Sensitivity of FPGA Power Evaluation
Kara K.W. Poon and Steven J.E. Wilton
IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, 2001
Abstract
Power dissipation is becoming a major concern among
FPGA vendors. Recently, architectural studies have been
published which attempt to quantify the effects of various
architectural alternatives on the power dissipation of
FPGAs. These studies are very sensitive to assumptions
made during the experimentation. In this paper, we
analyze the sensitivity of two of these assumptions: the
primary input density and the routing algorithm. We
show that both of these assumptions significantly impact
the architectural results.
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