@techreport{TR-IC-05-17,
  number = {IC-05-17},
  author = {F. Klein and R. Azevedo and G. Araujo},
  title = {Enabling High-Level Switching Activity Estimation using SystemC},
  month = {August},
  year = {2005}, 
  institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas},
  note = {In English, 12 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract}
       This paper presents an alternative methodology to a traditional
       high-level power estimation flow, that enables the fast
       gathering of switching activity from SystemC RTL
       descriptions. The proposed methodology requires minimum effort
       from the designer, while reducing the steps necessary to obtain
       switching activity information, and requires only a C++
       compiler.  The resulting activity is very close to the results
       obtained using a commercial tool, which has a larger flow with
       several steps.  We also show that our approach overcomes some
       drawbacks in the commercial tool.
  }
}