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AccuPower: An Accurate Power Estimation Tool for Superscalar Microprocessors

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D. Ponomarev,

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DATE '02: Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe

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This paper describes the AccuPower toolset -- a set ofsimulation tools accurately estimating the powerdissipation within a superscalar microprocessor.AccuPower uses a true hardware level and cycle levelmicroarchitectural simulator and energy dissipationcoefficients gleaned from SPICE measurements of actualCMOS layouts of critical datapath components. Transitioncounts can be obtained at the level of bits within data andinstruction streams, at the level of registers, or at the levelof larger building blocks (such as caches, issue queue,reorder buffer, function units). This allows for an accurateestimation of switching activity at any desired level ofresolution.

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DATE '02: Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe

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