Sixth International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design (ISQED'05)
Early Assessment of Leakage Power for System Level Design
San Jose, California
March 21-March 23
ISBN: 0-7695-2301-3
This paper presents a system level methodology for analyzing leakage power in the early stages of a system design. The assessment of leakage takes into accounts the simultaneous effect of threshold-voltage (Vt), oxide thickness (tox), device width (W), the inputs applied and statistical process variations. The approach has been validated by applying it to the design of a digital signal processing system. The results indicate that our power estimation technique is within 10% of SPICE, with the benefit of executing 15X faster.
Citation:
C. Talarico, B. Pillilli, K. L. Vakati, J. M. Wang, "Early Assessment of Leakage Power for System Level Design," isqed, pp.133-136, Sixth International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design (ISQED'05), 2005