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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2006
Applicants:
Srivaths Ravi, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Anand Raghunathan, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Lin Zhong, Princeton, NJ (US);
Niraj K. Jha, Princeton, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Srivaths Ravi, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Anand Raghunathan, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Lin Zhong, Princeton, NJ (US);
Niraj K. Jha, Princeton, NJ (US);
Assignee:
NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for estimating the power consumption of an electronic circuit under design that employs a Cycle-Accurate Functional Description (CAFD) which advantageously provides the accuracy achieved by RTL power estimation with the speed and speed of higher-level approaches.