WP353 - Seven Steps to an Accurate Worst-Case Power Analysis Using Xilinx Power Estimator White Paper: Spartan-3, Virtex-4, and Virtex-5 FPGAs R WP353 (v1.0) September 30, 2008 Seven Steps to an Accurate Worst-Case Power Analysis Using Xilinx Power Estimator (XPE) By: Brian Philofsky Power and cooling specifications for an FPGA design have to be determined early in the product’s design cycle, often even b……