Validation of an architectural level power analysis technique

Rita Yu Chen, R.M. Owens, M.J. Irwin, R.S. Bajwa
Proceedings 1998 Design and Automation Conference. 35th DAC. (Cat. No.98CH36175)  
This paper presents a technique used to d o p o w er analysis of a real processor at the architectural level. The target processor integrates a 16-bit DSP a n d a 3 2 -bit RISC on a single chip. Our power estimator provides power consumption data of the architecture based on the instruction data ow stream. We demonstrate the accuracy of the estimator by c o m p aring the p o w er values it produces against measurements made by a gate level power simulator for the same benchmark set. Our
more » ... on approach has been shown to provide very e cient, accurate power analysis at the architectural level.
doi:10.1109/dac.1998.724474 fatcat:7tn6ny4ddrggzazjs5wrz67lqu