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Power Macro-Modelling for Firm-Macro

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An approach for power modelling of parameterized, technology independent design components (firm-macros) is presented. Executable simulation models in form of C++ classes are generated by a systematic procedure that is based on statistical modelling and table look-up techniques. In contrast to other table look-up based approaches the proposed model separately handles the inputs of a component, and with this it allows to model the effects of corresponding joint-dependencies. In addition, a technique for the generation of executable models is presented. The generated models are optimized with respect to simulation performance and can be applied for power analysis and optimization tasks on the behavioral and architectural level. Results are presented for a number of test cases which show the good quality of the model.

This work is founded by the BMBF project EURIPIDES under grant number 01M3036G. and by the Commission of the European Community as part of the ESPRIT IV programme under contract no. 26796

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  1. OFFIS Research Institute, Oldenburg

    Gerd Jochens, Lars Kruse, Eike Schmidt, Ansgar Stammermann & Wolfgang Nebel

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  1. Dept.of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, 67100, Xanthi, Greece

    Dimitrios Soudris

  2. Institute for Communication Theory and Signal Processing, University of Hanover, Appelstr.4, 30167, Hanover, Germany

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  3. Institute for Microelectronic Systems, University of Hanover, Appelstr.4, 30167, Hanover, Germany

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Jochens, G., Kruse, L., Schmidt, E., Stammermann, A., Nebel, W. (2000). Power Macro-Modelling for Firm-Macro. In: Soudris, D., Pirsch, P., Barke, E. (eds) Integrated Circuit Design. PATMOS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1918. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45373-3_4

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