Power evaluation of Sobel filter on Xilinx platform

Abstract

Power consumption in programmable devices has become a primary factor in design flow. Among the main concerns of power consumption, application performance, battery life, thermal challenges, or reliability, power consumption is crucial in FPGA designs for powered battery equipment. In this paper, we study the FPGA-based design for Sobel Edge Detection algorithm for low cost fall detector and we present an accurate evaluation of dynamic power estimation and real-time measurement. Our work uses Root Mean Square Error index to evaluate the accuracy rate between estimated and measured power consumption... This application is implemented on low-power Zynq-7000 AP SoC family.