Low-Power Design and Power-Aware Verification

ISBN-13: 9783319666181 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 155 str.

Progyna Khondkar

Opis

Until now, there has been a lack of a complete knowledge base to fully comprehend Low power (LP) design and power aware (PA) verification techniques and methodologies and deploy them all together in a real design verification and implementation project. This book is a first approach to establishing a comprehensive PA knowledge base.LP design, PA verification, and Unified Power Format (UPF) or IEEE-1801 power format standards are no longer special features. These technologies and methodologies are now part of industry-standard design, verification, and implementation flows (DVIF). Almost every chip design today incorporates some kind of low power technique either through power management on chip, by dividing the design into different voltage areas and controlling the voltages, through PA dynamic and PA static verification, or their combination.The entire LP design and PA verification process involves thousands of techniques, tools, and methodologies, employed from the register transfer level (RTL) of design abstraction down to the synthesis or place-and-route levels of physical design. These techniques, tools, and methodologies are evolving everyday through the progression of design-verification complexity and more intelligent ways of handling that complexity by engineers, researchers, and corporate engineering policy makers.

Spis treści

1 Introduction

2 Background

2.1 The Power of Intent

2.2 The Abstraction of UPF

3 Modeling UPF

3.1 Fundamental Constructs of  UPF

3.1.1 UPF Power Domain and Domain Boundary

3.1.2 UPF Power Supply and Supply Networks

3.1.3 UPF Power Stages

3.1.4 UPF Power Strategies

3.2 Succssively Refinable UPF

3.3 Incrementally Refinable UPF

3.4 Hierarchical UPF

4 Power Aware Standardization of Library

4.1 Liberty Power Management Attributes

4.2 Power Aware Verification Model Libraries

4.2.1 Non-PA Simulation Model Library

4.2.2 PA-Simulation Model Library

4.2.3 Extended-PA-Simulation Model Library

5 UPF Based Power Aware Dynamic Simulation

5.1 PA Dynamic Verification Techniques

5.2 PA Dynamic Simulation: Fundamentals

5.3 PA Dynamic Simulation: Verification Features

5.4 PA Dynamic Simulation: Verification Practices

5.5 PA Dynamic Simulation: Library Processing

5.6 PA Dynamic Simulation: Testbench Requirements

5.7 PA Dynamic Simulation: Custom PA Checkers and Monitors

5.8 PA Dynamic Simulation: Post-Synthesis Gate-Level Simulation

5.9 PA Dynamic Simulation: Simulation Results and Debugging Techniques

6 Power Aware Dynamic Simulation Coverage

6.1 PA Dynamic Simulation: Coverage Fundamentals

6.2 PA Dynamic Simulation : Coverage Features

6.3 PA Dynamic Simulation: Coverage Practices

6.3.1 Coverage Computation Model: For PA Dynamic Checks

6.3.2 Coverage Computation Model: For Power Stakes and Power State Transitions

6.3.3 Autotestplan Generation: From PA Dynamic Checks and Power State Transitions

6.3.4 Coverage Computation Model: For Cross-Coverage

 7 UPF Based Power Aware Static Verification

7.1 PA Static Checks: Fundamental Techniques

7.2 PA Static Checks: Verification Features

7.3 PA Static Checks Library Processing

7.4 PA Static Checks: Verification Practices

7.5 PA Static Checks: Static Checker Results and Debugging Techniques

8 References. 

O autorze

Progyna Khondkar is a low power design and verification expert and senior verification engineer at Mentor Graphics in the design verification technology division (DVT). He holds two patents and has numerous publications in power aware verification. He has strong focus on electronics, computer and information science education, research and teaching experiences in top level universities in Asia. He has worked for Hardware-Software design, development, integration, test and verification in the world class ASIC & Electronic Design Automation (EDA) companies for the last 15 years. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and is a senior member of IEEE. He also serves as a member of editorial board and reviewer of Journal of INFORMATION, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuit and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computers and Journal of VLSI Design and Verification (JVLSIDV).