Re: gEDA-dev: Instrumenting Icarus Verilog to estimate energyconsumption?

[Stephen Williams <steve-at-NOSPAMicarus_dot_com>]

Timothy Normand Miller wrote:
> How hard would it be to modify Icarus so that it could be given an
> energy model and generate power consumption estimates?  Presumably,
> this would apply mostly to gate-level simulations where low-level
> gates and other resources are given switching current models.

I think existing tools use as input a VCD (or similar) trace of a
sample run, combined with the data you describe, to make power
estimates. Beyond that, I don't know.

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