The document discusses various simulation techniques used to estimate power dissipation at different levels of abstraction. It describes the tradeoff between computing resources and accuracy at different levels from algorithm to transistor level. SPICE circuit simulation provides the most accurate results but requires significant computing power. Higher levels of abstraction like gate level, switch level and architecture level analyses provide faster simulation speed at the cost of reduced accuracy. Power models are developed based on activities, component operations and data correlation to capture power at architecture level for large designs.
Probabilistic power analysis provides a computationally efficient alternative to traditional power analysis by modeling logic signals as random processes characterized by statistical parameters rather than exact signal values over time. The key parameters used are static probability, which is the probability a signal is at logic 1, and transition density, which is the number of signal transitions per unit time. These parameters can be propagated through a circuit based on Boolean logic to estimate power consumption without simulating every signal transition. While faster, probabilistic analysis loses some accuracy by ignoring signal correlations, glitches, and gate delays.
This document discusses Monte Carlo simulation techniques for power analysis of circuits. It explains that Monte Carlo simulation requires a large number of input vectors to accurately estimate power dissipation. The key points are:
- Monte Carlo simulation collects switching activity from many input vectors to apply to a power model.
- More input vectors lead to higher accuracy but diminishing returns. There is a point where additional vectors do not meaningfully improve accuracy.
- Statistical techniques can determine the optimal number of vectors needed to estimate power within a given error tolerance with a specific confidence level, such as 90%. This avoids wasting computation on unnecessary vectors.
The document provides an overview of various low power VLSI design techniques at the architectural level. It discusses dynamic voltage scaling, dynamic threshold voltage schemes like Vth-hopping and dynamic Vth scaling, microprocessor sleep modes, adaptive filtering, switching activity reduction using guarded evaluation, bus multiplexing, and parallel and pipelined architectures. It explains how these techniques can be used to reduce power consumption by decreasing voltage/frequency, turning off unused components, reducing switching activity, and improving throughput without increasing frequency.
Logic Level Techniques for Power Reduction GargiKhanna1
This document discusses various logic level techniques for low power VLSI design, including:
- Gate reorganization techniques like combining gates to reduce switching activity.
- Signal gating to block propagation of unwanted signals using AND/OR gates or latches.
- Logic encoding methods like gray code counting to reduce bit transitions.
- State machine encoding to lower expected bit transitions in the state register and outputs.
- Precomputation logic that disables inputs to combinational logic when output is invariant, reducing switching activity at the cost of increased area.
Routing in Integrated circuits is an important task which requires extreme care while placing the modules and circuits and connecting them with each other.
This document discusses power dissipation in CMOS circuits. It identifies the main sources of power dissipation as dynamic, static, and short circuit power. Dynamic power is caused by charging and discharging capacitors during switching and depends on activity factors, voltage, and frequency. Static power includes leakage currents that occur even when the device is inactive. Short circuit power arises when both NMOS and PMOS are on simultaneously during signal transitions. The document provides techniques for reducing each type of power dissipation such as lowering voltage, reducing switching activity, minimizing capacitance and transistor sizing.
Probabilistic power analysis provides a computationally efficient alternative to traditional power analysis by modeling logic signals as random processes characterized by statistical parameters rather than exact signal values over time. The key parameters used are static probability, which is the probability a signal is at logic 1, and transition density, which is the number of signal transitions per unit time. These parameters can be propagated through a circuit based on Boolean logic to estimate power consumption without simulating every signal transition. While faster, probabilistic analysis loses some accuracy by ignoring signal correlations, glitches, and gate delays.
This document discusses Monte Carlo simulation techniques for power analysis of circuits. It explains that Monte Carlo simulation requires a large number of input vectors to accurately estimate power dissipation. The key points are:
- Monte Carlo simulation collects switching activity from many input vectors to apply to a power model.
- More input vectors lead to higher accuracy but diminishing returns. There is a point where additional vectors do not meaningfully improve accuracy.
- Statistical techniques can determine the optimal number of vectors needed to estimate power within a given error tolerance with a specific confidence level, such as 90%. This avoids wasting computation on unnecessary vectors.
The document provides an overview of various low power VLSI design techniques at the architectural level. It discusses dynamic voltage scaling, dynamic threshold voltage schemes like Vth-hopping and dynamic Vth scaling, microprocessor sleep modes, adaptive filtering, switching activity reduction using guarded evaluation, bus multiplexing, and parallel and pipelined architectures. It explains how these techniques can be used to reduce power consumption by decreasing voltage/frequency, turning off unused components, reducing switching activity, and improving throughput without increasing frequency.
Logic Level Techniques for Power Reduction GargiKhanna1
This document discusses various logic level techniques for low power VLSI design, including:
- Gate reorganization techniques like combining gates to reduce switching activity.
- Signal gating to block propagation of unwanted signals using AND/OR gates or latches.
- Logic encoding methods like gray code counting to reduce bit transitions.
- State machine encoding to lower expected bit transitions in the state register and outputs.
- Precomputation logic that disables inputs to combinational logic when output is invariant, reducing switching activity at the cost of increased area.
Routing in Integrated circuits is an important task which requires extreme care while placing the modules and circuits and connecting them with each other.
This document discusses power dissipation in CMOS circuits. It identifies the main sources of power dissipation as dynamic, static, and short circuit power. Dynamic power is caused by charging and discharging capacitors during switching and depends on activity factors, voltage, and frequency. Static power includes leakage currents that occur even when the device is inactive. Short circuit power arises when both NMOS and PMOS are on simultaneously during signal transitions. The document provides techniques for reducing each type of power dissipation such as lowering voltage, reducing switching activity, minimizing capacitance and transistor sizing.
VLSI power estimation is vital component of the modern electronic designs. Rapid changes in the advanced electronic infrastructure may causes the power to become paramount important in the VLSI designs.
Low power VLSI design has become an important discipline due to increasing device densities, operating frequencies, and proliferation of portable electronics. Power dissipation, which was previously neglected, is now a primary design constraint. There are several sources of power dissipation in CMOS circuits, including switching power due to charging and discharging capacitances, short-circuit power during signal transitions, and leakage power from subthreshold and gate leakage currents. Designers have some control over power consumption by optimizing factors such as activity levels, clock frequency, supply voltage, transistor sizing and architecture.
