Memory Power Modeling - A Novel Approach

Low power consumption is a key requirement in mobile and other embedded applications. Accurate power estimation during design phase is a key enabler for designing a power optimized SoC. Abstracting accurate power models for complex IPs such as embedded memories is a challenging task. At the same time, the complex modules have a large share in total power consumption of an IC. In this paper we analyze various challenges in accurately modeling power of embedded memories and propose a novel approach to model power within the framework of existing power analysis methodology.