System-Level Design with Rosetta

Chapter 19. Power-Aware Modeling Revisited

Although the power-aware model for the TDMA system developed in Chapter 18 supports some predictive analysis in the absence of virtually all design detail, the power model is quite naive and the values discovered will not remain accurate as design decisions are made. The power-aware model is revisited here in several different ways to explore new analysis possibilities.

Technology-specific functional models allow representation of the TDMA algorithm in a manner most appropriate for a specific technology. Although the function of the TDMA remains the same, moving from hardware to software certainly changes the algorithm and implementation. New models for TDMA functions represent technology-specific implementations ...