Next: Buffers
Up: RTL Interconnect Power Estimation
Previous: Steering logic
Many DPUs are clocked. Such units include controllers, registers
and pipelined functional units. In the floorplanner, we increase
the communication cost between clocked units in order to place
them closer to each other. After floorplanning, an MST is
constructed for these clocked units. The power consumption of the
MST is estimated using unit-length switched capacitance and the
total length of the MST.
Lin Zhong
2003-10-11