Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
11 years agoPowerPlay Total Thermal Power Dissipation vs. Thermal Power Dissipation by Hierarchy
I'm trying to wrap my head around the output of a basic PowerPlay analysis, and hope someone out there can clarify these results for me.
I've configured PowerPlay to use a 100% toggle rate for input I/O signals (trying to get an estimate of the absolute worst-case power usage) and to use vectorless estimation for remaining signals. After running the PowerPlay analysis, the "Summary" menu contains: Total Thermal Power Dissipation: 906.82 mW Core Dynamic Thermal Power Dissipation: 180.22 mW Core Static Thermal Power Dissipation: 682.94 mW I/O Thermal Power Dissipation: 43.65 mW However, when I go to the "Thermal Power Dissipation by Hierarchy" menu, I see total thermal powers like: <top-level entity> 198.79 mW '- ... 29.02 mW '- ... 0.00 mW '- ... 0.00 mW '- ... 23.50 mW '- ... 12.65 mW '- ... 111.57 mW So, why does the total thermal power of the top-level entity not match the 906.82 mW total thermal power dissipation (or any of the other power dissipations) from the summary menu? Thanks in advance.