انجمن کامپیوتر ایران

A new method for power estimation in behavioral specification of asynchronous circuits is presented. The estimation is performed by counting the number of read and write accesses on ports of the circuit in behavioral simulation. A linear relationship between the number of reads/writes and the energy consumption of the system has been established. The method is applied to the Reed Solomon error detector as the benchmark. In comparison with the earlier gate level estimation methods based on transition counting we have shown that accurate results within %18 imprecision bound can be achieved.