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20th International Conference on VLSI Design held jointly with 6th International Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSID'07)
STEFAL: A System Level Temperature- and Floorplan-Aware Leakage Power Estimator for SoCs
Bangalore, India
January 06-January 10
ISBN: 0-7695-2762-0
Aseem Gupta, University of California, Irvine
Nikil D. Dutt, University of California, Irvine
Fadi J. Kurdahi, University of California, Irvine
Kamal S. Khouri, Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Austin, TX
Magdy S. Abadir, Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Austin, TX
In this paper we demonstrate the impact of the floorplan on the temperature-dependent leakage power of a System on Chip (SoC). We propose a novel system level temperature aware and floorplan aware leakage power estimator, STEFAL, which considers both the floorplan of the SoC and the cycle-by-cycle dynamic power behavior while estimating the leakage power. We implemented our estimation methodology on ten industrial SoC designs from Freescale Semiconductor Inc. and observed up to a 190% difference in the leakage power between various floorplans, clearly showing the importance of considering the floorplans and the temperature profile during leakage power estimation.
Citation:
Aseem Gupta, Nikil D. Dutt, Fadi J. Kurdahi, Kamal S. Khouri, Magdy S. Abadir, "STEFAL: A System Level Temperature- and Floorplan-Aware Leakage Power Estimator for SoCs," vlsid, pp.559-564, 20th International Conference on VLSI Design held jointly with 6th International Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSID'07), 2007
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