• DocumentCode
    3216061
  • Title

    Accurate power estimation for large sequential circuits

  • Author

    Kozhaya, J.N. ; Najm, F.N.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    9-13 Nov. 1997
  • Firstpage
    488
  • Lastpage
    493
  • Abstract
    A power estimation approach is presented in which blocks of consecutive vectors are selected at random from a user-supplied realistic input vector set and the circuit is simulated for each block starting from an unknown state. This leads to two (upper and lower) bounds on the desired power value which can be quite tight (under 10% difference between the two in many cases). As a result, the power dissipation is obtained by simulating only a fraction of the potentially very large vector set.
  • Keywords
    integrated logic circuits; logic CAD; power consumption; sequential circuits; circuit simulation; consecutive vectors; input vector set; power dissipation; power estimation; sequential circuits; Sequential logic circuits;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer-Aided Design, 1997. Digest of Technical Papers., 1997 IEEE/ACM International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA, USA
  • ISSN
    1092-3152
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-8200-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCAD.1997.643581
  • Filename
    643581