Detecting non-functional circuit activity in SoC designs

Keywords: clocks, embedded systems, integrated circuit design, system-on-chip, SoC designs, RTL design, internal graph representation, open source processor, commercial RTL simulator, average register toggle activity, exact same circuit output, clock gating architecture, commercial ASIP, nonfunctional circuit activity detection, Registers, Integrated circuit modeling, Clocks, Databases, Tools, Transfer functions, Boolean functions

Bachelor’s thesis