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Abstract
Faculty of Engineering – Ain Shams University
Electronics and Communication Engineering Department
Researcher Name: Amr Baher Seddik Darwish
Thesis title: ”Power Estimation on Transaction Level”
Degree: master of Science in Electrical Engineering
Thesis Summary
The advance in processing technologies has derived the complexity of electronic design increasing the product life cycle. Different methodologies and modeling techniques have been developed to keep the design life cycle short through different variants. One of these techniques is Transaction Level Modeling (TLM) using SystemC. TLM introduces abstract modeling of communication scheme between design modules using function calls. TLM approach has been developed over many years making it good candidate for speeding up the design process.
Power consumption is a key specification in any design. Determining the power of large System-on-Chip (SoC) designs is very computational and time expensive on Register Transfer Level (RTL), if even possible. Power should be addressed in early stages of the design process to prevent long expensive iterations, which hinders releasing a design. Integration of power computation with TLM is gaining interest in both research and industry. TLM for power is needed to overcome any unexpected drawback in the design at early stages.
The aim of this thesis is to introduce Transaction Level Power Modeling (TLPM) methodology for dynamic power estimation using TLM. Commercial IP is used to validate and evaluate the proposed methodology. Experimental results show the accuracy and efficiency of the methodology as compared to golden reference.
The thesis is divided into five chapters including lists of contents, tables and figures and list of references.
Chapter 1
In this chapter, power estimation on TLM is introduced. It illustrates the objectives of research and the work contributions. It includes the thesis introduction and presents its outline.
Chapter 2
This chapter presents the literature survey of power estimation. It starts with illustration of the previous work in power estimation and drawbacks in implementing of the old techniques. Then, fundamental concepts needed in this thesis are presented.
Chapter 3
This chapter demonstrates the proposed methodology TLPM. It shows in detail the instrumentation process for design analysis and power characterization. Building power models are illustrated. Also, implementation and simulation of TLPM are presented.
Chapter 4
This chapter is exploring the experimental results including the accuracy and speed charts for proposed methodology. The design under test is shown in detail.
Chapter 5
This chapter ends the thesis by conclusions of the thesis and future work.
Thesis supervisors:
Prof. Mohamed Amin Dessouky
Dr. Magdy Ali El-Moursy