Open AccessCircuit Design for Green Communications – Methods, Tools and Examples
Author(s) -
Galia Marinova,
Zdravka Tchobanova
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of business and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2223-8387
DOI - 10.33107/ijbte.2017.5.2.01
Subject(s) - universal software radio peripheral , computer science , field programmable gate array , embedded system , software , spectrum analyzer , electronic design automation , power optimization , circuit design , design flow , power (physics) , electronic engineering , software defined radio , computer hardware , power consumption , engineering , telecommunications , physics , quantum mechanics , programming language
The paper makes an overview of the existing methods applied for circuit design with low power consumption objective. It considers Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools and modules for power consumption estimation at the design stage. For analog and mixed analog-digital circuit design, the power estimation options in ORCAD Design Suit with PSpice and Analog Filter Wizard are studied. For digital communication systems the study covers the power estimation, analysis and optimization in ISE and Vivado systems, Xilinx Power Estimator (XPE) tool and spreadsheet, the XPower Analyzer, as well as similar tools proposed by ALTERA - PowerPlay Early Power Estimator and QUARTUS II Power Play Power Analyzer. Two examples are developed: Power consumption estimation of a Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP)-based communication system design, based on datasheets and software energy monitoring tools, and power consumption estimation of a Kasami pseudo-random sequence generator circuit design on FPGA using Vivado.