.. _Area_and_energy_model:

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Area and Energy Model
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The area/power/energy are evaluated and added up with the area/power/energy report of basic building blocks.

Basic building blocks for area/power/energy costs include PE (MAC), L1 buffer (SRAM), L2 buffer (SRAM), NoCs (bus and arbiters).

To plug in customized area/power/energy cost values, please refer to `cost-model/include/design-space-exploration/DSE_cost-database.hpp`.