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Need help with Power estimation for a Xilinx Virtex5 FPGA - Ishita Dalal - Apr 21 8:25:13 2008



Hello everyone,I am currently working on a thesis project. As a part of my project, I have
developed several design architectures to implement a high speed, memory intensive DSP
algorithm (Discrete Wavelet Transform). As a part of my thesis I have to compare the
performance results of these designs with respect to area,clock and power. I have already
synthesized my designs on the Virtex 5 (XC5VSX50T) and have the results ready.But, I am not
aware of how to do the power estimation. Should I use the XPA spreadsheet or the XPower from
the ISE 9.2? I am not aware how I
should set the parameters for the designs, such as the toggle rates, capacitances, voltages
etc.

Could someone please help me with the power estimation using XPower. Something like a short
tutorial how to go about it?

Thanks,
Ishita


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Re: Need help with Power estimation for a Xilinx Virtex5 FPGA - vive...@yahoo.com - May 1 8:37:11 2008

Google gave me this result:
ftp://ftp.xilinx.com/pub/documentation/tutorials/xpowerfpgatutorial.pdf 

Cheers,
Vivek

Hello everyone,I am currently working on a thesis project. As a part of my project, I have
developed several design architectures to implement a high speed, memory intensive DSP
algorithm (Discrete Wavelet Transform). As a part of my thesis I have to compare the
performance results of these designs with respect to area,clock and power. I have already
synthesized my designs on the Virtex 5 (XC5VSX50T) and have the results ready.But, I am not
aware of how to do the power estimation. Should I use the XPA spreadsheet or the XPower from
the ISE 9.2? I am not aware how I
>should set the parameters for the designs, such as the toggle rates, capacitances, voltages
etc.
>
>Could someone please help me with the power estimation using XPower. Something like a short
tutorial how to go about it?
>
>Thanks,
>Ishita
>



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