This document provides 5 guidelines for early and accurate power analysis at the register transfer level (RTL) of abstraction:
1. Leverage available design activity information from simulation outputs or by specifying toggle rates for critical signals.
2. Learn from an existing netlist design and apply characteristics like capacitance and cell distribution to new RTL power estimation.
3. Perform early physically-aware power estimation considering physical and timing constraints to improve accuracy for timing-sensitive designs.
4. Estimate scan power early to identify options for reducing high power during testing like running scans at lower speed or in groups.
5. Leverage match points from logical equivalence checks between RTL and netlist to map RTL simulation data to gate
The demand for portable electronic devices that offers increase in functions, performance at lower costs and smaller sizes increased rapidly. Designing complex SOCs is a challenge, especially at 90 nanometers Technology, where new problems crop up - power efficiency is being the biggest of problems. For different modes we cannot design different operating circuits, better to have technique that will have minimum circuit changes and in all modes it will save power which is wasted. This paper provides some guidelines on how Low Power design using UPF approach can be introduced for a design.
POWER GATING STRUCTURE FOR REVERSIBLE PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC ARRAYecij
Throughout the world, the numbers of researchers or hardware designer struggle for the reducing of
power dissipation in low power VLSI systems. This paper presented an idea of using the power gating
structure for reducing the sub threshold leakage in the reversible system. This concept presented in the
paper is entirely new and presented in the literature of reversible logics. By using the reversible logics for
the digital systems, the energy can be saved up to the gate level implementation. But at the physical level
designing of the reversible logics by the modern CMOS technology the heat or energy is dissipated due the
sub-threshold leakage at the time of inactivity or standby mode. The Reversible Programming logic array
(RPLA) is one of the important parts of the low power industrial applications and in this paper the physical
design of the RPLA is presented by using the sleep transistor and the results is shown with the help of
TINA- PRO software. The results for the proposed design is also compare with the CMOS design and
shown that of 40.8% of energy saving. The Transient response is also produces in the paper for the
switching activity and showing that the proposed design is much better that the modern CMOS design of
the RPLA.
The demand for portable electronic devices that offers increase in functions, performance at lower costs and smaller sizes increased rapidly. Designing complex SOCs is a challenge, especially at 90 nanometers Technology, where new problems crop up - power efficiency is being the biggest of problems. For different modes we cannot design different operating circuits, better to have technique that will have minimum circuit changes and in all modes it will save power which is wasted. This paper provides some guidelines on how Low Power design using UPF approach can be introduced for a design.
POWER GATING STRUCTURE FOR REVERSIBLE PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC ARRAYecij
Throughout the world, the numbers of researchers or hardware designer struggle for the reducing of
power dissipation in low power VLSI systems. This paper presented an idea of using the power gating
structure for reducing the sub threshold leakage in the reversible system. This concept presented in the
paper is entirely new and presented in the literature of reversible logics. By using the reversible logics for
the digital systems, the energy can be saved up to the gate level implementation. But at the physical level
designing of the reversible logics by the modern CMOS technology the heat or energy is dissipated due the
sub-threshold leakage at the time of inactivity or standby mode. The Reversible Programming logic array
(RPLA) is one of the important parts of the low power industrial applications and in this paper the physical
design of the RPLA is presented by using the sleep transistor and the results is shown with the help of
TINA- PRO software. The results for the proposed design is also compare with the CMOS design and
shown that of 40.8% of energy saving. The Transient response is also produces in the paper for the
switching activity and showing that the proposed design is much better that the modern CMOS design of
the RPLA.
A novel vedic divider based crypto-hardware for nanocomputing paradigm: An ex...VIT-AP University
Restoring and non-restoring divider has become widely applicability in the era of digital computing application due to its computation speed. In this paper, we have proposed the design of divider of different architecture for the computation of Vedic sutra based. The design of divider in the Vedic mode results in
high computation throughput due to its replica architecture, where latency is minimized in each of the replica stages. The proposed novel divider based symmetric key crypto-hardware architecture for lightweight embedded devices and the results obtained for this architecture by the analysis using the QCADesigner tool. For the physical environment in QCA computing paradigm are achieved through optimization the
architecture of cell by using the robust design computing architecture. For the extended perspective of lower
divider to higher divider and to synthesize, target outcomes by using efficient architecture.
TYPES OF PLACEMENT,GOOD PLACEMENT VS. BAD PLACEMENT ,ALGORITHMS, ASIC DESIGN FLOW DIAGRAM,DEFINITION OF PLACEMENT,TECHNIQUES USED FOR PLACEMENT,PLACEMENT TRENDS,SOLUTIONS
Programmable reversible logic is growing for a potential logic design type
concerning execution around advanced nanotechnology as well as quantum computing
with minimum effect upon circuit temperature production. Current improvements in
reversible logic utilizing additionally quantum computer calculations permit enhanced
computer structure plus arithmetical logic unit layouts. Since reversible circuits
continue to be fairly unique, the most significant study effect is found on the synthesis
of these circuits. Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) can be a promising part of
investigating at reversible computing. QCA-based design of the reversible 1-bit full
adder is using the Toffoli and Feynman gates have been achieved in this study. We
develop an improved reversible full adder with overflow detection to enhance
reliability. This component promises to complete the fundamental mathematical
functions of addition, subtraction alongside overflow detection, comparison, along with
logic procedures such as significance. Thus our design is very efficient and versatile
alongside lower quantity of lines as well as quantum cost. This work understands and
nurtures the necessity of reversible full adder for future revolutionary computing
technologies. In this paper, a reversible 1-bit full adder is proposed and compared with
other reversible full adders. Proposed gate performs better than existing methods and
ensures maximum logical operations like the full adder, full with less quantum cost
where other existing gates are not viable.
