• DocumentCode
    3319380
  • Title

    Sensitivity of FPGA power evaluation

  • Author

    Poon, Kara K W ; Wilton, Steven J E

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., British Columbia Univ., Canada
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    16-18 Dec. 2002
  • Firstpage
    441
  • Lastpage
    442
  • Abstract
    Power dissipation is becoming a major concern among FPGA vendors. Recently, architectural studies have been published which attempt to quantify the effects of various architectural alternatives on the power dissipation of FPGAs. These studies are very sensitive to assumptions made during the experimentation. In this paper, we analyze the sensitivity of two of these assumptions: the primary input density and the routing algorithm. We show that both of these assumptions significantly impact the architectural results.
  • Keywords
    field programmable gate arrays; low-power electronics; network routing; sensitivity analysis; FPGA power estimation tool; FPGA power evaluation; input transition density; power dissipation; power-efficient FPGA architecture; primary input density; routing algorithm; sensitivity analysis; Clocks; Field programmable gate arrays; Frequency; Logic; Power dissipation; Power engineering computing; Routing; Sensitivity analysis; Switches; Switching circuits;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Field-Programmable Technology, 2002. (FPT). Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7574-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/FPT.2002.1188730
  • Filename
    1188730