Method and apparatus for power measurement in electronic circuit design and analysis

A power meter for measuring power usage in a circuit includes preprocessor and a weighting network. The pre-processor is configured to receive toggle data for a number of power proxy signals in the circuit for a plurality of clock cycles of the circuit in a first time window. The power proxy signals...

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Hauptverfasser:	Palaniswamy, Kumara Guru, Walker, Matthew James, Xu, Xiaoqing, Das, Shidhartha, Xie, Zhiyao, Elwood, Matthew Paul
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	CALCULATING COMPUTING CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL CONTROLLING COUNTING ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS MEASURING MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS PHYSICS REGULATING SYSTEMS FOR REGULATING ELECTRIC OR MAGNETIC VARIABLES TESTING
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Zusammenfassung:	A power meter for measuring power usage in a circuit includes preprocessor and a weighting network. The pre-processor is configured to receive toggle data for a number of power proxy signals in the circuit for a plurality of clock cycles of the circuit in a first time window. The power proxy signals and weighting values are determined automatically from simulated or emulated toggle data. For each power proxy signal, the pre-processor averages the toggle data over one or more clock cycles in one or more second time windows, within the first time window, to provide averaged toggle data, and outputs the averaged toggle data for each second time window. The weighting network is configured to combine the averaged toggle data from the power proxy signals, based on a set of weight values, to provide a measure of the power usage.