TY - CONF
T1 - 3D thermal-ADI - An efficient chip-level transient thermal simulator
AU - Wang, Ting Yuan
AU - Lee, Yu-Min
AU - Chen, Charlie Chung Ping
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Recent studies show that the nonuniform thermal distribution on the substrate and interconnects has impact on the circuit reliability and performance. Hence three-dimensional (3-D) thermal analysis is crucial to analyze these effects. In this paper, we present and develop an efficient 3-D transient thermal simulator based on the alternating direction implicit (ADI) method for large scale temperature estimation problems. Our simulator, 3D Thermal-ADI, not only has a linear runtime and memory requirement, but also is unconditionally stable. Detailed analysis of the 3-D nonhomogeneous cases and boundary conditions for on-chip VLSI applications are introduced and presented. Extensive experimental results show that our algorithm is not only orders of magnitude faster than the traditional thermal simulation algorithms, but is also highly accurate and memory efficient. The temperature profile of steady state can be reached in few iterations. The software is avaiable on the web [1].
AB - Recent studies show that the nonuniform thermal distribution on the substrate and interconnects has impact on the circuit reliability and performance. Hence three-dimensional (3-D) thermal analysis is crucial to analyze these effects. In this paper, we present and develop an efficient 3-D transient thermal simulator based on the alternating direction implicit (ADI) method for large scale temperature estimation problems. Our simulator, 3D Thermal-ADI, not only has a linear runtime and memory requirement, but also is unconditionally stable. Detailed analysis of the 3-D nonhomogeneous cases and boundary conditions for on-chip VLSI applications are introduced and presented. Extensive experimental results show that our algorithm is not only orders of magnitude faster than the traditional thermal simulation algorithms, but is also highly accurate and memory efficient. The temperature profile of steady state can be reached in few iterations. The software is avaiable on the web [1].
KW - ADI
KW - Automation
KW - Design
KW - Finite difference methods
KW - Temperature
KW - Thermal simulation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0038379168&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/640000.640007
DO - 10.1145/640000.640007
M3 - Paper
AN - SCOPUS:0038379168
SP - 10
EP - 17
T2 - 2003 International Symposium on Physical Design
Y2 - 6 April 2003 through 9 April 2003
ER -