2007 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
Runtime leakage power estimation technique for combinational circuits
Yokohama
January 23-January 26
ISBN: 1-4244-0629-3
This paper carefully examines subthreshold leakage during circuit operation (runtime) and develops a novel analysis technique to capture this important effect, which is currently ignored in traditional steady-state leakage calculation approaches. We implement novel dynamic and static estimation methods that provide significant speed improvements over full SPICE simulations and yield estimation errors of approximately 12% on average compared to more than 2times errors in steady-state based subthreshold leakage analysis.
Index Terms:
subthreshold leakage analysis, runtime leakage power estimation technique, combinational circuits, dynamic estimation methods, static estimation methods, SPICE simulations, error estimation
Citation:
null Yu-Shiang Lin, D. Sylvester, "Runtime leakage power estimation technique for combinational circuits," asp-dac, pp.660-665, 2007 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, 2007