CAD TOOLS FOR POWER OPTIMIZATION - Advanced Clock Gating

CGCap (Clock Gating Capture), is a tool for dynamic power management that implements a solution for the automatic instantiation of clock gating circuitry in an RTL netlist. CGCap is largely based on the PowerChecker design flow. More precisely, CGCap can only be invoked once the PowerChecker database has been created on the design under consideration. As in the case of PowerChecker, CGCap also requires the possibility to interface with an RTL simulator; it can be customized to any existing simulator that supports the VCD (Value Change Dump)