Low Power VLSI design architecture for EDA (Electronic Design Automation) and Modern Power Estimation, Reduction and Fixing technologies including clock gating and power gating
This document discusses various low power techniques for integrated circuits. It begins by describing the increasing challenges of power consumption as device densities and clock frequencies increase while supply voltages and threshold voltages decrease. It then discusses different types of power consumption, including dynamic power, static power, leakage power from different sources, and how they can be reduced. The document covers many low power design techniques like multi-threshold CMOS, clock gating, multi-voltage, DVFS, and more. It discusses the evolution of these techniques and challenges in their implementation like timing issues, level shifters, and floorplanning for multi-voltage designs.
Power gating is the main power reduction techniques for the static power. As long as technology scaling is taking place, static power becomes paramount important factor to the VLSI designs.Therefore Power gating is the recent power reduction technique that is actively in research areas.
Logic synthesis is the process of converting a high-level design description into an optimized gate-level representation using a standard cell library and design constraints. The process involves translating the RTL description into an unoptimized internal representation, optimizing the logic, technology mapping, and producing an optimized gate-level netlist. An example logic synthesis flow is described for a 4-bit magnitude comparator design from RTL to optimized gates.
This document compares the use of complementary pass-transistor logic (CPL) to conventional CMOS design. CPL uses fewer transistors than CMOS gates, has smaller capacitances, and is faster. A 2:1 multiplexer is designed using both CMOS and CPL in Microwind and DSCH2 layout tools. Simulation results show the CPL multiplexer has lower power consumption, smaller area, faster rise/fall delays compared to the CMOS multiplexer. Therefore, CPL offers advantages over conventional CMOS in terms of speed, area, and power-delay products.
The document discusses power consumption in microprocessors and techniques for power reduction. It notes that dynamic power, which scales with the square of the supply voltage and operating frequency, makes up the majority of total power consumption. Clock circuitry alone can account for 15-45% of total power. Clock gating and data gating are introduced as approaches to reduce unnecessary switching activity and clock distribution by powering down unused modules. An example of applying clock gating at the architectural level is given to turn off parts of a processor's decode, execute, and load/store units to achieve considerable power reduction of up to 25%.
FPGA are a special form of Programmable logic devices(PLDs) with higher densities as compared to custom ICs and capable of implementing functionality in a short period of time using computer aided design (CAD) software....by mathewsubin3388@gmail.com
The document discusses the steps in the logic synthesis process from RTL to optimized gate-level netlist. It includes:
1) RTL description is converted to an internal representation
2) Logic is optimized to remove redundancy
3) Technology mapping implements the representation using cells from a technology library
The document also discusses floor planning, which determines routing areas by placing blocks/macros, and placement which places standard cells in rows to minimize area and interconnect cost.
This document discusses switch level modeling in Verilog. It describes different types of transistor switches that can be used as primitives in Verilog, including nmos, pmos, rnmos, rpmos, and cmos switches. It also covers bidirectional switches like tran, tranif1, and examples of how to use the switches to model basic logic gates and memory cells like a RAM cell. Time delays can be specified for switches. Switch level modeling allows designing circuits using transistors directly in Verilog.
This presentation gives an overview of FPGA devices. An FPGA is a device that contains a matrix of re-configurable gate array logic circuitry. When a FPGA is configured, the internal circuitry is connected in a way that creates a hardware implementation of the software application.
FPGA devices can deliver the performance and reliability of dedicated hardware circuitry.
The document discusses several challenges in embedded systems design. It notes that current scientific foundations separate hardware and software design paradigms in ways that make integrating computation and physical constraints difficult. Engineering practices also separate critical and best-effort design methods. The document argues that a successful approach to embedded systems design needs a mathematical basis that integrates abstract-machine and transfer-function models, allows combining critical and best-effort engineering, and encompasses heterogeneous components through constructs like compositionality and non-interference rules.
The document discusses circuit design processes and stick diagrams. It begins by introducing MOS layers and objectives of understanding stick diagrams, design rules, and layout. It then covers stick diagrams in depth, explaining that they show relative component placement and layer information through color codes as an interface between symbolic circuits and layouts. Examples of stick diagram rules, notations, and common MOS circuits are provided. Finally, it discusses design rules, explaining that they define feature sizes and spacings to interface between circuits and fabrication processes while allowing for manufacturing tolerances.
Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD) Architecture and Its Applicationselprocus
A CPLD (complex programmable logic device) chip includes several circuit blocks on a single chip with inside wiring resources to attach the circuit blocks. Each circuit block is comparable to a PLA or a PAL.
This document outlines the typical design flow for VLSI chips, including: 1) design specification, 2) design entry using schematics or HDL, 3) functional simulation to verify logic, 4) planning placement and routing of components, 5) timing simulation accounting for delays, and 6) fabrication of the final chip design either using full custom or semi-custom methods. The goal is to design and test a chip that meets the specified requirements before manufacturing.
This document discusses sequential circuits and their design. It covers:
1. The difference between combinational and sequential logic and examples like finite state machines and pipelines that require sequential logic.
2. Methods for sequencing tokens through pipelines using flip-flops, latches, and pulsed latches and the associated timing diagrams.
3. Design considerations for sequential circuits like max/min delays, time borrowing, and clock skew.
4. Circuit designs for various latches and flip-flops including transparent latches, CMOS transmission gate latches, dynamic flip-flops, and true single phase clock elements.
Real Time System Validation using Hardware in Loop (HIL) Digital PlatformSHIMI S L
Dr. Shimi S.L presents information on real time system validation using hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) digital platforms. HIL allows testing embedded systems by interacting them with simulated plant models in real time. This enables testing systems in unlimited scenarios without risks to actual hardware. Applications include controller design and testing, closed-loop testing of devices, SCADA systems studies, microgrid studies, and protection scheme design. DSpace and OPAL-RT are popular HIL platforms that interface simulated plant models with physical controllers using computation units and I/O interfaces. HIL provides an effective method for rigorous real-time testing of systems before deployment.
