Technologies?
  8. Who has licensed LongRun2 Technologies to date?

Answers
  1. LongRun2 Technologies are a suite of advanced power management, leakage control and process compensation technologies that can diminish the negative effects of increasing leakage power and process variations in advanced nanoscale designs. LongRun2 Technologies addresses these challenges with components ranging from advanced algorithms, innovative circuits, unique devices and structures, process techniques, software and manufacturing optimization methods.

  2. What are the key advantages of using LongRun2 Technologies?
    LongRun2 Technologies provides many benefits, including the ability to:
    • Improve Yield Distributions
    • Reduce active power consumption
    • Minimize standby power consumption
    • Enable rapid conversion of SOI based designs to bulk CMOS designs

  3. What are the intended markets for LongRun2 Technologies?
    • ASIC Designs
    • FPGAs
    • Mobile Phone Processors
    • Microprocessors and Computing
    • Graphics Processors

  4. How does LongRun2 Technologies compare with multi-Vt?
    • LongRun2 Technologies can be compatible with multi-Vt and can provide even greater power savings. Furthermore, LongRun2 Technologies can improve yield distributions, which multi-Vt cannot.

  5. How does LongRun2 Technologies compare with power gating?
    • LongRun2 Technologies can be compatible with existing power gated designs and can also improve yield distributions utilizing power gating.

  6. How do I license LongRun2 Technologies for my design?

  7. Where can I get more information about LongRun2 Technologies?

  8. Who has licensed LongRun2 Technologies to date?