A temperature-aware simulation environment for reliable ULSI chip design
In this paper, we present a temperature-aware simulation environment, iTAS, which has been developed fur the design of thermally reliable ultra-large scale integrated (ULSI) chips, This environment provides advisory information from the early chip design phase to the post-layout analysis phase. Several important applications, including temperature-sensitive timing analysis, efficient on-chip hot-spot identification, and thermally reliable package design are addressed. iTAS can be used not only for reliability checking, but also for better thermal engineering to enhance the overall chip performance.
simulation reliability timing circuits temperature