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