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DATE
1999
IEEE
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A Power Estimation Model for High-Speed CMOS A/D Converters
Power estimation is important for system-level exploration and trade-off analysis of VLSI systems. A power estimator for high-speed analog to digital converters that exploits info...
Erik Lauwers, Georges G. E. Gielen
ISLPED
2000
ACM
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Speeding up power estimation of embedded software
Power is increasingly becoming a design constraint for embedded systems. A processor is responsible for energy consumption on account of the software component of the embedded sys...
Akshaye Sama, J. F. M. Theeuwen, M. Balakrishnan
ASPDAC
2000
ACM
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A hybrid approach for core-based system-level power modeling
Reducing power consumption has become a key goal for systemon-a-chip (SOC) designs. Fast and accurate power estimation is needed early in the design process, since power reduction...
Tony Givargis, Frank Vahid, Jörg Henkel
ISQED
2000
IEEE
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Probabilistic Bottom-Up RTL Power Estimation
We address the problem of power estimation at the register-transfer level (RTL). At this level, the circuit is described in terms of a set of interconnected memory elements and co...
Ricardo Ferreira, A.-M. Trullemans, José C....
GLVLSI
2000
IEEE
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Supporting system-level power exploration for DSP applications
System-level power exploration requires tools for estimation of the overall power consumed by a system, as well as a detailed breakdown of the consumption of its main functional b...
Luca Benini, Marco Ferrero, Alberto Macii, Enrico ...
ISLPED
2003
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Low-power high-level synthesis for FPGA architectures
This paper addresses two aspects of low-power design for FPGA circuits. First, we present an RT-level power estimator for FPGAs with consideration of wire length. The power estima...
Deming Chen, Jason Cong, Yiping Fan
FPL
2005
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
Statistical Power Estimation for FPGA
This article presents a power estimation tool integrated with an FPGA design flow. It is able to estimate total and individual-node average power consumption for combinational blo...
Elias Todorovich, Fabian Angarita, Javier Valls, E...
DATE
2005
IEEE
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Hardware Accelerated Power Estimation
In this paper, we present power emulation, a novel design paradigm that utilizes hardware acceleration for the purpose of fast power estimation. Power emulation is based on the ob...
Joel Coburn, Srivaths Ravi, Anand Raghunathan
ISLPED
2006
ACM
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Considering process variations during system-level power analysis
Process variations will increasingly impact the operational characteristics of integrated circuits in nanoscale semiconductor technologies. Researchers have proposed various desig...
Saumya Chandra, Kanishka Lahiri, Anand Raghunathan...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
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A timing dependent power estimation framework considering coupling
In this paper, we propose a timing dependent dynamic power estimation framework that considers the impact of coupling and glitches. We show that relative switching activities and ...
Debjit Sinha, DiaaEldin Khalil, Yehea I. Ismail, H...