Design & Reuse

Dolphin Integration reveals the standard power kit library DELTA to ease the deployment of an optimal power management network into a SoC

Grenoble, France – November 24, 2014 -To overcome the power challenge, Power Management Networks (PMNet) are becoming more and more complex. Making the right choices for embedding PMNets into System-on-Chips (SoC) might result in tricky issues for the integrator.

To ease the PMNet deployment, Dolphin Integration reveals the disruptive approach enabled by the standardized “Reduced Power Kit Library”, namely DELTA.

Stringent objectives addressed by DELTA:

  • Being a library of reusable components
  • Optimize the SoC even with a reduced set of regulation components for each challenge: high efficiency, low noise, low BoM, low leakage…
  • Standardize rules to ease PMNet integration
  • Feature innovative views to enable PMNet verifications

Discover how DELTA makes the difference:


Classic (Custom) power management Library

DELTA (Reusable) Power Kit Library

Advantages for your SoC

Components customized for each load within a SoC

Reduced number of predefined and validated structures parametrized by a dozen of Power Stage Units

Reducing time-to-market

Benchmark at regulation components level

Cooperative selection process to evaluate the entire PMNet through the Figure-of-Merit (FoM)

Reaching the best performance trade-off for the overall PMNet

Lack of integration methodology for assembling an optimal PMNet


4 pre-defined voltage levels for “Interfaces for the Distribution of Power” (IDP) facilitating reusability and spreading the regulation constraints through PMNet architecture

Easing selection of regulation components required for an optimal PMNet


Standard rules for PMNet integration

Enabling a mixed PMNet embedding third party components

Omission of verifications for PMNet robustness over fast transitions between activity modes

Behavioral simulation models with EDA solution for verifying the SoC assembly

Securing integration of the PMNet

To reach the best overall power consumption, DELTA RPKL is compatible with our offering for island construction.

Find-out more about the DELTA Library on the featured Tech Talk presented by Dolphin Integration as Effective Optimization of Power Management Architectures through Four standard “Interfaces for the Distribution of Power”.

For more information contact our Product Marketing Manager at jeg.marketing@dolphin.fr

About Dolphin Integration

Dolphin Integration contribute to "enabling mixed signal Systems-on-Chip" for worldwide customers with IP components best at low-power consumption.

Their wide offering of silicon IP components is based on innovative libraries of standard cells, register files, memory generators and power regulators for flexible power supply networks. They provide power optimized micro-controllers from 8 to 32 bits, and high-resolution converters for audio and measurement applications.

Their 30 years of diverse experiences in the integration of IP components and providing services for ASIC/SoC design and fabrication, with their own solutions for missing EDA, make them a genuine one-stop shop covering all customers’ needs for specific requests.

Their drive to incessantly innovate for their customers’ success has led to two strong differentiators:

  • state-of-the-art “configured subsystems” for high-performance applications securing the most competitive SoC architectural solutions,
  • a team of Central and Field Application Engineers supporting each user’s need for optimal application schematics, demonstrated through EDA solutions enabling early performance assessments.