High-level Power Estimator Functions For Analog Filters

This work focuses on the construction of power estimators for the high-level synthesis of analog front-ends and more precisely on power estimators for analog filters. A power estimator is a function that returns an estimated value for the power consumed by a functional block when given some relevant specifications as input and without knowing the detailed implementation of the block. After some initial attempts with theoretical formulas, search algorithms were applied to find an estimator function with improved accuracy. The tentative conclusion of these experiments is that no one-fits-all closed function exists that estimates the power consumption of filters on a very high-level within a satisfactory accuracy, due to the large diversity of filter implementations. Keywords— High-level models, Analog filters, Power consumption