• DocumentCode
    1788654
  • Title

    Power estimations vs. power measurements in Spartan-6 devices

  • Author

    Oliver, Juan P. ; Perez Acle, Julio ; Boemo, Eduardo

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. de Ing. Electr., Univ. de la Republica Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    5-7 Nov. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    Experimental measurements of power consumption for core logic of a 45-nm Spartan-6 FPGA and the comparison with the values predicted by the power estimation tool are presented. The measurement setup, benchmark suite, and EDA flows utilized to obtain power estimations are described. Several types of multipliers implemented in both LUTs and embedded blocks have been utilized as case-studies. They include versions with different levels of pipelining. In addition, a set of actual circuits obtained from OpenCores is analyzed. Main results of power estimations errors are presented and compared.
  • Keywords
    benchmark testing; field programmable gate arrays; power consumption; power measurement; power supplies to apparatus; 45-nm Spartan-6 FPGA; EDA flows; LUT; OpenCores; Spartan-6 devices; benchmark suite; core logic; embedded blocks; experimental power consumption measurement; power estimation tool; Decision support systems; low-power; power estimations; power measurements;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Programmable Logic (SPL), 2014 IX Southern Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Buenos Aires
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-6846-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SPL.2014.7002214
  • Filename
    7002214