A Hybrid Approach to Standard Cell Power Characterization based on PVT Indepe...Arun Joseph
Focus of this work is a hybrid approach to improve traditional library characterization performance. Traditional circuit simulation for dynamic power characterization, Contributor based approach for leakage characterization
Note : To get more understanding Recommending to see first section - Low power in vlsi with upf basics part 1
With Increase in Portable devices, VLSI chips has to consider about Power usages in VLSI silicon chips. So Power Aware design and verification is so important in Industry. To get basic knowledge on Low Power Design and Verification with UPF basics Go through this Slides.
Vlsi design process for low power design methodology using reconfigurable fpgaeSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
An Area Efficient and High Speed Reversible Multiplier Using NS GateIJERA Editor
In digital computer system a major problem has been found that the Power dissipation which leads to bring some research on the methods to decrease this Area efficient, high speed. This is the main cause to give birth to reversible computing systems for digital computers and designs. Reversible computing is the path to future computing technologies, which all happen to use reversible logic. In addition, reversible computing will become mandatory because of the necessity to decrease power consumption. Reversible logic circuits have the same number of inputs and outputs, and have one-to-one mapping between vectors of inputs and outputs; thus the vector of input states can be always reconstructed from the vector of output states. Consequently, a computation is reversible, if it is always possible to uniquely recover the input, given the output. Each gate can be made reversible by adding some additional input and output wires if necessary. The main aim of this reversible computing is to lower the power dissipation, area efficient and high speed and some other advantages like security of data and prevention of errors etc... Reversible logic has so many applications low power CMOS, nanotechnology, DNA computing and quantum computing. There are two primary design implementations in this study which are the major spotlights. The first one is reversible design gate and the second one is multiplier design using reversible gates. In this manuscript we have implemented a 8 * 8 reversible design called “NSG(Non linear Sign Flip)”. The total project is implemented in Xilinx 14.7 ISE with Spartan 3E family.
Improving energy efficiency has always been the prime objective of the custom and automated digital circuit design techniques. However, as the field of design automation has matured over the last few decades, there have been no new automated design techniques, that can provide considerable improvements in circuit power, delay. Although emerging nano-devices are expected to replace the existing MOSFET devices, they are far from being as mature as semiconductor devices and their full potential and promises are many years away from being practical. The research described in this dissertation consists of four main parts. First is a new circuit architecture of a differential threshold logic flip-flop called PNAND. The PNAND gate is an edge-triggered multi-input sequential cell whose next state function is a threshold function of its inputs. Second a new approach, called hybridization, that replaces flip-flops and parts of their logic cones with PNAND cells is described. The resulting hybrid circuit, which consists of conventional logic cells and PNANDs, is shown to have significantly less power consumption, smaller area, less standby power and less power variation. Third, a new architecture of a field programmable array, called field programmable threshold logic array (FPTLA), in which the standard lookup table (LUT) is replaced by a PNAND is described. The FPTLA is shown to have as much as 50% lower energy delay product compared to conventional FPGA using well known FPGA modeling tool called VPR. Fourth, a novel clock skewing technique that makes use of the completion detection feature of the differential mode flip-flops is described.
A verilog based simulation methodology for estimating statistical test for th...ijsrd.com
The low Power estimation is an important aspect in digital VLSI circuit design. The estimation includes a power dissipation of a circuit and hence this to be reduces. The power estimations are specific to a particular component of power. The process of optimization of circuits for low power, user should know the effects of design techniques on each component. There are different power dissipation methods for reduction in power component. In this paper, estimating the power like short circuit and the total power, power reduction technique and the application of different proposed technique has been presented here. Hence, it is necessary to provide the information about the effect on each of these components.
Area Efficient Pulsed Clock Generator Using Pulsed Latch Shift RegisterIJMTST Journal
Shift Registers are building blocks used for the storage of data in many devices. Currently, Flip flops which have been used in Shift Registers consume more Power and impose a heavy load on Clock distribution networks. The Proposed work overcomes the Power consumption and reduces the delay by using the Pulsed Latches instead of the Flip flops. Conventional Latches-Static differential Sense Amplifier Shared Pulse Latch (SSASPL) has been used where the number of Transistors has been reduced. Trigger generator is used to give non overlap clock signals to the memory elements, which reduced the delay and produced the fast implementation of the data. The Power consumed reduces by 27% and delay reduces by 21% when compared to the Shift Registers using Flip flops.
Design and Analysis of Sequential Circuit for Leakage Power Reduction using S...ijsrd.com
The rapid growth in semiconductor device industry has led to the development of high Performance potable systems with improve reliability. In such applications, it is extremely important to minimize current consumption due to the limited availability of battery Power. Consequently, power dissipation is becoming recognized as a top priority issue for VLSI circuit design. Leakage power makes up to 50% of the total power consumption in today's high performance microprocessors. Therefore leakage power reduction becomes the key to a low power design. Leakage power dissipation is the power dissipated by the circuit when it is in Sleep mode or standby mode. A significant portion of the total power consumption in high performance digital circuits in deep submicron regime is mainly due to leakage power. Leakage is the only Source. of power consumption in an idle circuit. Therefore it is important to reduce leakage power in portable system.
