An Improved Power Macro-Model for Arithmetic Datapath Components

  • Authors:
  • D. Helms;Eike Schmidt;Arne Schulz;Ansgar Stammermann;Wolfgang Nebel

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • PATMOS '02 Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Integrated Circuit Design. Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We propose an improved power macro-model for arithmetic datapath components, which is based on spatio-temporal correlations of two consecutive input vectors and the output vector. Based on the enhanced Hamming-distance model [3], we introduce an additional spatial distance for the input vector and the Hamming-distance of the output vector to improve model accuracy significantly. Experimental results show that the models standard deviation is reduced by 3% for small components and up to 23% for complex components. Because of its fast and accurate power prediction, this model can be used for fast high-level power analysis.