THERMAN example - logi-thermal simulation results of a VLSI IC |
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Courtesy
of TIMA Laboratory, Grenoble, France |
This is a simulation
example which highlights an important feature of THERMAN: in case simple
dissipating shapes only the execution time of a steady-state or AC simulation
is independent of the layout complexity. This snapshot was taken at the
TIMA Laboratory (Grenoble,
France) where research concerning thermal simulation of large VLSI circuits
is being done. In this case THERMAN was integrated into a widely used IC
design framework. The chip layout taken from the design framework was flattened
and converted into THERMAN's input format. Dissipation values assigned to
standard cells or macro blocks were set proportional to the toggle count
of the element in question. |
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