In order to estimate circuit power at the early design stage,a rapid analysis method is presented to calculate the RTL power of combinational modules.By building the power library with Monte Carlo simulation,the powe...In order to estimate circuit power at the early design stage,a rapid analysis method is presented to calculate the RTL power of combinational modules.By building the power library with Monte Carlo simulation,the power dissipation of a certain module of any input vector can be obtained.This method uses Taylor's expansion to establish an equation based model.The simulation results for ISCAS85 circuit show that the method has error within 5%.展开更多
With the scale of integration and operation speed of modern ICs increasing,a series of thermo-related problems arise.Hot spots,which are due to the uneven distribution of heat,invalidate some functions of the chip.An ...With the scale of integration and operation speed of modern ICs increasing,a series of thermo-related problems arise.Hot spots,which are due to the uneven distribution of heat,invalidate some functions of the chip.An algorithm is presented to calculate the profile.With the boundary element method,3D problems are converted into 2D ones,so the temperatures of both the chip surface and inner points can be calculated quickly.This algorithm can be used to evaluate the thermal quality of a definite chip.展开更多
文摘In order to estimate circuit power at the early design stage,a rapid analysis method is presented to calculate the RTL power of combinational modules.By building the power library with Monte Carlo simulation,the power dissipation of a certain module of any input vector can be obtained.This method uses Taylor's expansion to establish an equation based model.The simulation results for ISCAS85 circuit show that the method has error within 5%.
文摘With the scale of integration and operation speed of modern ICs increasing,a series of thermo-related problems arise.Hot spots,which are due to the uneven distribution of heat,invalidate some functions of the chip.An algorithm is presented to calculate the profile.With the boundary element method,3D problems are converted into 2D ones,so the temperatures of both the chip surface and inner points can be calculated quickly.This algorithm can be used to evaluate the thermal quality of a definite chip.