A novel vedic divider based crypto-hardware for nanocomputing paradigm: An ex...VIT-AP University
Restoring and non-restoring divider has become widely applicability in the era of digital computing application due to its computation speed. In this paper, we have proposed the design of divider of different architecture for the computation of Vedic sutra based. The design of divider in the Vedic mode results in
high computation throughput due to its replica architecture, where latency is minimized in each of the replica stages. The proposed novel divider based symmetric key crypto-hardware architecture for lightweight embedded devices and the results obtained for this architecture by the analysis using the QCADesigner tool. For the physical environment in QCA computing paradigm are achieved through optimization the
architecture of cell by using the robust design computing architecture. For the extended perspective of lower
divider to higher divider and to synthesize, target outcomes by using efficient architecture.
TYPES OF PLACEMENT,GOOD PLACEMENT VS. BAD PLACEMENT ,ALGORITHMS, ASIC DESIGN FLOW DIAGRAM,DEFINITION OF PLACEMENT,TECHNIQUES USED FOR PLACEMENT,PLACEMENT TRENDS,SOLUTIONS
Programmable reversible logic is growing for a potential logic design type
concerning execution around advanced nanotechnology as well as quantum computing
with minimum effect upon circuit temperature production. Current improvements in
reversible logic utilizing additionally quantum computer calculations permit enhanced
computer structure plus arithmetical logic unit layouts. Since reversible circuits
continue to be fairly unique, the most significant study effect is found on the synthesis
of these circuits. Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) can be a promising part of
investigating at reversible computing. QCA-based design of the reversible 1-bit full
adder is using the Toffoli and Feynman gates have been achieved in this study. We
develop an improved reversible full adder with overflow detection to enhance
reliability. This component promises to complete the fundamental mathematical
functions of addition, subtraction alongside overflow detection, comparison, along with
logic procedures such as significance. Thus our design is very efficient and versatile
alongside lower quantity of lines as well as quantum cost. This work understands and
nurtures the necessity of reversible full adder for future revolutionary computing
technologies. In this paper, a reversible 1-bit full adder is proposed and compared with
other reversible full adders. Proposed gate performs better than existing methods and
ensures maximum logical operations like the full adder, full with less quantum cost
where other existing gates are not viable.
A Hybrid Approach to Standard Cell Power Characterization based on PVT Indepe...Arun Joseph
Focus of this work is a hybrid approach to improve traditional library characterization performance. Traditional circuit simulation for dynamic power characterization, Contributor based approach for leakage characterization
Note : To get more understanding Recommending to see first section - Low power in vlsi with upf basics part 1
With Increase in Portable devices, VLSI chips has to consider about Power usages in VLSI silicon chips. So Power Aware design and verification is so important in Industry. To get basic knowledge on Low Power Design and Verification with UPF basics Go through this Slides.
Vlsi design process for low power design methodology using reconfigurable fpgaeSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
An Area Efficient and High Speed Reversible Multiplier Using NS GateIJERA Editor
In digital computer system a major problem has been found that the Power dissipation which leads to bring some research on the methods to decrease this Area efficient, high speed. This is the main cause to give birth to reversible computing systems for digital computers and designs. Reversible computing is the path to future computing technologies, which all happen to use reversible logic. In addition, reversible computing will become mandatory because of the necessity to decrease power consumption. Reversible logic circuits have the same number of inputs and outputs, and have one-to-one mapping between vectors of inputs and outputs; thus the vector of input states can be always reconstructed from the vector of output states. Consequently, a computation is reversible, if it is always possible to uniquely recover the input, given the output. Each gate can be made reversible by adding some additional input and output wires if necessary. The main aim of this reversible computing is to lower the power dissipation, area efficient and high speed and some other advantages like security of data and prevention of errors etc... Reversible logic has so many applications low power CMOS, nanotechnology, DNA computing and quantum computing. There are two primary design implementations in this study which are the major spotlights. The first one is reversible design gate and the second one is multiplier design using reversible gates. In this manuscript we have implemented a 8 * 8 reversible design called “NSG(Non linear Sign Flip)”. The total project is implemented in Xilinx 14.7 ISE with Spartan 3E family.
Improving energy efficiency has always been the prime objective of the custom and automated digital circuit design techniques. However, as the field of design automation has matured over the last few decades, there have been no new automated design techniques, that can provide considerable improvements in circuit power, delay. Although emerging nano-devices are expected to replace the existing MOSFET devices, they are far from being as mature as semiconductor devices and their full potential and promises are many years away from being practical. The research described in this dissertation consists of four main parts. First is a new circuit architecture of a differential threshold logic flip-flop called PNAND. The PNAND gate is an edge-triggered multi-input sequential cell whose next state function is a threshold function of its inputs. Second a new approach, called hybridization, that replaces flip-flops and parts of their logic cones with PNAND cells is described. The resulting hybrid circuit, which consists of conventional logic cells and PNANDs, is shown to have significantly less power consumption, smaller area, less standby power and less power variation. Third, a new architecture of a field programmable array, called field programmable threshold logic array (FPTLA), in which the standard lookup table (LUT) is replaced by a PNAND is described. The FPTLA is shown to have as much as 50% lower energy delay product compared to conventional FPGA using well known FPGA modeling tool called VPR. Fourth, a novel clock skewing technique that makes use of the completion detection feature of the differential mode flip-flops is described.
