On Adapting Power Estimation Models for Embedded Soft-Core Processors

Author

De Holanda, José A. ; Assumpção, Jecel, Jr. ; Wolf, Denis F. ; Marques, Eduardo ; Cardoso, João M P

Author_Institution

Sao Paulo Univ., Sao Carlos

fYear

2007

fDate

4-6 July 2007

Firstpage

345

Lastpage

348

Abstract

The increasing use of battery-powered embedded systems has motivated the development of power consumption models in order to help designers to build low-power systems. Due to the configurability features of FPGAs, the adoption of systems containing one or more soft-core processors on a single chip is becoming more and more attractive. This paper presents an adaptation of the instruction-level power estimation model to soft-core processors implemented in FPGAs. This model allowed to estimate the power dissipated in eleven test applications with a maximum error of 4.78%. The Ongoing work includes efforts towards a software power estimation model for multi-core systems embedded in a single FPGA device.

Keywords

computer power supplies; embedded systems; field programmable gate arrays; microprocessor chips; FPGA; battery-powered embedded systems; embedded soft-core processors; instruction-level power estimation model; low-power systems; multicore embedded systems; power consumption model; software power estimation model; Circuits; Costs; Current measurement; Embedded computing; Embedded system; Energy consumption; Field programmable gate arrays; Power measurement; Power system modeling; Predictive models;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Embedded Systems, 2007. SIES '07. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0840-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0840-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIES.2007.4297358

Filename

4297358