Low power consumption has been established as the third main design target for digital systems together with performance and area. Consequently, accurate estimators of the power consumption at the system as well as the lower levels of abstraction are necessary. A large number of embedded computing applications are power or energy critical. Early work on processor analysis had focused on performance improvement without determining the power-performance tradeoffs. Recently, significant research in low power design and power estimation and analysis has been developed. In this project, the measurements taken for the development of instruction-level energy models for microprocessors are presented and analyzed. By combining energy coefficient values, the presented model became much simpler than most proposed models that can speed up the energy estimation process and therefore the development of the embedded systems. Retarget ability is another advantage of our proposed model that makes it easy to adjust the model coefficients for a new platform. The model coefficients can be calibrated by measuring the energy consumption of test programs for the new platform.

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