PDM Data Export in Text Format - 2024.1 English

Power Design Manager User Guide (UG1556)

Document ID
UG1556
Release Date
2024-05-30
Version
2024.1 English

PDM allows exporting the project data to a file in text format. The data is exported in table format for the blocks that are used in PDM. PDM does not export the information for unused blocks in text report file.

The Export PDM Project Data button is located on the toolbar of the Summary page. Click this button to open the dialog box as shown in the following figure.

Figure 1. Export PDM Project Data

Click on the three dots that the opens another dialog box as shown in the folloiwng image to browse through the directories. PDM writes the file in the .pwr file format.

Figure 2. Summary Page

This option lets you export all the information from the current PDM project as given below.

Summary
Includes summary of total, dynamic, static power, environment settings and DFX usage.
Estimation
Includes detailed power report and configuration of the all blocks
Power Design
Includes detailed information and current consumption across all the power rails, power rail consolidation, sequencing and decoupling cap requirements
Power Management
Includes information on PL power management such as clock gating, frequency scaling and logic gating.

The following figure shows few sections of the content of the exported .pwr file.

Figure 3. .pwr File