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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Field-Programmable Technology, 2002. (FPT). Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7574-2
DOI :
10.1109/FPT.2002.1188730
