Some publications by MicReD's staff

The NID method, THERMODEL:

V. Székely: THERMODEL: a tool for compact dynamic thermal model generation. Proceedings of the 2nd THERMINIC Workshop, 25-27 September, 1996 Budapest, pp. 21-26.

V. Székely: Convolution calculus in the network theory and identification, Proceedings of the European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD'97) 30 August - 3 Sept. 1997, Budapest, pp. 49-56.

V. Székely: Identification of RC Networks by Deconvolution: Chances and Limits, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I. Theory and applications, Vol. 45, No. 3, March 1998, pp. 244-258

M. Rencz, V. Székely, Zs. Kohári, B. Courtois: Thermal evaluation and modelling of MEMS packages. