System level power modeling of reconfigurable processor using the least square method

In this work, a power modeling methodology for reconfigurable processor at electronic system level (ESL) is introduced. According to the architecture features of reconfigurable processor, the power characteristic parameters are extracted. With these parameters, an accurate and fast power model is created by minimizing of the mean square error. This power model is then embedded into commercial ESL simulation platform. The experimental results at ESL simulation show that the maximum error is less than 10%, while the speed up can be up to 5433X compared with the gate-level simulation.