Statistical estimation of average power dissipation using nonparametric techniques

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-73

  Yuan, Li Pen ^a   Teng, Chin Chi ^b   Kang, Sung Mo ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b SYNOPSYS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Power estimation; Reliability; Statistical techniques

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE DISTRIBUTION INDEPENDENT POWER ESTIMATION (DIPE);

DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0032026484     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/92.661249     Document Type: Article

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