signal strength based switching activity modeling and estimation for dsp applications基于信号强度的dsp应用程序切换活动建模和估计.pdfVIP

VLSI DESIGN (C) 2001 OPA (Overseas Publishers Association) N.V. 2001, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 233-243 Published by license under Reprints available directly from the publisher the Gordon and Breach Science Photocopying permitted by license only Publishers imprint. Signal Strength Based Switching Activity Modeling and Estimation DSP Applications* LIH-YIH CHIOUa’t, KHURRAM MUHAMMANDb’* and KAUSHIK ROYa’ aSchool ofElectrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA; bTexas Instruments, Dallas, TX 75243, USA (Received20 June 2000; In finalform 3 August 2000) We present an effective switching activity modeling and estimation technique for components under resource sharing. The model uses word-level signal statistics to generate a single parameter, called signal strength. By using the signal strength, we can construct power models for the both cases of sharing and non-sharing of computing resources. The model enables us to effectively estimate switching activity at higher level of design abstraction. We have conducted several experiments using both synthetic and real data to evaluate our method. We have compared competing architectures for their relative power consumption for different components. The results show that average difference between the proposed meth