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
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