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Table 1 Power estimation tools.

From: Power/Energy Estimator for Designing WSN Nodes with Ambient Energy Harvesting Feature

Power tool

Platform

Analysis level

SPICE [28]

General-purposes circuit design

PCB/Transistor

Simbed [29]

Motorola M-CORE platforms

Architectural

Skyeye [30]

MIPS platform

Instruction

eSimu [31]

ARM9 platform

Instruction

EMSIM [32]

StrongARM platform

Instruction

Softwatt [33]

Embra, Mipsy, MXS platforms

OS

powerTOSSIM [34]

TinyOS simulator on Mica2

OS

PowerOpt [35] ChipVision

Low-power system synthesis C/SystemC to VerilogRTL

Architetural + instruction

SoftExplorer [36]

CPU power Estimation tool

Functional +instruction

Interconnect Explorer [37]

Interconnections tool

Architectural

C.A.T [38]

Power estimation platform

All