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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
>