Implementation of CAN on FPGA for Security Evaluation PurposeIRJET Journal
This document describes the implementation of a Controller Area Network (CAN) bus on an FPGA for the purpose of evaluating security measures. It discusses how implementing CAN on an FPGA-based testbed allows for faster development and evaluation of cryptographic algorithms and other security primitives for securing CAN communications compared to using a real vehicle. The testbed design uses a Xilinx Zynq SoC with a modified OpenCores SJA1000 CAN controller in the programmable logic interfaced to a CAN transceiver. A Linux system is built on the processing system for application development and interfacing with the CAN controller to test security measures for the CAN bus.
VLSI power estimation is vital component of the modern electronic designs. Rapid changes in the advanced electronic infrastructure may causes the power to become paramount important in the VLSI designs.
Low power VLSI design has become an important discipline due to increasing device densities, operating frequencies, and proliferation of portable electronics. Power dissipation, which was previously neglected, is now a primary design constraint. There are several sources of power dissipation in CMOS circuits, including switching power due to charging and discharging capacitances, short-circuit power during signal transitions, and leakage power from subthreshold and gate leakage currents. Designers have some control over power consumption by optimizing factors such as activity levels, clock frequency, supply voltage, transistor sizing and architecture.
Low Power VLSI design architecture for EDA (Electronic Design Automation) and Modern Power Estimation, Reduction and Fixing technologies including clock gating and power gating
This document discusses various low power techniques for integrated circuits. It begins by describing the increasing challenges of power consumption as device densities and clock frequencies increase while supply voltages and threshold voltages decrease. It then discusses different types of power consumption, including dynamic power, static power, leakage power from different sources, and how they can be reduced. The document covers many low power design techniques like multi-threshold CMOS, clock gating, multi-voltage, DVFS, and more. It discusses the evolution of these techniques and challenges in their implementation like timing issues, level shifters, and floorplanning for multi-voltage designs.
Power gating is the main power reduction techniques for the static power. As long as technology scaling is taking place, static power becomes paramount important factor to the VLSI designs.Therefore Power gating is the recent power reduction technique that is actively in research areas.
Logic synthesis is the process of converting a high-level design description into an optimized gate-level representation using a standard cell library and design constraints. The process involves translating the RTL description into an unoptimized internal representation, optimizing the logic, technology mapping, and producing an optimized gate-level netlist. An example logic synthesis flow is described for a 4-bit magnitude comparator design from RTL to optimized gates.
This document compares the use of complementary pass-transistor logic (CPL) to conventional CMOS design. CPL uses fewer transistors than CMOS gates, has smaller capacitances, and is faster. A 2:1 multiplexer is designed using both CMOS and CPL in Microwind and DSCH2 layout tools. Simulation results show the CPL multiplexer has lower power consumption, smaller area, faster rise/fall delays compared to the CMOS multiplexer. Therefore, CPL offers advantages over conventional CMOS in terms of speed, area, and power-delay products.
The document discusses power consumption in microprocessors and techniques for power reduction. It notes that dynamic power, which scales with the square of the supply voltage and operating frequency, makes up the majority of total power consumption. Clock circuitry alone can account for 15-45% of total power. Clock gating and data gating are introduced as approaches to reduce unnecessary switching activity and clock distribution by powering down unused modules. An example of applying clock gating at the architectural level is given to turn off parts of a processor's decode, execute, and load/store units to achieve considerable power reduction of up to 25%.
FPGA are a special form of Programmable logic devices(PLDs) with higher densities as compared to custom ICs and capable of implementing functionality in a short period of time using computer aided design (CAD) software....by mathewsubin3388@gmail.com
The document discusses the steps in the logic synthesis process from RTL to optimized gate-level netlist. It includes:
1) RTL description is converted to an internal representation
2) Logic is optimized to remove redundancy
3) Technology mapping implements the representation using cells from a technology library
The document also discusses floor planning, which determines routing areas by placing blocks/macros, and placement which places standard cells in rows to minimize area and interconnect cost.
This document discusses switch level modeling in Verilog. It describes different types of transistor switches that can be used as primitives in Verilog, including nmos, pmos, rnmos, rpmos, and cmos switches. It also covers bidirectional switches like tran, tranif1, and examples of how to use the switches to model basic logic gates and memory cells like a RAM cell. Time delays can be specified for switches. Switch level modeling allows designing circuits using transistors directly in Verilog.
This presentation gives an overview of FPGA devices. An FPGA is a device that contains a matrix of re-configurable gate array logic circuitry. When a FPGA is configured, the internal circuitry is connected in a way that creates a hardware implementation of the software application.
FPGA devices can deliver the performance and reliability of dedicated hardware circuitry.
The document discusses several challenges in embedded systems design. It notes that current scientific foundations separate hardware and software design paradigms in ways that make integrating computation and physical constraints difficult. Engineering practices also separate critical and best-effort design methods. The document argues that a successful approach to embedded systems design needs a mathematical basis that integrates abstract-machine and transfer-function models, allows combining critical and best-effort engineering, and encompasses heterogeneous components through constructs like compositionality and non-interference rules.
The document discusses circuit design processes and stick diagrams. It begins by introducing MOS layers and objectives of understanding stick diagrams, design rules, and layout. It then covers stick diagrams in depth, explaining that they show relative component placement and layer information through color codes as an interface between symbolic circuits and layouts. Examples of stick diagram rules, notations, and common MOS circuits are provided. Finally, it discusses design rules, explaining that they define feature sizes and spacings to interface between circuits and fabrication processes while allowing for manufacturing tolerances.
Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD) Architecture and Its Applicationselprocus
A CPLD (complex programmable logic device) chip includes several circuit blocks on a single chip with inside wiring resources to attach the circuit blocks. Each circuit block is comparable to a PLA or a PAL.
This document outlines the typical design flow for VLSI chips, including: 1) design specification, 2) design entry using schematics or HDL, 3) functional simulation to verify logic, 4) planning placement and routing of components, 5) timing simulation accounting for delays, and 6) fabrication of the final chip design either using full custom or semi-custom methods. The goal is to design and test a chip that meets the specified requirements before manufacturing.
