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3.0 <strong>POWER</strong> ESTIMATION<br />

The need for electronic gadgets to be mobile has driven the electronics industry for low-power<br />

design techniques, starting all the way from architecture level improvements down to transistor<br />

layout optimization. As the goal of the SuperCISC reconfigurable hardware fabric is to achieve<br />

high performance and low-power, it is necessary to estimate the power consumed by the fabric<br />

after synthesis at the pre-layout level as well as after the physical design at the post-layout level<br />

stage. This section of the document discusses the power consumption terminologies, the power<br />

estimation flow using Synopsys Prime Power and transistor level power estimation techniques<br />

for the delay element used in the fabric.<br />

3.1 <strong>POWER</strong> DISSIPATION TERMINOLOGIES<br />

The power consumed by a circuit can be broadly classified into two categories [5]:<br />

(i) Static Power Consumption<br />

(ii) Dynamic Power Consumption<br />

Static Power Consumption in a CMOS circuit can be due to variety of sources, sub-threshold<br />

leakage, gate tunneling leakage and junction leakage. Dynamic power consumption can be<br />

classified into switching power and internal power. The power dissipation terminology tree<br />

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