AOP-based high-level power estimation in SystemC

Liu, Feng; Tan, Qingping; Song, Xiaoyu; Abbasi, Naeem

doi:10.1145/1785481.1785562

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“… As SystemC designs usually focus on a system's structure and behavior (especially in their early stages of development), concerns, such as power estimation, are usually ignored at first and hard to add later on. AOP provides an easy way to add the needed code for power estimation throughout a design, adding the code that implements the corresponding power model once the structural and functional description is done without the need for any heavy refactoring [ 31 ]. …”

Section: Aspect-oriented Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Analyzing SystemC Designs: SystemC Analysis Approaches for Varying Applications

Stoppe

Drechsler

2015

Sensors

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The complexity of hardware designs is still increasing according to Moore's law. With embedded systems being more and more intertwined and working together not only with each other, but also with their environments as cyber physical systems (CPSs), more streamlined development workflows are employed to handle the increasing complexity during a system's design phase. SystemC is a C++ library for the design of hardware/software systems, enabling the designer to quickly prototype, e.g., a distributed CPS without having to decide about particular implementation details (such as whether to implement a feature in hardware or in software) early in the design process. Thereby, this approach reduces the initial implementation's complexity by offering an abstract layer with which to build a working prototype. However, as SystemC is based on C++, analyzing designs becomes a difficult task due to the complex language features that are available to the designer. Several fundamentally different approaches for analyzing SystemC designs have been suggested. This work illustrates several different SystemC analysis approaches, including their specific advantages and shortcomings, allowing designers to pick the right tools to assist them with a specific problem during the design of a system using SystemC.

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Section: Aspect-oriented Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Analyzing SystemC Designs: SystemC Analysis Approaches for Varying Applications

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Drechsler

2015

Sensors

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“…The tradeoff is between speed and accuracy. Liu et al (2010) use aspect oriented programming concepts in SystemC for power estimation. An aspect oriented programming style proposes to divide a program into two parts.…”

Section: Api Based Approachesmentioning

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Processor power estimation techniques: a survey

Sultan¹,

Ananthanarayanan²,

Sarangi³

2014

IJHPSA

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Since the end of the nineties, power dissipation has been regarded as a first order design constraint in processors. Increased power dissipation along with the resultant rise in die temperature is considered as the single largest bottleneck for increasing processor frequency and complexity. Consequently, it is very important from both a technical as well as commercial perspective to accurately estimate processor power such that designers can tailor their architecture, software and systems to minimize power consumption. In this paper, we provide a survey of most of the processor specific power estimation techniques proposed after the mid nineties. In specific, we look at estimating power both at design time as well as runtime. The former approach is more suitable for early stage architectural exploration, and the latter approach is more germane to creating power efficient application software. We broadly focus on estimating power using system level models, architectural simulation, hardware performance counters, on-chip temperature profiles, and program execution profiles. We showcase a broad range of methods for power estimation using simulators, compilers, profilers, and sophisticated mathematical analysis routines.

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Aspect-oriented RTL HW design using SystemC

Mück

Fröhlich

2014

Microprocessors and Microsystems

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AOP-based high-level power estimation in SystemC

Cited by 6 publications

References 2 publications

Analyzing SystemC Designs: SystemC Analysis Approaches for Varying Applications

Analyzing SystemC Designs: SystemC Analysis Approaches for Varying Applications

Processor power estimation techniques: a survey

Aspect-oriented RTL HW design using SystemC

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