STEFAL: A System Level Temperature- and Floorplan-Aware Leakage Power Estimator for SoCs

In this paper the authors demonstrate the impact of the floorplan on the temperature-dependent leakage power of a system on chip (SoC). We propose a novel system level temperature aware and floorplan aware leakage power estimator, STEFAL, which considers both the floorplan of the SoC and the cycle-by-cycle dynamic power behavior while estimating the leakage power. The authors implemented our estimation methodology on ten industrial SoC designs from Freescale Semiconductor Inc. and observed up to a 190% difference in the leakage power between various floorplans, clearly showing the importance of considering the floorplans and the temperature profile during leakage power estimation