An ArchC approach for automatic energy consumption characterization of processors

• Published in: 2012 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP) pp. 57 - 63
• Main Authors: Guedes, M., Auler, R., Borin, E., Azevedo, R.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.10.2012
• Subjects: acPower; acPowerGen; acSim; acSynth; ArchC; characterization; Computational modeling; consumption; Energy consumption; Estimation; high-level; Libraries; power; processor; Program processors; simulation; Solid modeling

This paper presents acSynth, an ArchC framework for energy characterization and simulation. Based on Tiwari's Method, a subject processor is characterized in an affordable time and the information is fed into acSynth to bring architecture level power analysis. The framework provides power repor...