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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2010
Vasant Palisetti, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rachida Kebichi, Lexington, MA (US);
Samuel Naffziger, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Vasant Palisetti, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rachida Kebichi, Lexington, MA (US);
Samuel Naffziger, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A plurality of sequential nodes in a design file for an electronic device are identified and one or more combinatorial power metric values are computed for the plurality of sequential nodes based upon an effective switching capacitance, a switching activity measure, and a power effort measure for at least a first device downstream from the each sequential node at a specified depth. The combinatorial power metric values for the plurality of sequential node are stored and compared to a target power metric value to determine if power consumption at the electronic device meets a predetermined power performance goal.