Maximum power estimation for CMOS combinational circuits based on genetic-simulated annealing algorithm
Yan Xiaolang · Journal of Circuits and Systems · 2005
Maximum power estimation is a NP-hard problem. An approach was presented to search for optimal solution quickly in whole solution space, and to obtain an accurate lower bound of the maximum power consumption using GSAA (genetic-simulated annealing algorithm). The experiments show that the approach generates the lower bound with the better quality than GA, improves the convergence acceleration, saves the computation time and is more suitable for estimating the power dissipation of large scale design.