Title :
Power-Management Specification in SystemC
Author :
Macko, Dominik ; Jelemenska, Katarina ; Cicak, Pavel
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Inf. & Inf. Technol., Slovak Univ. of Technol., Bratislava, Slovakia
Abstract :
Power consumption is the greatest concern in current highly-integrated hardware-system design. The power reduction is targeted mostly through power management, implementing such techniques as clock gating, power gating, or voltage and frequency scaling. Due to growing complexity, the start-point in the design has moved from the register-transfer level to the system level. However, the power management lacks the abstraction needed for the system level. Also, different power-management techniques are specified differently, complicating the specification even more. This paper targets the unified specification of power-management techniques early in the design flow. SystemC is used for describing the system functionality along with the power management. Efficiency of the proposed approach is illustrated by comparison of the unified power-management specification and the standardized approach.
Keywords :
electronic engineering computing; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit interconnections; power consumption; SystemC; clock gating; frequency scaling; highly-integrated hardware-system design; power consumption; power gating; power reduction; power-management specification; register-transfer level design; system level design; voltage scaling; Clocks; Computational modeling; Estimation; Hardware design languages; Libraries; Logic gates; Switches; design; low power; power control; power management; power reduction; system level;
Conference_Titel :
Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits & Systems (DDECS), 2015 IEEE 18th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Belgrade
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-6779-7
DOI :
10.1109/DDECS.2015.16