This document discusses sequential circuits and their design. It covers:
1. The difference between combinational and sequential logic and examples like finite state machines and pipelines that require sequential logic.
2. Methods for sequencing tokens through pipelines using flip-flops, latches, and pulsed latches and the associated timing diagrams.
3. Design considerations for sequential circuits like max/min delays, time borrowing, and clock skew.
4. Circuit designs for various latches and flip-flops including transparent latches, CMOS transmission gate latches, dynamic flip-flops, and true single phase clock elements.
Real Time System Validation using Hardware in Loop (HIL) Digital PlatformSHIMI S L
Dr. Shimi S.L presents information on real time system validation using hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) digital platforms. HIL allows testing embedded systems by interacting them with simulated plant models in real time. This enables testing systems in unlimited scenarios without risks to actual hardware. Applications include controller design and testing, closed-loop testing of devices, SCADA systems studies, microgrid studies, and protection scheme design. DSpace and OPAL-RT are popular HIL platforms that interface simulated plant models with physical controllers using computation units and I/O interfaces. HIL provides an effective method for rigorous real-time testing of systems before deployment.
Implementation of CAN on FPGA for Security Evaluation PurposeIRJET Journal
This document describes the implementation of a Controller Area Network (CAN) bus on an FPGA for the purpose of evaluating security measures. It discusses how implementing CAN on an FPGA-based testbed allows for faster development and evaluation of cryptographic algorithms and other security primitives for securing CAN communications compared to using a real vehicle. The testbed design uses a Xilinx Zynq SoC with a modified OpenCores SJA1000 CAN controller in the programmable logic interfaced to a CAN transceiver. A Linux system is built on the processing system for application development and interfacing with the CAN controller to test security measures for the CAN bus.
This document describes SysML-Companion, a tool that automatically generates simulatable and analyzable models from SysML specifications. It allows engineers to create a single SysML model as a common repository, then perform virtual prototyping and testing through simulation and hardware-in-the-loop testing. The document provides an example of using SysML-Companion to model and simulate a simple circuit containing both digital and analog components. Key benefits include enabling early testing, reducing prototype costs, and shortening time to market.
An FPGA is described as a reconfigurable integrated circuit containing an array of logic blocks and programmable interconnects. The document discusses an FPGA's architecture, including configurable logic blocks and routing resources. It also provides VHDL code for an 8-bit ALU implementation on an FPGA, including a process to handle data display on an LCD screen.
1) The document describes a system for monitoring and controlling a petrol pumping process using an FPGA platform. Smart sensors are installed on the pumping pipes to monitor temperature, pressure, and flow rate.
2) The FPGA receives data from the sensors through a data acquisition interface. It analyzes the data and controls the pumping machine speed accordingly. If sensor values are normal, it runs a standard pumping subroutine. If values are abnormal, it runs emergency subroutines to slow or shut down the pump.
3) The system was tested under different conditions and responded appropriately based on sensor data, demonstrating it can provide real-time monitoring and control for safe petrol pumping. The FPGA was determined to be a suitable
Design & implementation of 16 bit low power ALU with clock gatingIRJET Journal
This document describes the design and implementation of a low power 16-bit arithmetic logic unit (ALU) using clock gating. Clock gating is used to selectively clock only the active modules of the ALU, reducing dynamic power consumption by an estimated 66.7%. The ALU uses a variable block length carry skip adder for arithmetic operations and supports logic operations. It is implemented in VHDL and synthesized on a Xilinx Spartan 3E FPGA, achieving a maximum frequency of 65.19MHz with reduced power consumption compared to a non-clock gated design. Clock gating selectively activates either the arithmetic or logic units using control signals to reduce unnecessary switching activity and lower dynamic power dissipation.
Clock gating is an effective method of reducing the dynamic power consumption in synchronous circuits.
One of the ways to achieve this is by masking the clock that goes to the idle portion of the circuit. In This paper
we will present a comparative analysis of existing clock gating techniques on some synchronous digital design
like ALU (Arithmetic logical unit) etc. Also a new clock gating technique that provides more immunity to the
existing problem in available technique. In new proposed clock gating the Gated Clock Generation Circuit is using
tri state buffer and Gated logic is used which is created by the combination of double gated (AND, OR, AND
logic gate) with bubbled input respectively. This circuit saves power even when Target device's clock is ON. All
experiments are done on Xilinx14.1 EDA tool. Mentor Graphics Model SIM. For power calculation we are using
XPOWER. Sparten-3 (90nm) FPGA platform is used for result and analysis. The proposed design will reduce the
hardware complexity with approximately 10-20%. Similar clock power complexity will reduce with 5-10%.
Keywords — Tri state buffer; VLSI; Xilinx; glitches; hazards;Sparten.
This document summarizes a seminar presentation on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) given by Saransh Choudhary. The presentation covered the introduction, architecture, applications and conclusion of FPGAs. It discussed the components of an FPGA including configurable logic blocks, input/output blocks and programmable interconnects. A case study demonstrated how FPGAs can efficiently implement Monte Carlo option pricing simulations. Applications mentioned included digital signal processing, image processing, radar systems and supercomputers.
This document provides an overview of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and programmable automation controllers (PACs). It defines PLCs, PACs, and PC-based control systems. The advantages of PLC/PAC control systems are described, including increased reliability, flexibility, lower costs, communications capabilities, faster response time, and easier troubleshooting compared to electromechanical relay-based control. The document discusses PLC/PAC programming languages like relay ladder logic and the modular hardware components of PLC/PAC systems, including the rack/backplane, power supply, processor, I/O modules, and communications connections.
This document discusses using real-time simulation with FPGA-based hardware to model renewable energy systems. It describes challenges in modeling electric drives, modular multilevel converters, microgrids, and other renewable energy technologies. The document introduces OPAL-RT's eHS solution for modeling power electronics circuits on FPGAs for real-time simulation. eHS allows generating circuit models automatically without programming FPGAs directly. Examples are presented showing an eHS model of a PV system connected to the grid running in real-time on an FPGA. Real-time FPGA simulation provides benefits over CPU simulation like higher resolution, lower latency, and specialized models.
