Estimation of power and thermal profiles

摘要

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.

主权项

1. A method of power and thermal profile estimation, comprising:
by a computing system:
receiving information of a netlist for a circuit design and information of a group of devices;identifying the group of devices in the netlist based on the information of the group of devices;retrieving a current value for one or more devices in the group of devices from a lookup table;determining power consumption information for the group of devices based in part on the retrieved current value; andassociating the power consumption information with layout location information for the group of devices.