Power Aware Verification

This track introduces the IEEE Std 1801 Unified Power Format (UPF) for specification of active power management architectures and covers the use of UPF in simulation-based power aware verification.

Low Power

Erich Marschner

Last Updated Apr 2013

Sessions
- Introduction to Power Aware Verification
  
  This session introduces the IEEE Std 1801 Unified Power Format (UPF).
  Track Apr 08, 2013 by Erich Marschner
  
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- Overview of UPF
  
  This session gives a quick, high-level overview of the evolution of the UPF standard.
  Track Apr 08, 2013 by Erich Marschner
  
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- Getting Started with UPF
  
  This session presents the core commands and options in UPF 1.0 subset.
  Track Apr 08, 2013 by Erich Marschner
  
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- A Simple UPF Example
  
  This session presents an extended example illustrating the usage of the UPF 1.0 subset.
  Track Apr 08, 2013 by Chuck Seeley
  
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- UPF 2.0 Enhancements
  
  This session presents UPF 2.0 commands and options that improve usability and provide greater flexibility.
  Track Apr 08, 2013 by Chuck Seeley
  
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- Using Supply Sets
  
  This session presents the UPF 2.0 concept of a “supply set” and the related commands and options used for defining and using supply sets.
  Track Apr 29, 2013 by Chuck Seeley
  
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- An Enhanced UPF Example
  
  This session presents an extended example illustrating the usage of the UPF 2.0 features of IEEE Std 1801 UPF for specification of the power management architecture for a simple design.
  Track May 31, 2013 by Chuck Seeley
  
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- Questa Simulation - Power Aware
  
  In this demo, you will learn the UPF based Power Aware features available in Questa PASim.
  Track May 12, 2015 by Chuck Seeley
  
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- Questa Visualizer - Power Aware Debug
  
  In this demo, you will learn the UPF based Power Aware Debug features available in Visualizer with Questa PASim.
  Track Mar 18, 2016 by Chuck Seeley
  
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Overview

Today’s increasingly complex SoCs are typically used in portable systems that must also support increasingly longer battery life and therefore must minimize power consumption. Even non-portable systems must avoid wasting energy, to minimize both power and cooling costs. In both cases, active power management is required to ensure energy efficiency.
Although active power management enables the design of low power chips and systems, it also creates many new verification challenges. This track introduces the IEEE Std 1801 Unified Power Format (UPF) for specification of active power management architectures and covers the use of UPF in simulation-based power aware verification.