This document discusses various digital circuit implementation approaches including full-custom design, semi-custom design using standard cells, and programmable logic approaches using PLAs, PALs, FPGAs, and CPLDs. Full-custom design allows maximum optimization but requires significant design effort. Semi-custom uses pre-defined cells and automation to reduce effort. Programmable logic allows late-binding implementation through configurable interconnects.
This document describes the design of a PLC-based smart lifting system using pneumatic components. The system uses a PLC as the main controller along with pneumatic actuators powered by an air compressor. It is configured to pick up and place objects at specified heights according to the object's detected height. The design includes modules for feeding, height detection, and robotic arm functions. Ladder logic programming was used to program the PLC and provide real-time monitoring of the system. The implemented design was demonstrated and shown to successfully detect object heights and control the lifting and placing of objects through three degrees of freedom.
Research Inventy: International Journal of Engineering and Scienceresearchinventy
This document describes a system on chip (SOC) architecture used in an industrial control system for a hydraulic damper test bench. The system uses a 32-bit ARM920T microcontroller as the digital controller. It interfaces with sensors, actuators, and other peripherals on a single printed circuit board. Software is developed in LabVIEW to implement PID control of the hydraulic damper testing process. Simulation results showed that the ARM920T-based electronic module provided more effective, lower cost and higher accuracy control compared to previous mechanical systems.
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This document describes a system on chip (SOC) architecture used in an industrial control system for a hydraulic damper test bench. The system uses a 32-bit ARM920T microcontroller as the digital controller. It interfaces with sensors, actuators, and other peripherals on a single printed circuit board. Software is developed in LabVIEW to implement PID control of the hydraulic damper testing process. Simulation results showed that the ARM920T-based electronic module provided more effective, lower cost and higher accuracy control compared to previous mechanical systems.
Implementation of T-Junction Traffic Light Control System Using Simatic S7-20...IJERA Editor
A conventional traffic light control system is designed by using devices such as timers, relays and
contactors etc. The critical timing operation is required to be carried out under the existence of heavy
traffic situations. This conventional practice leads to many problems that need additional maintenance
cost and subsequent delay for a long time. With the help of a PLC, the requirement of fast automation
and effective optimization of traffic light control system can be achieved. Use of PLC helps us to
develop this process not only for traffic signal on the roads, but also on the movement of trains and
the transfer of containers in ports in maritime works. In order to provide a solution to the above
problem, this paper introduces an execution and implementation of T-junction traffic control system
using SEIMENS S7-200 PLC. Programming in PLC is written in ladder logic with the help of STEP7
MICROWIN software
This document summarizes a paper that designed and implemented fuzzy logic controllers for DC motor speed control using MATLAB-GUI. The authors developed hardware to interface a DC motor with a computer. They designed fuzzy logic controllers and integrated fuzzy logic controllers in MATLAB to control the motor speed. The MATLAB GUI allows tuning controller parameters in real-time and observing the motor performance. Experimental results showed the integrated fuzzy logic controller provided better performance than the fuzzy logic controller in terms of rise time, settling time, overshoot and undershoot for speed control applications.
CodeWarrior, Linux; OrCad and Hyperlynx; QMS Toolsdjerrybellott
This document describes the configuration of a Freescale 8313RDB board with a PowerQuicII 8313 processor running Linux. It includes the configuration file contents which set memory window addresses and DDR controller registers to interface external memory. It also describes using U-Boot to load Linux and the Codewarrior IDE to compile and download programs to the board.
Program, Code of Program and Screen Shot of Output (UNIVERSAL DRIVER USING µ...Er. Ashish Pandey
The document describes a program for a universal motor driver using a P89C51 microcontroller. It can control AC and DC motors by varying the pulse width modulation (PWM) of the TRIAC for AC motors and switching relays for DC motor voltage levels. The program uses timers and interrupts to generate the PWM and reads inputs to control motor speed and select motor type/voltage. Screenshots show the operating scheme and motor control via keypad input to the serial port.
RT15 Berkeley | Introduction to FPGA Power Electronic & Electric Machine real...OPAL-RT TECHNOLOGIES
FPGA simulation provides high-fidelity models for hardware-in-the-loop testing of electric machines and power electronics. It allows control algorithms to be tested with highly resolved non-ideal behaviors faster and at lower cost compared to physical testing. The document discusses how eFPGAsim utilizes FPGA technologies to simulate electric drive systems with models exported from finite element analysis, improving collaboration between design and control engineers.
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The document discusses latches and flip-flops. It describes how a latch stores a data value and is non-volatile, while a flip-flop is built from two back-to-back latches clocked on opposite phases. Various latch and flip-flop circuit designs are presented, including pass transistor, transmission gate, buffered input/output, and master-slave designs. Features like enables, resets, and sets are also discussed along with their synchronous and asynchronous implementations in flip-flops. Different flip-flop circuit styles are covered such as transmission gate, complementary CMOS, precharge, and self-gating designs.
NMOS, PMOS, and CMOS logic gates are implemented using MOSFET transistors.
NMOS logic uses n-type MOSFETs that have high resistance with low voltage and low resistance with high voltage. PMOS logic uses p-type MOSFETs that have the opposite behavior.
CMOS logic uses both n-type and p-type MOSFETs together to realize gates. When an input is low, the nMOS transistor stops current flow while the pMOS allows voltage through, giving a high output. This provides high noise immunity and low power consumption compared to NMOS and PMOS alone.
This document discusses asynchronous and synchronous counters. It provides examples of MOD-4, MOD-8, and MOD-6 asynchronous up counters using D flip-flops. It explains how synchronous counters use a common clock signal for all flip-flops. Examples are given for designing MOD-4 and MOD-4 synchronous up and down counters using JK flip-flops. The document also discusses asynchronous counter ICs and provides examples of MOD counters greater than a power of 2, such as MOD-9 and MOD-10, using T flip-flops.
