A systematic method for functional unit power estimation in microprocessors

  • Authors:
  • Wei Wu;Lingling Jin;Jun Yang;Pu Liu;Sheldon X.-D. Tan

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Riverside, CA;University of California, Riverside, CA;University of California, Riverside, CA;University of California, Riverside, CA;University of California, Riverside, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 43rd annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present a new method for mathematically estimating the active unit power of functional units in modern microprocessors such as the Pentium 4 family. Our method leverages the phasic behavior in power consumption of programs, and captures as many power phases as possible to form a linear system of equations such that the functional unit power can be solved. Our experiment results on a real Pentium 4 processor show that power estimations attained as such agree with the measured power very well, with deviations less than 5% only.