Pre-route power analysis techniques for SoC
This paper proposes two techniques for improving the accuracy of gate-level power analysis for system-on-a-chip (SoC). (1) Creation of custom wire load models for clock nets (2) Use of layout information (actual net capacitance and input signal transition time) The analysis time is reduced to less than one three-hundredth of the transistor-level power analysis time. Error is within 5% against a real chip, (the same level as that of the transistor-level power analysis), if technique (2) is used, and within 15% if technique (1) is used.
power analysis soc gate-level custom wire load model