Latch and flip flop circuits are used to store digital information. A latch can store a bit as long as power is applied, while a flip flop uses feedback to store a bit even after inputs change. There are different types of flip flops like SR, JK, D and T flip flops that store bits based on their input conditions and clock signal. Flip flops are edge triggered which means they change state only on rising or falling edge of the clock signal. This provides synchronization between logic and memory in digital circuits.
This document discusses multiplexers and demultiplexers. It defines them as digital switches that allow multiple inputs to be selected for a single output (multiplexer), or a single input to be routed to multiple outputs (demultiplexer). It provides examples of their applications and internal workings, including the relationship between the number of select lines and the number of inputs/outputs. Circuit diagrams and truth tables are presented to illustrate 4-to-1 multiplexers and 1-to-4 demultiplexers. Advantages of using multiplexers in logic design are also summarized.
The document discusses combinational logic circuits including:
1) Combinational logic circuits take inputs and provide outputs depending on the input combinations without any internal stored memory. The document discusses finding the number of inputs/outputs, writing truth tables, minimizing functions, and implementing circuits using logic gates.
2) Common combinational logic circuits are discussed including half adders, full adders, subtractors, comparators, and code converters. Truth tables and minimized logic expressions are provided for these circuits.
3) Implementation of combinational logic circuits using logic gates like AND, OR, NAND, NOR is explained. Examples of half adder, full adder, and code converter logic diagrams are also given.
This document discusses Karnaugh maps (K-maps), a method for simplifying Boolean algebra expressions. It begins by stating that K-maps allow for minimized results with less calculation compared to Boolean algebra alone. The document then covers the basics of K-maps, including how to represent different numbers of variables and the rules for grouping ones and zeros. It provides examples of using K-maps to minimize functions with 2 to 5 variables. Finally, it discusses extensions of K-maps, such as incorporating don't cares, using maxterms instead of minterms, and when the Quine-McCluskey method is preferable to K-maps for problems with many variables.
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Abstract
Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) helps to overcome various difficulties in future technology wireless communications. NOMA, when utilized with millimeter wave multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, channel estimation becomes extremely difficult. For reaping the benefits of the NOMA and mm-Wave combination, effective channel estimation is required. In this paper, we propose an enhanced particle swarm optimization based long short-term memory estimator network (PSOLSTMEstNet), which is a neural network model that can be employed to forecast the bandwidth required in the mm-Wave MIMO network. The prime advantage of the LSTM is that it has the capability of dynamically adapting to the functioning pattern of fluctuating channel state. The LSTM stage with adaptive coding and modulation enhances the BER.PSO algorithm is employed to optimize input weights of LSTM network. The modified algorithm splits the power by channel condition of every single user. Participants will be first sorted into distinct groups depending upon respective channel conditions, using a hybrid beamforming approach. The network characteristics are fine-estimated using PSO-LSTMEstNet after a rough approximation of channels parameters derived from the received data.
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Simulation power analysis low power vlsi
1. SIMULATION POWER ANALYSIS
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HAMIRPUR
Presented By
Dr. Gargi Khanna
Associate Professor
E&CED Dept. , NIT Hamirpur, HP.
2. INTRODUCTION
Simulation is….
Modeling of a design, its function and performance
Imitate the operation of a facility or process via
computer
is used to:
Verify the functionality and correctness of design
Estimate the performance (Speed , Power)
Verify the test
Estimation of cost
Reliability analysis.
To represent the system in software
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4. COMPUTING RESOURCES AND ANALYSIS ACCURACY AT
VARIOUS ABSTRACTION LEVELS
Abstraction level Computing
resources
Analysis accuracy
Algorithm Least Worst
Software & System
Hardware behavior
Register
transfer(RTL)/Function
Level
Logic
Circuit
Device Most Best
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the trade-off between computing
resources and accuracy of resource.
5. Simulation techniques to estimate and analyze
power dissipation of VLSI chips and the concept of
characterization will be emphasized.
Characterization refers to the process of using
lower level analysis results as a basis to construct
higher level power models.
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8. SPICE CIRCUIT SIMULATION
SPICE is the de facto power analysis tool at the circuit
level.
SPICE BASICS ::
SPICE operates by solving of nodal current using the
Kirchhoff's current law.
SPICE offers several analysis modes but the most
useful mode for digital IC power analysis is called
“transient analysis”.
SPICE device models are derived from a
characterization process.
The models are typically calibrated with physical
measurements taken from actual test chips and can
achieve a very high degree of accuracy.
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9. SPICE POWER ANALYSIS
The strongest advantage of SPICE is of cause its
accuracy. It can be used to estimate dynamic, static
& leakage power dissipation.
SPICE analysis requires intensive computation
resources and is thus not suitable for large circuits.
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10. DISCRETE TRANSISTOR
MODELLING & ANALYSIS
In SPICE, a transistor is modeled with a set of basic
components using mathematical equations.
Tabular Transistor Model
Transistor Switch Model
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11. Ids = f(Vgs , Vds)
= f( Vgs0 , Vds0) + ð ⁄ ðVgs f ( Vgs0 , Vds0)
(Vgs -Vgs0) + ð ⁄ ðVds f ( Vgs0 , Vds0)(Vds – Vds0)
In small signal model, the equation can be
simplified as
ids = i0 + gm vgs + rds
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12. TABULAR TRANSISTOR MODEL
Speed up computation.
The system was mainly designed for timing and
power analysis of digital circuits.
It applies the event-driven approach, in which an
event is registered when significant change in node
voltage occurs.
DC convergence problem
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13. TABULAR TRANSISTOR MODEL
DC convergence problem
Transistor model quantization process introduces
inaccuracies
The maximum circuit size and analysis speed using
the tabular transistor model improves nearly two
orders of magnitude compared to SPICE.
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14. SWITCH LEVEL ANALYSIS
Most digital circuit analysis is restricted to several
basic circuit components such as transistors,
capacitors and resistors.
Because of the restricted component types,
computation speed and memory can be improved
by using higher-level abstraction model with little
loss in accuracy. One such analysis is called
switch-level simulation.
The power dissipation is estimated from the
switching frequency and capacitance of each node.
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15. CONTI….
timing simulation can be performed using
approximated RC calculation
The accuracy of Switch·level analysis is
worse
Than
Circuit·level analysis
But
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16. GATE LEVEL LOGIC SIMULATION
The component abstraction at this level is logic
gates and nets.
