Power estimation of behavioral descriptions
Fabrizio Ferrandi, Franco Fummi, Enrico Macii, Massimo Poncino, Donatella Sciuto · 1998
This paper presents a methodology for power estimation of designs described at the behavioral-level as the interconnection of functional modules. The input/output behavior of each module is implicitly stored using BDDs, and the power consumedby the network is estimated using a novel and accurate entropy-based approach. As a demonstration example, we have used the proposedpower estimation technique to evaluate and compare the effects of some architectural transformations appliedtoa reference design specification on the power dissipation of the corresponding implementations.