Title :
Estimation of inertial-delay dependent switching activities by using time-stamped transition density
Author :
Choi, Hoon ; Yi, Ju Hwan ; Hwang, Seung Ho
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Taejon, South Korea
Abstract :
We propose a new method to improve the accuracy of the transition density for the estimation of inertial-delay dependent switching activities in combinational circuits. The previous methods have used the same technique that is commonly used in logic simulators to filter out unacceptably short logic pulses. However, they underestimated the difference between probabilistic property of the transition density and the deterministic property of signals in logic simulations. We, for the first time in our knowledge, describe the problems of the previous methods and propose a new method to overcome them. It is based on the time-stamped transition density and a new formula considering inertial-delay effect in the probabilistic domain. The experimental results demonstrate the validity of our proposed method
Keywords :
combinational circuits; delays; logic design; combinational circuit; deterministic property; inertial delay; logic simulation; probabilistic property; switching activity; time-stamped transition density; Circuit simulation; Circuits and systems; Combinational circuits; Delay effects; Delay estimation; Energy consumption; Filters; Probabilistic logic; Switching circuits; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 1997. ISCAS '97., Proceedings of 1997 IEEE International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3583-X
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.1997.621419