A High Level SoC Energy Analysis Method with Good Accuracy Using Cycle Accurate Simulation

Ana Belen Abril Garcia (1) , Habib Mehrez (1) , Frédéric Pétrot (2) , Jean Gobert (3) , Carolina Miro (3)

1 CIAN - Circuits Intégrés Numériques et Analogiques
2 TIMA - Techniques de l'Informatique et de la Microélectronique pour l'Architecture des systèmes intégrés
3 Philips Digital Systems Laboratory

This paper presents a method for energy consumption estimation and optimisation on hardware-software embedded systems-on-chip using cycle-accurate simulation.

Mots clés: MPEG-4 decoding; cycle accurate simulation; power consumption estimation

Domaines: Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique

Ana Belen Abril Garcia, Habib Mehrez, Frédéric Pétrot, Jean Gobert, Carolina Miro. A High Level SoC Energy Analysis Method with Good Accuracy Using Cycle Accurate Simulation. IEEE Symposium on low power and high-speed chips (COOL Chips VIII), Apr 2005, Yokohama, Japan. pp.195. ⟨hal-00105834⟩