Paper Info
Title
An efficient leakage-aware thermal simulation approach for 3D-ICs using corrected linearized model and algebraic multigrid.
Abstract
Thermal control has become a great challenge for 3D-ICs due to the ever increasing power density and 3D integration. Among techniques to address the problem, fast thermal simulation approach is basically required to accurately characterize the runtime temperature variations of 3D-ICs. In this paper, we propose an accurate and fast leakage-aware thermal simulation approach for 3D-ICs with consideration of both heatsink cooling and microfluidic cooling. First, the proposed approach is based on a corrected linearized model for leakage power approximation, which is proved to be equivalent to the Newton-Chord method for solving nonlinear algebra equations. A convergence comparison is presented in this paper to show that such approach is more efficient than other methods for leakage-aware thermal simulation. Second, an aggregation-based algebraic multigrid (AMG) preconditioned iterative linear solver is adopted that greatly reduces the computation time for solving the linear equations during calculation, which makes the proposed approach even more efficient. Numerical experiments show that the proposed approach can achieve 8× −139× speedup in comparison with the state-of-the-art methods, and with almost negligible average temperature error no more than 0.025K and maximum temperature error no more than 0.095K.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
DATE
Convergence (routing),Linear equation,Applied mathematics,Mathematical optimization,Nonlinear system,Computer science,Iterative method,Parallel computing,Solid modeling,Multigrid method,Computation,Speedup
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
1530-1591
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chao Yan179.62
Hengliang Zhu28513.49
Dian Zhou326056.14
Xuan Zeng440875.96