System-level power and thermal modeling and analysis by orthogonal polynomial based response surface approach (OPRS)

This paper proposes a new statistical response surface based power estimation technique. The new approach is able to include a number of parameters such as multiple Vdd, multiple Vth and gate sizing parameters. It has both deterministic ability and statistical ability. The deterministic ability allows the new model to provide optimal design parameters for power reduction. The statistical ability can be used to model the process variation impact on power.