Peak power estimation of VLSI circuits: new peak power measures

摘要

New measures of peak power are proposed in the context ofnsequential circuits, and an efficient automatic procedure is presentednto obtain very good lower bounds on these measures, as well as providingnthe actual input vectors that attain such bounds. Automatic generationnof a functional vector loop for near-worst case power consumption isnalso attained. Experiments show that vector sequences generated givenmuch more accurate estimates of peak power dissipation and are generatednin significantly shorter execution times than estimates made fromnrandomly generated sequences for four delay models