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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2012
William Matthew Hogan, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
William Matthew Hogan, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Mentor Graphics Corporation, Wilsonville, OR (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the invention relate to techniques for estimating power and thermal profiles for an integrated circuit design. With various implementations of the invention, a group of devices is identified in a netlist based on information of the group of devices. The netlist may be a schematic netlist or a layout netlist extracted from a layout design. Power consumption information for the group of devices is determined based on device parameters for the group of devices and a lookup table. The determined power consumption information is then associated with layout location information. A thermal profile may then be estimated based on the power consumption information.