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Guide to obtain dynamic power of my design

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AB_1717495972235 8 months ago

Hello all,

From several weeks now, I've been trying to get the dynamic power of my design. However, I've only been able to get the static power from Genus.

For example:

Power Unit: W
PDB Frames: /stim#0/frame#0
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Category         Leakage     Internal    Switching        Total    Row%
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------
      memory     0.00000e+00  0.00000e+00  0.00000e+00  0.00000e+00   0.00%
    register     1.23106e-07  8.42686e-05  4.01981e-06  8.84115e-05  37.10%
       latch     0.00000e+00  0.00000e+00  0.00000e+00  0.00000e+00   0.00%
       logic     2.31871e-07  8.73342e-05  4.26836e-05  1.30250e-04  54.65%
        bbox     0.00000e+00  0.00000e+00  0.00000e+00  0.00000e+00   0.00%
       clock     8.50375e-09  1.71590e-05  2.49055e-06  1.96581e-05   8.25%
         pad     0.00000e+00  0.00000e+00  0.00000e+00  0.00000e+00   0.00%
          pm     0.00000e+00  0.00000e+00  0.00000e+00  0.00000e+00   0.00%
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Subtotal     3.63480e-07  1.88762e-04  4.91940e-05  2.38319e-04 100.00%
  Percentage           0.15%       79.21%       20.64%      100.00% 100.00%
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------

Is there any step-by-step resource where I can start to obtain dynamic power?

My understanding is that first, I need to obtain a waveform by design by designing a test bench, and with this, I will be able to obtain the dynamic power, which would be something given in joules units, not watts.

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