NoC Power Estimation at the RTL Abstraction Level

Guilherme Guindani, Cezar Reinbrecht, Thiago Raupp, Ney Calazans, Fernando Gehm Moraes
2008 2008 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI  
The increasing use of mobile electronic devices forces the design of integrated circuits to consider low power techniques. Current power estimation models for oCs capitalize mostly in the volume of information transmitted through the network. This work presents a more precise oC power estimation model, based in buffer reception rates, according to the traffic scenario applied to the network. Results show the accuracy of the model compared to industrial power estimation tools, with reduced
more » ... ion time. The proposed method allows exploring the oC design space, being employed to evaluate the benefit on using the multicast service. IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI 978-0-7695-3170-0/08 $25.00
doi:10.1109/isvlsi.2008.17 dblp:conf/isvlsi/GuindaniRRCM08 fatcat:bq4gu54qyfehfjamnz7skr6uxa