Power Analysis of Embedded Systems - The PKtool Simulation Environment

The estimation of power dissipation at system level allows to consider the specification of power dissipation in the first phases of the design process. This paper describes the main features and components of the PKtool simulation environment, a power estimation tool recently made available and easily integrable in a SystemC/C++ workflow. The final part of the chapter reports an example where PKtool has been used to evaluate the power performances of the Bluetooth communication protocol.

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