With technology scaled to deep submicron regime, temperature and temperature gradient have emerged as important design criteria. Elevated temperatures, spatial and temporal temperature variations and on-chip hotspot not only affect timing in both transistors and interconnects but also degrade circuit reliability. A SPICE simulation based thermal modeling method is proposed in this paper. Experiments on a set of tests show the correlations between functional and spatial hotspots in a circuit implemented in STM 65nm technologies.

On-chip Thermal Modeling Based on SPICE Simulation / Wei, L.; Calimera, Andrea; Nannarelli, A.; Macii, Enrico; Poncino, Massimo. - ELETTRONICO. - 5953:(2010), pp. 66-75. (Intervento presentato al convegno 19th International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation, PATMOS 2009 tenutosi a Delft (NL) nel September 9-11, 2009) [10.1007/978-3-642-11802-9_11].

On-chip Thermal Modeling Based on SPICE Simulation

CALIMERA, ANDREA;MACII, Enrico;PONCINO, MASSIMO
2010

Abstract

With technology scaled to deep submicron regime, temperature and temperature gradient have emerged as important design criteria. Elevated temperatures, spatial and temporal temperature variations and on-chip hotspot not only affect timing in both transistors and interconnects but also degrade circuit reliability. A SPICE simulation based thermal modeling method is proposed in this paper. Experiments on a set of tests show the correlations between functional and spatial hotspots in a circuit implemented in STM 65nm technologies.
2010
9783642118012
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