The circuit consists of components having defined
logic behavior at its inputs and outputs,
E.g. NAND gates, latches and flip-flops.
Most Gate-Level analysis can also handle
capacitors and some can also handle resistors and
restricted models of interconnect wires.
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17. BASICS OF GATE LEVEL ANALYSIS
The most popular gate-level analysis is based on
the so called event-driven logic simulation.
Events are zero-one logic switching of nets
one switching event occurs at the input of a logic
gate, it may trigger other events at the output of the
gate after a specified time delay
Most gate-level simulation also supports other logic
states such as, “un known”, “don’t care” and “high-
impedence”.
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Verilog and VHDL are two popular languages used to
describe gate-level design
18. CYCLE-BASED SIMULATORS
In cycle simulation, it is not possible to specify delays.
A cycle-accurate model is used, and every gate is
evaluated in every cycle.
Cycle simulation therefore runs at a constant speed,
regardless of activity in the model.
Optimized implementations may take advantage of low
model activity to speed up simulation by skipping
evaluation of gates whose inputs didn't change.
In comparison to event simulation, cycle simulation
tends to be faster, to scale better, and to be better suited
for hardware acceleration / emulation.
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19. HARDWARE ACCELERATION TECHNOLOGY
Instead of using a general purpose CPU to execute
the simulation program, special purpose hardware
optimized for logic simulation is used.
This hardware acceleration technology generally
results in several factors of speedup compared to
using a general purpose computing system.
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20. HARDWARE EMULATION
Several orders of magnitude speedup in gate-level
analysis
Instead of simulating switching events using software
programs, the logic network is partitioned into smaller
manageable subblocks.
The Boolean function of each sub-block is extracted
and implemented with a hardware table mapping
mechanism such as RAM or FPGA.
A reconfigurable interconnection network, carrying the
logic signals, binds the sub-blocks together.
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21. HARDWARE EMULATION
Circuits up to a million gates can be emulated with
this technology but this is also the most expensive
type of logic simulator to operate and maintain
because of the sophisticated high-speed hardware
required.
The simulation speed is only one to two orders of
magnitude slower than the actual VLSI chips to be
fabricated.
For example
200MHz CPU can be emulated with a 2MHz clock
rate, permitting moderate realtime simulation.
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22. CAPACITIVE POWER DISSIPATION
A major advantage of gate-level power analysis is
that the P=CV2f equation can be computed
precisely and easily.
The power dissipated due to charging and
discharging capacitors can be easily computed
each in a type of a gate level circuit is associated
with capacitance ci counter variable ti.
At the end of the simulation, the frequency of net i
is given by fi = ti /(2T), where T is the simulation
time elapsed.
The capacitive power dissipation of the circuit is
Pcap = i
net
i
i f
V
C
.
2
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23. INTERNAL SWITCHING ENERGY
The dynamic power dissipated inside the logic cell is
called internal power, which consist of short circuit
power and charging/discharging of internal nodes.
The computation is repeated for all events of all gates
in the circuit to obtained the total dynamic internal
power dissipation as follows
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24. In the above equation, E(g,e) is the energy of the event e
of gate g obtained from logic gates characterization and
f(g,e) is the occurrence frequency of the event on the gate
observed from logic simulation.
For a simple logic gate, the internal power
consumed by the gate can be computed through a
characterization process similar to that of timing
analysis for logic gates
Simulate the "dynamic energy dissipation events" of
the gate with SPICE or other lower-level power
simulation tools.
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25. Dynamic energy dissipation events of a two input CMOS NAND
gate.
A B Y Dyn
Energy(pJ)
1 r f 1.67
1 f r 1.39
r 1 f 1.94
f 1 r 1.72
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E (g,e) depends on process conditions, operating voltage, temperature,
output loading capacitance, input signal slopes, etc.
26. STATIC STATE POWER
In this case, the power dissipation depends on the
state of the logic gate.
Under different states , the transistor operates in
different modes and thus the static leakage power
of the gate is different.
During logic simulation, we observe the gate for a
period T and record the fraction of time T(g,s)/T in
which a gate g stays in a particular state s
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27. A B Y Static
power(pW)
0 0 1 5.05
0 1 1 13.1
1 0 1 5.10
1 1 0 28.5
Static power dissipation states of a two input CMOS NAND gate.
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Static State Power
28. GATE LEVEL CAPACITANCE ESTIMATION
Capacitance also has a direct impact on delays and
signals slopes of logic gates and influence power
dissipation.
Two types of parasitic capacitance exist in CMOS
circuit:
1. Device parasitic capacitance
2. Wiring capacitance
The gate capacitance is heavily dependent on the
oxide thickness of the gate i.e., process dependent.
Wiring capacitance depends on the layer, area &
shape of the wire.
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29. GATE LEVEL POWER ANALYSIS
The total power dissipation of the circuit is the sum of
three power components expressed in equation as
follows
P = Pcap + Pint + Pstat
The analysis speed of gate level tool is fast enough to
allow full chip simulation.
With the static and internal power characterization, the
accuracy with in 10-15% of SPICE simulation is
possible.
A major disadvantage of gate level analysis is that signal
glitches cannot be modeled precisely. Signal glitches
can be significant source of power dissipation in VLSI
circuit.
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32. Architecture-Level Analysis
Block level or macro-level design.
The basic building blocks at this level are
register, adders, multipliers, busses,
multiplexers, memories etc.
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33. Architecture-Level Analysis
The dynamic event and static state
characterization method for logic gates cannot
be practically applied to the architectural
components because there are too many events
and states
16-bit adder
The power dissipation is depending on the logic
values of the inputs.
In the worst case, we may need to enumerate
2 (16+ 16) (4.29 billion) possible events
to fully characterize the 16-bit adder with the
gate-level characterization method.
The enumeration is finite but certainly not
practical to compute.
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34. Power Model Based on Activities
Well structured regularity.
The components are typically constructed
by cascading or repeating simpler units built
from logic gates.