A verilog based simulation methodology for estimating statistical test for th...ijsrd.com
The low Power estimation is an important aspect in digital VLSI circuit design. The estimation includes a power dissipation of a circuit and hence this to be reduces. The power estimations are specific to a particular component of power. The process of optimization of circuits for low power, user should know the effects of design techniques on each component. There are different power dissipation methods for reduction in power component. In this paper, estimating the power like short circuit and the total power, power reduction technique and the application of different proposed technique has been presented here. Hence, it is necessary to provide the information about the effect on each of these components.
Area Efficient Pulsed Clock Generator Using Pulsed Latch Shift RegisterIJMTST Journal
Shift Registers are building blocks used for the storage of data in many devices. Currently, Flip flops which have been used in Shift Registers consume more Power and impose a heavy load on Clock distribution networks. The Proposed work overcomes the Power consumption and reduces the delay by using the Pulsed Latches instead of the Flip flops. Conventional Latches-Static differential Sense Amplifier Shared Pulse Latch (SSASPL) has been used where the number of Transistors has been reduced. Trigger generator is used to give non overlap clock signals to the memory elements, which reduced the delay and produced the fast implementation of the data. The Power consumed reduces by 27% and delay reduces by 21% when compared to the Shift Registers using Flip flops.
Design and Analysis of Sequential Circuit for Leakage Power Reduction using S...ijsrd.com
The rapid growth in semiconductor device industry has led to the development of high Performance potable systems with improve reliability. In such applications, it is extremely important to minimize current consumption due to the limited availability of battery Power. Consequently, power dissipation is becoming recognized as a top priority issue for VLSI circuit design. Leakage power makes up to 50% of the total power consumption in today's high performance microprocessors. Therefore leakage power reduction becomes the key to a low power design. Leakage power dissipation is the power dissipated by the circuit when it is in Sleep mode or standby mode. A significant portion of the total power consumption in high performance digital circuits in deep submicron regime is mainly due to leakage power. Leakage is the only Source. of power consumption in an idle circuit. Therefore it is important to reduce leakage power in portable system.
Design of Low Power Sequential System Using Multi Bit FLIP-FLOP With Data Dri...IJERA Editor
Power reduction plays a vital role in VLSI design .The Data driven clock gating is used for reduce power consumption in synchronous circuits .Common clock gating is used for power saving. However clock gating still leaves larger amount of redundant clock pulses. Multibit flip-flop is also used to reduce power consumption .Using of Multibit Flip-Flop method is to eliminate the total inverter number by sharing the inverters in the flip-flop .Combination of Multibit Flip-Flop with Data driven clock gating will increase the further power saving. Xilinx software tool and quatrus II for power analysis is used for implementing this proposed system.
System on Chip Based RTC in Power ElectronicsjournalBEEI
Current control systems and emulation systems (Hardware-in-the-Loop, HIL or Processor-in-the-Loop, PIL) for high-end power-electronic applications often consist of numerous components and interlinking busses: a micro controller for communication and high level control, a DSP for real-time control, an FPGA section for fast parallel actions and data acquisition, multiport RAM structures or bus systems as interconnecting structure. System-on-Chip (SoC) combines many of these functions on a single die. This gives the advantage of space reduction combined with cost reduction and very fast internal communication. Such systems become very relevant for research and also for industrial applications. The SoC used here as an example combines a Dual-Core ARM 9 hard processor system (HPS) and an FPGA, including fast interlinks between these components. SoC systems require careful software and firmware concepts to provide real-time control and emulation capability. This paper demonstrates an optimal way to use the resources of the SoC and discusses challenges caused by the internal structure of SoC. The key idea is to use asymmetric multiprocessing: One core uses a bare-metal operating system for hard real time. The other core runs a “real-time” Linux for service functions and communication. The FPGA is used for flexible process-oriented interfaces (A/D, D/A, switching signals), quasi-hard-wired protection and the precise timing of the real-time control cycle. This way of implementation is generally known and sometimes even suggested–but to the knowledge of the author’s seldomly implemented and documented in the context of demanding real-time control or emulation. The paper details the way of implementation, including process interfaces, and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the chosen concept. Measurement results demonstrate the properties of the solution.
Performance Comparison of Various Clock Gating Techniquesiosrjce
Clock signal have been a great source of power dissipation in synchronous circuits because of high
frequency and load. So , by using clock gating one can save power by reducing unnecessary switching activity
inside the gated module. Here four gating methods are discussed and their power dissipation is compared. The
most popular is synthesis-based, deriving clock enabling signals based on the logic of the underlying system. It
unfortunately leaves the majority of the clock pulses driving the flip flops (FFs) redundant. A data driven
method stops most of those and yields higher power savings, but its implementation is complex and application
dependent. A third method called auto gated FFs (AGFF) is simple but yields relatively small power savings.
Another novel method called Look Ahead Clock Gating (LACG) is presented, which combines all the three.It
avoids the tight timing constraints of AGFF and data driven by allotting a full clock cycle for the computation of
the enabling signals and their propagation.
