Abstract

We propose a methodology for the generation of sleep modes traces. Sleep mode traces identify idle times of components in a design and are used in state-of-the-art power optimization approaches. While designers are currently forced to generate them manually, our graph-based method enables a full automation of this process. We implemented our methodology in a framework, that we call SMoSi. Experiments show that SMoSi generates sleep mode traces in reasonable time for a given design.