TY - GEN
T1 - A switching activity analysis and visualisation tool for power optimisation of SoC buses
AU - English, Tom
AU - Man, Ka Lok
AU - Popovici, Emanuel
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - As part of our ongoing research, we present BSAA - Bus Switching Activity Analyser - a CAD tool which reads switching activity from RTL simulation, extracting a list of the circuit's buses and associated switching activity metrics. The list is filtered and sorted according to user-specified criteria, producing reports and a set of graphical switching activity profiles of the circuit's most active buses. The tool identifies common profiles corresponding to typical address- and data bus traffic. As part of a CAD flow, BSAA enables rapid switching activity analysis and encoding design for switching minimization on heavily-loaded cross-chip buses and IO pins.
AB - As part of our ongoing research, we present BSAA - Bus Switching Activity Analyser - a CAD tool which reads switching activity from RTL simulation, extracting a list of the circuit's buses and associated switching activity metrics. The list is filtered and sorted according to user-specified criteria, producing reports and a set of graphical switching activity profiles of the circuit's most active buses. The tool identifies common profiles corresponding to typical address- and data bus traffic. As part of a CAD flow, BSAA enables rapid switching activity analysis and encoding design for switching minimization on heavily-loaded cross-chip buses and IO pins.
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U2 - 10.1109/RME.2009.5201355
DO - 10.1109/RME.2009.5201355
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:70449516647
SN - 9781424437344
T3 - 2009 Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, PRIME 2009
SP - 264
EP - 267
BT - 2009 Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, PRIME 2009
T2 - 2009 Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, PRIME 2009
Y2 - 12 July 2009 through 17 July 2009
ER -