Power Optimized Datapath Units of Hybrid Embedded Core Architecture Using Clo...VLSICS Design
Minimizing power consumption is a primary consideration in hardware design of portable devices where
high performance and functionality is required with limited battery power. With the scaling of technology
and the need for high performance and more functionality, power dissipation becomes a major bottleneck
for microprocessor systems design. Clock power can be significant in high performance systems. Dynamic
power can contribute up to 50% of the total power dissipation. The main goal of this work is to implement
a prototype power optimized datapath unit and ALU of Hybrid Embedded Controller Architecture targeted
on to the FPGA chip and analyze the power consumption of the datapath, ALU etc. Dynamic power
management system which includes clock gating, qualified system latches are incorporated into this
design. The whole design is captured using VHDL make use of Xilinx tool. This paper gives complete
guidelines for authors submitting papers for the AIRCC Journals.
Implementation of Area Effective Carry Select AddersKumar Goud
Abstract: In the design of Integrated circuit area occupancy plays a vital role because of increasing the necessity of portable systems. Carry Select Adder (CSLA) is a fast adder used in data processing processors for performing fast arithmetic functions. From the structure of the CSLA, the scope is reducing the area of CSLA based on the efficient gate-level modification. In this paper 16 bit, 32 bit, 64 bit and 128 bit Regular Linear CSLA, Modified Linear CSLA, Regular Square-root CSLA (SQRT CSLA) and Modified SQRT CSLA architectures have been developed and compared. However, the Regular CSLA is still area-consuming due to the dual Ripple-Carry Adder (RCA) structure. For reducing area, the CSLA can be implemented by using a single RCA and an add-one circuit instead of using dual RCA. Comparing the Regular Linear CSLA with Regular SQRT CSLA, the Regular SQRT CSLA has reduced area as well as comparing the Modified Linear CSLA with Modified SQRT CSLA; the Modified SQRT CSLA has reduced area. The results and analysis show that the Modified Linear CSLA and Modified SQRT CSLA provide better outcomes than the Regular Linear CSLA and Regular SQRT CSLA respectively. This project was aimed for implementing high performance optimized FPGA architecture. Modelsim 10.0c is used for simulating the CSLA and synthesized using Xilinx PlanAhead13.4. Then the implementation is done in Virtex5 FPGA Kit.
Keywords: Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), efficient, Carry Select Adder (CSLA), Square-root CSLA (SQRTCSLA).
https://technoelectronics44.blogspot.com/
GDI TECHNOLOGY, here you get GDI implementation and design of GDI based gates AND, OR, XOR, and Adders like CLA, CIA, CSKA, performance analysis of CMOS And GDI
The paper presents a low Power consumption plays a vital role in the present day VLSI technology. Power consumption of an electronic device can be reduced by adopt changed design styles. Multipliers play a most important role in high concert systems. This project focus on a novel energy efficient technique called adiabatic logic which is based on energy renewal principle and power is compared by designing a multiplier. CMOS technology plays a main role in designing low power consuming devices, compared to different logic family CMOS has less power dissipation. Adiabatic logic method is assumed to be an attractive solution for low power electronic applications. By using Adiabatic techniques energy dissipation in PMOS network can be minimized and selection of energy stored at load capacitance can be recycled instead of dissipated as heat. Tanner EDA tools are used for simulation.
Adiabatic Logic Based Low Power Carry Select Adder for future TechnologiesIJMER
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) is Peer reviewed, online Journal. It serves as an international archival forum of scholarly research related to engineering and science education.
An Approach to Detecting Writing Styles Based on Clustering Techniquesambekarshweta25
An Approach to Detecting Writing Styles Based on Clustering Techniques
Authors:
-Devkinandan Jagtap
-Shweta Ambekar
-Harshit Singh
-Nakul Sharma (Assistant Professor)
Institution:
VIIT Pune, India
Abstract:
This paper proposes a system to differentiate between human-generated and AI-generated texts using stylometric analysis. The system analyzes text files and classifies writing styles by employing various clustering algorithms, such as k-means, k-means++, hierarchical, and DBSCAN. The effectiveness of these algorithms is measured using silhouette scores. The system successfully identifies distinct writing styles within documents, demonstrating its potential for plagiarism detection.
Introduction:
Stylometry, the study of linguistic and structural features in texts, is used for tasks like plagiarism detection, genre separation, and author verification. This paper leverages stylometric analysis to identify different writing styles and improve plagiarism detection methods.
Methodology:
The system includes data collection, preprocessing, feature extraction, dimensional reduction, machine learning models for clustering, and performance comparison using silhouette scores. Feature extraction focuses on lexical features, vocabulary richness, and readability scores. The study uses a small dataset of texts from various authors and employs algorithms like k-means, k-means++, hierarchical clustering, and DBSCAN for clustering.
Results:
Experiments show that the system effectively identifies writing styles, with silhouette scores indicating reasonable to strong clustering when k=2. As the number of clusters increases, the silhouette scores decrease, indicating a drop in accuracy. K-means and k-means++ perform similarly, while hierarchical clustering is less optimized.
Conclusion and Future Work:
The system works well for distinguishing writing styles with two clusters but becomes less accurate as the number of clusters increases. Future research could focus on adding more parameters and optimizing the methodology to improve accuracy with higher cluster values. This system can enhance existing plagiarism detection tools, especially in academic settings.
6th International Conference on Machine Learning & Applications (CMLA 2024)ClaraZara1
6th International Conference on Machine Learning & Applications (CMLA 2024) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of on Machine Learning & Applications.
Harnessing WebAssembly for Real-time Stateless Streaming PipelinesChristina Lin
Traditionally, dealing with real-time data pipelines has involved significant overhead, even for straightforward tasks like data transformation or masking. However, in this talk, we’ll venture into the dynamic realm of WebAssembly (WASM) and discover how it can revolutionize the creation of stateless streaming pipelines within a Kafka (Redpanda) broker. These pipelines are adept at managing low-latency, high-data-volume scenarios.
NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER IN CONDENSING HEAT EXCHANGERS...ssuser7dcef0
Power plants release a large amount of water vapor into the
atmosphere through the stack. The flue gas can be a potential
source for obtaining much needed cooling water for a power
plant. If a power plant could recover and reuse a portion of this
moisture, it could reduce its total cooling water intake
requirement. One of the most practical way to recover water
from flue gas is to use a condensing heat exchanger. The power
plant could also recover latent heat due to condensation as well
as sensible heat due to lowering the flue gas exit temperature.
Additionally, harmful acids released from the stack can be
reduced in a condensing heat exchanger by acid condensation. reduced in a condensing heat exchanger by acid condensation.
Condensation of vapors in flue gas is a complicated
phenomenon since heat and mass transfer of water vapor and
various acids simultaneously occur in the presence of noncondensable
gases such as nitrogen and oxygen. Design of a
condenser depends on the knowledge and understanding of the
heat and mass transfer processes. A computer program for
numerical simulations of water (H2O) and sulfuric acid (H2SO4)
condensation in a flue gas condensing heat exchanger was
developed using MATLAB. Governing equations based on
mass and energy balances for the system were derived to
predict variables such as flue gas exit temperature, cooling
water outlet temperature, mole fraction and condensation rates
of water and sulfuric acid vapors. The equations were solved
using an iterative solution technique with calculations of heat
and mass transfer coefficients and physical properties.
Cosmetic shop management system project report.pdfKamal Acharya
Buying new cosmetic products is difficult. It can even be scary for those who have sensitive skin and are prone to skin trouble. The information needed to alleviate this problem is on the back of each product, but it's thought to interpret those ingredient lists unless you have a background in chemistry.
Instead of buying and hoping for the best, we can use data science to help us predict which products may be good fits for us. It includes various function programs to do the above mentioned tasks.
Data file handling has been effectively used in the program.
The automated cosmetic shop management system should deal with the automation of general workflow and administration process of the shop. The main processes of the system focus on customer's request where the system is able to search the most appropriate products and deliver it to the customers. It should help the employees to quickly identify the list of cosmetic product that have reached the minimum quantity and also keep a track of expired date for each cosmetic product. It should help the employees to find the rack number in which the product is placed.It is also Faster and more efficient way.
Student information management system project report ii.pdfKamal Acharya
Our project explains about the student management. This project mainly explains the various actions related to student details. This project shows some ease in adding, editing and deleting the student details. It also provides a less time consuming process for viewing, adding, editing and deleting the marks of the students.
Hierarchical Digital Twin of a Naval Power SystemKerry Sado
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Guidelines for-early-power-analysis
1. Guidelines for early power analysis
Siddharth Guha & Kiran Vittal - Atrenta - February 11, 2013
While design sizes and complexities are increasing steadily, the power budget for electronic devices
is aggressively decreasing. This increased demand for low power design is driven by various factors.
First, wireless devices cannot afford high power consumption due to the limitations of battery
power. Second, even wired devices cannot afford high power consumption as the cooling costs are
significant. Additionally, in the last few years, government bodies, such as the European Union, have
recognized the need for energy efficient devices and have set strict regulations. So various forces
are now compelling the market to produce power-efficient electronic devices.
It is very important for system-on-a-chip (SoC) designers to understand power consumption early in
the design cycle to meet the desired power budget. However, one of the complexities involved is that
in the initial stages of SoC design not much information is available to accurately estimate power. As
the design progresses, power consumption becomes clearer with the availability of simulation
vectors, technology libraries and decisions taken for synthesis and routing. On the other hand, the
best time to optimize power is in the early stages of the design. The later it gets in the design flow,
the harder it gets to make changes to reduce power. One of the biggest challenges for the designer
is to have a set of tools and flows which can work right from the very early stage of the design
through the later stages in the flow. This article discusses some of the challenges of setting up such
a flow and shares five guidelines for early and accurate power analysis at the register transfer level
(RTL) of abstraction. The RTL abstraction for an SoC is developed during the early stages.
Guideline 1: Leverage design activity information
One of the required pieces of information needed for any power analysis tool is the toggle, or activity
information of the design. Simulation output files, like VCD and FSDB, contain detailed information
of the switching activity of each net in the design. This is known as vector-based power estimation.
Estimating power using this kind of information is very accurate but is time consuming.
On the other hand, vector-less power estimation is an approach to estimate the power based on
probabilistic toggling information. This approach is much faster but can be also less accurate.
Several case studies are available to explain why probabilistic power estimation can be inaccurate,
primarily because of loss in spatial and temporal correlation between the signals. This is however
not just related to the signals.
