Title
TLM POWER3: Power estimation methodology for SystemC TLM 2.0.
Abstract
We report on a SystemC add-on library which extends every SystemC module with non-functional data regarding power consumption and physical layout and which accumulates and estimates dynamic energy usage. It supports both phase/mode power modelling and energy-per-transaction logging for TLM (transactional-level modelling). Wiring energy is computed by counting bit-level activity within the TLM generic payload. Each leaf component can also register its physical dimensions to facilitate a wire length estimator that traverses the SystemC model hierarchy using either full placement or Rent's rule estimators. It also supports dynamic voltage islands and inter-chip wiring, where each transaction can consume energy according to the current supply voltage of the relevant islands and the nature of the interconnect. We report on basic performance from some SPLASH-2 benchmarks running on a modelled OpenRISC quad-core platform.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-319-01418-0_4
Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
reduced instruction set computing,computational modeling,payloads,electronic design automation
OpenRISC,Computer science,Voltage,SystemC,Reduced instruction set computing,Electronic design automation,Interconnection,Embedded system,Payload,Estimator
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
265
1876-1100
13
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.92
9
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David J. Greaves112430.48
Mehboob Yasin2131.60