DVCon Europe 2025
SystemC Modeling Challenge
How good can you predict and analyze power consumption of a small application with a compact SystemC model? Help developers with your ideas!
SystemC is well tailored to model the behavior and timing of Hardware/Software (HW/SW) systems. But can you also model the power consumption at system level? This is the DVCon Europe SystemC modeling challenge! To limit the effort for participants to “creative” modeling effort, the organization provides some templates for evaluation and also a large data set of (real, physical) measurements.
Join the competition and
- Learn how to model and estimate power consumption at system level by a little example – all successful participants get a certificate of appreciation.
- Be among the best – and win one of the great prizes kindly sponsored by Huawei.
Motivation
The power consumption of processors and embedded systems is one of its most relevant features: Power consumption of HW/SW systems limits computing performance, imposes constraints on packaging and cooling, and limits the life-time in or harvester-powered devices. Even worse, power and signal integrity can be affected. Hence, the development process must consider power and energy consumption as early as possible, in the best case by extending an executable specification and with limited efforts.
The challenge of the 2025 DVCon SystemC Modeling Challenge is to estimate energy and power consumption of a SystemC model. The power consumption of a system depends on two things:
- The HW/SW system itself, and
- The use case scenario in which the HW/SW system is used.
As a starting point, we give
- A model of the system, but without the power/energy estimation.
- A data set of measurements of the hardware component’s power consumption.
A solution might use conventional approaches or machine learning. We are curious to see what is better in the end.
The Prizes
1st to 3rd Place
A premium Huawei device, each.
4th to 10th Place
Tablet, Smart Watch, ESP32 Development Kit
Traveling Grants
Are available for up to 5 participating students the traveling costs to the DVCON 2025 Munich is sponsored.
Best Guess Award from Audience
Best guess price from audience / DVCon participants for energy consumption, runtime
Presentation of your approach
Short presentation of approaches in program slot of DVCon Europe
Register for the DVCon Europe Modelling Challenge
This allows you to download the testbench, measurements and example solution.