Semiconductor Engineering sat down with a large panel of experts to discuss the state of power estimation and to find out if the current levels of accuracy are sufficient to being able to make ...

Power analysis and optimization have gained importance over the last few years. During this time it has become obvious how critical it is to use realistic payloads to accurately estimate power and ...

Power tends to cost; high power costs highly. This rather forced adaptation of Lord Acton’s famous quote captures two important aspects of semiconductor design and power consumption. Looking at ...

Choosing power-estimation and power-reduction methodologies involves not only what they can (and cannot) do and how well they do it, but at what cost. Costs include power-estimation tools and model ...

SoC power consumption is a key differentiating feature. The initial estimated power of the design is often less than the power use seen on silicon. This happens because there is no power estimation ...

A few years back, a colleague shared an interesting exercise with me. He took a deck of cards, split it in half, turned one half face up, then mixed all the cards up on a table and asked me how many ...

How FinFET technology has changed power-consumption analysis. Steps involved in taking a hierarchical approach to performing proper power analysis. Verification expert Lauro Rizzatti recently ...