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Sunject: ( ESNUG 305 #13 ) What Other Tools To Estimate Power Consumption ?
> Does anybody know of commercial tools that do power estimation for VLSI
> circuits ? I know of PowerMill. Anything else available out there ?
>
> - Bruno Melli
> Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins, CO
From: William Liao <wliao@vadem.com>
John,
Sente sells WattWatcher. It's been a while since I evaluated it, so I have
no current opinion on the tool. Their web address is www.powereda.com.
- William H. Liao
Vadem
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From: sgolson@trilobyte.com (Steve Golson)
Hi, John,
Sente has a product called Watt Watcher which can do *pre-synthesis* power
estimation (from Verilog and VHDL) as well as gate-level power estimation.
Lots more info at http://www.senteinc.com
- Steve Golson
Trilobyte Systems
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From: "David Brantley" <dmb@dalsemi.com>
John,
You might want to check into WattWatcher from Sente. It does power estimates
at the RTL level. It requires a well characterized cell library. When we
evaluated the product, we got answers within 10% of our powermill results.
We have purchased a copy but have not yet released it into production, a
bandwidth issue in support area.
- David Brantley
Dallas Semiconductor Dallas, TX
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From: Eric Filseth <efilseth@senteinc.com>
Sente (www.senteinc.com) develops tools which do accurate VLSI power
estimation and analysis, at both RTL and gate levels, both module-level
and full chip, both average and peak power.
Simplex (www.simplex.com) also provides transistor-level power analysis
tools in the same class as PowerMill.
- Eric Filseth
Sente
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From: "Edward L. Hepler" <elh@ece.vill.edu>
Mentor has a tool that was originally part of SCS (Silicon Compiler Systems),
a company that they purchased a few years ago... A version of their Lsim
simulator does power calculations... I have not used Lsim for power,
but have been a very pleased user of it for switch level simulation...
- Ed Hepler
VLSI Concepts, Inc.
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From: cmurphy@sugar.mti.sgi.com (Colin Murphy)
Estimation? Not sure what you are looking for but we have gotten very good
results from simplex from extracted finished layout.
- Colin Murphy
SGI
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