Instruction based power consumption estimation methodology

Author

Caldari, Marco ; Conti, Massimo ; Crippa, Paolo ; Nuzzo, Giuseppe ; Orcioni, Simone ; Turchetti, Claudio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Ancona Univ., Italy

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

721

Abstract

The paper presents a new model of the dynamic power dissipated by a circuit described at gate or behavioural level. A procedure is presented for an accurate estimate of the power dissipated during the execution of each instruction by using gate level or behavioural level digital simulations. The information on power consumption stored in a look-up table can be used in a system level simulation. The methodology has been applied to the design of an I²C bus driver.

Keywords

circuit simulation; digital simulation; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit modelling; parameter estimation; system-on-chip; table lookup; I²C bus driver design; behavioural level digital simulations; dissipated power estimation; dynamic power dissipation model; gate level digital simulations; instruction based power consumption estimation methodology; instruction execution; look-up table; system level simulation; system on chip; Analytical models; Capacitance; Circuit simulation; Clocks; Consumer electronics; Digital simulation; Energy consumption; Frequency; System-on-a-chip; Table lookup;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2002. 9th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7596-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2002.1046270

Filename

1046270