Power consumption measurement & configuration time of FPGA

In this paper, we presents results concerning power consumption and configuration time for FPGA. FPGAs re-programmability, flexibility and re-configurability give rise to number of possibilities like adding more and more features, increasing lifetime duration to embedded systems. Power consumption of the peripheral devices is also meaningfully affects by Time behavior. Estimation based on average activity may not being useful for accurate power estimation of system. The configuration time of FPGA depend on configuration data width, size file, clock frequency and flash time access. We measured the total power consumption on each voltage supply and the total configuration time of Spartan-6 FPGA Atlys board using Lab VIEW. Comparison had been made between estimated power value and measured power value. Hence, we believe that our experiment results will be useful to other FPGA-based embedded systems.