Novel modeling techniques for RTL power estimation

  • Authors:
  • Michael Eiermann;Walter Stechele

  • Affiliations:
  • Technical University of Munich, Muenchen, Germany;Technical University of Munich, Muenchen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2002 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this work, we propose efficient macromodeling techniques for RTL power estimation, based only on word and bit level switching information of the module inputs. We present practicable combina驴tions of these two properties for the construction of power macro-models. It is demonstrated, that our developed models reduce the estimation error compared to the Hamming-distance model at least by 64%. The total average errors (compared to PowerMill) achieved over a wide range of test modules and input stimuli are less than 4.6%. This is comparable to complex models, which how驴ever, have to make use of several more signal properties.