One way to characterize the architectural
components is to express the power
dissipation as a function of the number of
bits of the components and their operating
frequencies
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35. Example
The power dissipation of an adder can be
expressed as
P=(nK1 + K2 )f
where n is the no. of bits, f is the frequency of
addition operation,
K1 and K2 are empirical coefficients
derived from characterization with a lower-
level power analysis such as gate-level
simulation.
The model does not take into account the
data dependency of the power dissipation.
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36. CONTI…
More Accurate Model
perform characterization to derive the coefficients Ki
the number of coefficients can be reduced because of
the particular characteristics of the component.
Ai and Bi (ith Bit Position)
For larger components with deep logic
nesting, e.g., multipliers,
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For larger components with deep logic nesting, e.g.,
multipliers,
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OPERATIONS
Power in terms of the
frequency of some primitive operations of an
architecture component.
Most architecture-level components only have a
few well-defined operations.
E.g. PD of a small memory component can be
written as
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K1 and K2 are obtained from characterization and properties of the
component
39. CONTI…
Power dissipation of the READ and WRITE operations of
a memory component is also dependent on the actual
address and data values.
compromise is to use the average READ and WRITE
energy of the operations
inaccuracies, but improves the computation efficiency
and generality of the power model.
If the address and data values of the memory operations
are fairly random, this solution is often very effective in
practice.
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the memory access pattern is skewed such that most of
the READ and WRITE operations occur at a particular
location, e.g., address zero.
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SYSTEMS
sample correlation has been observed.
Sample correlation refers to the property that successive
data samples are very close in their numerical values and
consequently their binary representations have many bits
in common.
001000001 00100011 001000101
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positive or negative correlation has a significant effect
on the power dissipation of a DSP system because of
the switching activities on the system datapath.
If we can find the relationship between the data
correlation and power dissipation, we can develop a
high-level power model without a sample-by-sample
analysis of the data stream.
Goal is to estimate power dissipation of an
architecture-level component based on the
frequency and some correlation measures of
the data stream.
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Toggle characteristics of the data signals under the
influence of data correlation.
If the data sample is positively correlated,
successive data sample values are very close in
their binary representation.
This means that the least significant bits (LSB) of
the data bus toggle frequently while the most
significant bits (MSB) are relatively quiet.
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half the maximum frequency. This is called the
uniform white noise region because the bits toggle in
a random fashion.
On the MSB side, the bits have a very low toggle
rate and they are called the sign bit region.
There is also a grey area between the two regions
where the toggle frequency changes from white
noise to sign bit.
In this region, the bit-toggle rate changes from near
zero to 0.5, typically in a linear fashion.
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1. Sample frequency.
2. Data correlation factor from -1.0 to + 1.0.
3. The sign bit and uniform white noise regions with
two integers.
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POWER ANALYSIS
The dual bit type signal model provides a very compact
representation of the switching characteristics.
Develop power dissipation models (equations) under
such signal excitation (power analysis of architectural
components.)
The power models are sensitive to the signal correlation
and the "bit type" of the signals.
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Module : single-input single-output block FIFO data
queue.
Assumtions
There is no activity coupling between any two-bit pair
(single bit of the component and generalize it to the
entire module).
Lower-level power analysis tool, such as a gate-level
tool, to analyse the power dissipation
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PD of a single bit under the uniform white noise signal at a
particular frequency f1 & voltage V1
The effective capacitance C u of the bit is defined as
The effective capacitance Cu is approximately equal to the
capacitance being switched under the white noise signal
excitation.
This effective capacitance is used to compute PD under
white noise signal excitation:::::
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The concept of effective capacitance can also be used
on the module bits under the sign bit signal excitation.
Effective capacitance is no longer a scalar quantity.
Between successive data samples, the sign bit may or
may not change sign.
Thus, Four effective capacitance values:
C++ , C+ _, C_+, C_ _
subscript sign pairs
In a FIFO data queue, it is most likely that
C +_ = C_+ and C++ = C_ _
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construct circuits in which all four effective capacitance
variables have different values.
With the four effective capacitance values characterized
by a lower-level power analysis tool,
Construct a power equation.
Let p++ , p+_, p_+, p __ be the probabilities that sign
changes occur in the data stream.
Power equation for the bit excitation under the sign bit
signal :::::
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For a module that consists of multiple bits
Distinguish the white noise bits from the sign bits.
Take the midpoint of the grey area
All bits to the left (right) of the midpoint are considered
to have sign bit (white noise) signals.
Ns =sign bits Nu= white noise bits
The power dissipation P of the module:::::
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properties of Data stream
Positive Correlation
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bits in the module and allows us to characterization
one bit and applies the effective capacitance to the
other bits.
For modules that have interactions among data bits
such as barrel shifters. One way to solve this is to
perform the characterization for all
possible combinations of Nu and Ns. Since Nu + Ns
is equal to the number of bits N
of the module, there are only N + I conditions to be
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The two inputs may have different sign and noise
bit separation points.
This creates a region at the output of the adder in
which the sign and noise bit signals overlap.
There are four possible polarity conditions in the
sign bit portions of the inputs and output. Therefore,
there are 4 x 4 x 4 = 64 possible types of signal
transition patterns.
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module.
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The "u/ss" condition (INI has noise bits and IN2 has sign
bits) requires another four effective capacitances
The "ss/u“ condition.
The "u/u" input combination only requires one effective
capacitance value.
Total, 64 + 4 + 4 + I = 73 effective capacitance
values to be characterized using a lower-level
power analysis tool.
Such simulators assume tInstead of scheduling events at arbitrary time points, certain nets of the circuit are
only allowed a handful of events at a given clock cycle. This reduces the number of
events to be simulated and results in more efficient analysis.hat circuits are driven by synchronous master clock signals.
pre-layout phase, the capacitance Ci can be estimated
This simple power model depends only on the
operating frequency and size of the adder. The model does not take into account the
data dependency of the power dissipation. For example, if one input of the adder is
always zero, we would expect the power dissipation to be less compared with the case
when both inputs are changing.
This is not a coincidence but a direct result of
sampling a band-limited analog signal with a higher sampling rate relative to the analog
signal bandwidth.