Consider that you are estimating the power of a memory and have the activity and duty cycles for
each net connected to the memory. In the technology libraries, the power table for the memory is
described as follows:
/* DISABLED POWER */
internal_power() {
related_pg_pin : "VDD" ;
2. when: "(!BISTEA & !MEA & !DFTMASK) & !LS";
rise_power(INPUT_BY_TRANS) {
values ("0.342393, 0.342393, 0.342393, 0.342393, 0.342393");
}
…
}
/* WRITE_SLOW POWER */
internal_power() {
related_pg_pin : "VDD" ;
when: "(!BISTEA & MEA & WEA & !DFTMASK & RMEA & RMA[0] & !RMA[1] & !RMA[2]
& !RMA[3] & !LS)";
rise_power(INPUT_BY_TRANS) {
values (" 5.791451,5.791451, 5.791451, 5.791451, 5.791451");
}
…
}
/* READ POWER */
internal_power() {
related_pg_pin : "VDD" ;
when: "(!BISTEA & MEA & !WEA) & !DFTMASK & !RMEA & !LS";
rise_power(INPUT_BY_TRANS) {
values (" 5.067451, 5.067451, 5.067451, 5.067451, 5.067451");
}
The power for the memory varies significantly based on the different “when” conditions in the
library model. So even if we get an accurate toggle rate and duty cycle of all the nets in the design,
no simulation output will provide the duty cycle of these “when” conditions. This is because these
“when” conditions are not present as nets in the design. So even if you have a very detailed VCD file
for the design, to accurately calculate power, the power analysis needs to do an internal cycle-based
simulation.
Adopting a hybrid approach
It is clearly evident that doing a cycle-based evaluation for each condition of the power table for
each cell in a design is not a scalable solution for large SoCs. So instead of taking a purely
probabilistic approach, or a complete cycle-based approach, power analysis flows can take a hybrid
approach depending on the following factors:
Stage of the design, including availability of the RTL or netlist, or libraries for hard macro1.
Availability of simulation data2.
Design specific data – like memory, datapath, analog cells, black boxes, etc.3.
3. Figure 1: A typical early stage IP sub-system block
Suppose we have a design at an early stage of RTL coding. As shown in Figure 1, there are 4 blocks:
Block A: This is an RTL block for which simulation data is available.
Block B: This is an RTL block for which no simulation data is available so far.
Block C: This is a black box for which the RTL is still not available, but the designer is aware of some
characteristics of this block.
Block D: This is block primarily consisting of memories and we have a simulation output file for this
block.
As we can see, there is a fair variation in the progress and the characteristics of each block. Also,
each block is at a different stage with respect to the availability of simulation data. So the early
power analysis flow should be able to handle the best information available.
Block A has RTL with simulation data information. So the power analysis tool should be able to
accept a simulation file at the block level. Since this block is mostly standard cell logic, power
analysis tools will consume a VCD or FSDB data and convert it into toggle counts and duty cycles for
each net. This will ensure that power estimation is much faster than a cycle-based approach. The
error introduced here because of the loss of spatial and temporal correlation will not affect the
accuracy of results for this kind of a design.
Block B is also an early stage RTL design where the simulation data is still not available. But at this
stage, the designer has some information regarding the critical signals. These will be clocks and
control signals.
Here, we can specify the clock period of the clock and the activity information or toggle rate for
critical signals.
Many times, it is hard to specify the toggle rate for a signal internal to the design. However, even for
vector-less power estimation, capturing the information for such signals is important. So the flow
should allow specifying toggle information on such signals. One such signal is clock gating enables
for blocks or registers.
Block C is a black box. There is no RTL information. So for such a case, the flow should be able to
4. capture coarse design information, as shown below, in an early power analysis tool such as Atrenta’s
SpyGlass® Power:
blackbox_power -instname block_c -equiv_nand2_count 3000
-register_count 100 –activity 0.3 -clocks a1 a2 -clock_percentage 0.5 0.5
The above command in the power analysis tool specifies that the black box will contain 3,000 NAND
gate equivalent cells and 100 registers. Also, the average activity of this module will be 0.3. With
this information and technology libraries the flow can estimate the power of this black box.
Block D contains many memories. Earlier in this section, we have seen that memories have a very
high variation of dynamic power based on different access operations like “read” and “write”. So for
this block, we need very accurate power estimation. A robust power estimation flow should be able
to identify such logic from other logic in the design. Once it identifies such cells, it will enable very
accurate tracing of each “when” condition for the cells. This is time-consuming, but the key is to be
able to identify a critical number of cells that will benefit most from such detailed cycle-based
evaluation.
The power analysis flow should be able to consume these different types of activity information and
apply them based on design knowledge to estimate the power at an early stage in the design.
Guideline 2
Guideline 2: Learn from an existing netlist design and apply it to the new RTL.
One of the key benefits of RTL power estimation is to get the power analysis early in the cycle. The
flow does not go through the complete back-end steps. However, a good power analysis flow should
be able to capture the intent of back-end analysis and apply it to the RTL. Scavenging an existing
prototype design netlist can provide good information to RTL analysis tools for accurate power
estimation as shown in Figure 2.
Many designs these days are derivative designs using the same technology node and libraries. In
these cases, parts of the design have already gone through back-end place and route. So when we
create a new design using exiting blocks, the early power analysis flow should be able to capture
characteristics like capacitance, cell distribution, VT-mix, clock tree buffers, etc. It is important to
support a completely automated flow of scavenging the key attributes from the netlist and apply
them in RTL power estimation. At the same time, the flow should provide the flexibility for an
advanced user to fine-tune the scavenged data.
5. Figure 2: Scavenging existing technology netlist for accurate RTL power analysis
The following factors affect components of power in the early analysis flow and relevant useful data
can be brought into the RTL power estimation for new designs based on an existing netlist with the
same technology nodes and libraries:
The synthesis engine should be fast enough but relatively accurate to match the area1.
characteristics of actual implementation tools. Synthesis will have to use scan cells, as the final
power correlation is being done with scanned netlist design.
