Patent ID: 9424381
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for generating a power model for a device, the method comprising: identifying a device-level set of power contributors for a given state of the device that is incompletely specified, wherein each power contributor in the device-level set of power contributors contributes to power dissipation when the device is in the given state; and generating the power model for the device based on the device-level set of power contributors, wherein identifying the device-level set of power contributors for a given state of the device further comprises: determining states of a set of constituent cells of the device; determining, for each of the constituent cells, a cell-level set of power contributors that contribute to power dissipation when the constituent cells are in the states, wherein the device-level set of power contributors aggregates the cell-level set of power contributors for all of the constituent cells, the states of the constituent cells comprise, for each of the constituent cells, a plurality of states associated with a plurality of probabilities, and the states of at least some of the constituent cells are determined using a random simulation technique.