Thermal effects are becoming increasingly important during integrated circuit design. Thermal characteristics influence reliability, power consumption, cooling costs, and performan...
3-D IC has a great potential for improving circuit performance and degree of integration. It is also an attractive platform for system-on-chip or system-in-package solutions. A cr...
This paper presents both compact analytical models and fast SPICE based 3-D electro-thermal simulation methodology to characterize thermal effects due to Joule heating in high per...
Three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D ICs) offer a promising solution to overcome the on-chip communication bottleneck and improve performance over traditional two-dimensional...
The capability of predicting the temperature profile is critically important for timing estimation, leakage reduction, power estimation, hotspot avoidance and reliability concerns ...