Dual-transition glitch filtering in probabilistic waveform power estimation

  • Authors:
  • Fei Hu;Vishwani D. Agrawal

  • Affiliations:
  • Auburn University, AL;Auburn University, AL

  • Venue:
  • GLSVLSI '05 Proceedings of the 15th ACM Great Lakes symposium on VLSI
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Existing gate-level probabilistic approaches to power estimation fail to accurately model the glitch filtering by inertial delays. This effect has an impact on the power dissipation of a circuit and should not be neglected, especially for dynamic power estimation of circuits with dynamic power optimization. We propose a new glitch filtering analysis using the dual-transition probability that captures the states of a node at two different time instances. Experiments show that probabilistic simulation and the tagged probability simulation (TPS) techniques, when enhanced by the dual-transition analysis, provide more consistent power estimation. For circuits with a large component of glitch power, up to 29% improvement in the estimation accuracy is obtained.