In general, power analysis tools use minimum area-based cell mapping and may use cells that2.
have very low drive strengths, and therefore this may result in power discrepancies. To work
around this problem, use “don’t_use” or “don’t_touch” synthesis constraints on cells that have low
drive strengths.
The power analysis tool needs to account for the impact of clock buffers added to clock trees and3.
other buffers added to high-fanout nets.
In a few cases, libraries might have multiple power rails or blocks in the design that are in4.
switched off power domains. In some cases, you may have different libraries that are operating at
different voltages.
Clock power depends on the way clock gating is done in the design. By default, clock gating is not5.
done in an early power analysis tool and the flow needs to infer an existing clock gating
threshold.
Guideline 3
Guideline 3: Do early physically-aware power estimation for timing sensitive designs
In advanced technology nodes, it is common that the overall power at RTL correlates well with the
final netlist power. However, the individual sub-components of leakage power, internal power or
combinational power do not match that of the final design. This is an inherent drawback of area-
based synthesis for early power estimation and hence requires a solution that considers physical and
timing constraints early at RTL to get more accurate results for power.
6. It is also important for the power analysis tool to read in the timing constraints in Synopsys Design
Constraints (SDC) format to improve the power estimation results. The tool should also be able to
take in physical libraries and do timing optimization and the changes for fixing design rule violations
along with the slew calculation. The flow should also support the use of different versions of libraries
(like nominal for power and worst for timing) for timing optimization and power computation.
Further, with smaller geometries, the interconnect capacitance is becoming more significant. Thus
many libraries do not have wire load models. In the absence wire load models, a flow that has a
quick prototyping placement and floor plan module can extract fairly acute wiring capacitances.
Timing and physical optimization steps are time consuming and the tool needs to tradeoff fast run
times at RTL and accuracy in power estimation
Figure 3: Early physically-aware power analysis
Guideline 4
Guideline 4: Perform early RTL scan power estimation
SoC designs have multiple scan chains; each of them may have several thousand flops. If all the
chains are run at the same time, then power dissipation is too high. Hence scan power is a key factor
for deciding chip packaging. The power grid is designed with a certain maximum power, based on
normal operational mode. If the power during test mode is significantly more, it may be necessary
to slow down scan patterns or test certain blocks only. Both of these methods can cause excess cost
due to higher test time.
So, estimating scan power early in the design phase is very important. If the estimated power is not
under budget, then one needs to explore options to reduce test mode power. Here are a couple of
options:
Run the tests at lower speed.1.
Some SoCs are designed with groups of scan chains. We can run one scan group at a time, so we2.
can reduce the power with an increase in the test time. We need to find minimum number and
arrangement of scan groups which will meet the power limit.
For early scan power analysis, it is required to specify the activity of the signals during scan
operation. Automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) patterns can be viewed as statistically random,
so a typical activity value for an ATPG pattern would be 0.5, or 50%. In some cases, where the
designer uses low power ATPG to generate patterns, a lower activity value such as 0.3 or 0.1 can be
7. used for RTL scan power analysis.
We have done some experiments to compare the power numbers generated by SpyGlass using a
vector-less approach against a scan-inserted netlist using ATPG pattern VCD. We found that the
power numbers at RTL correlate to within 10% of the final netlist. In Figure 4, the blue line shows
the average power predicted by SpyGlass at RTL, before either the netlist or the ATPG patterns
existed. As you can see, except for the chain test which is guaranteed highest activity, the average
RTL prediction is very close to the actual value. This means that the RTL prediction can be used to
make tradeoffs about scan chain grouping and to ensure that no “surprise” comes from excessive
test mode power
Figure 4: Test mode power estimated at RTL with a vector-less approach
Guideline 5
Guideline 5: Leverage formal (LEC) tool’s match points for netlist power estimation
As the design progresses from RTL to a netlist, the flow should be able to adapt the netlist for power
analysis. However, gate level simulation is available much later. Also gate level simulation VCD or
FSDB data are huge in size. So a suitable flow is to be able to estimate the gate level power with
RTL simulation files. This flow has its own challenges. This is because when the RTL is synthesized
to a gate level design, various name changes takes place. Module hierarchies may get flattened,
vectors may get bit blasted and design constraints may change the name of the signals. So it is
harder for a tool to automatically map the RTL simulation file information onto the gate level design.
The flow should be able to consume the match points report of a logical equivalence check (LEC)
tool to match the RTL and gate level register names as shown in Figure 5.
8. Figure 5: Logical equivalency check (LEC) tool provides mapping information for gate level power
analysis based on RTL simulation data
Conclusion
This article shares five guidelines to perform an early power analysis with relevant and available
data at each stage to avoid last-minute surprises in the SoC design process. This set of guidelines is
applicable to any mobile or wired application and should be easy to adopt in any design
implementation flow.
About the authors
Siddharth Guha is a Senior Engineering Manager at Atrenta India. Siddharth holds
a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Netaji Subhas Institute of technology
(NSIT), Delhi. Siddharth is primarily responsible for SpyGlass Power Estimation,
Reduction and SEC products. You can reach him at sid@atrenta.com
Kiran Vittal is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Atrenta, with over 23 years
of experience in EDA and semiconductor design. Prior to joining Atrenta, he held
engineering, field applications and product marketing positions at Synopsys Inc,
ViewLogic Inc and Mentor Graphics Inc. Vittal holds an MBA from Santa Clara
University and a bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from India. You can
reach him at kvittal@atrenta.com.
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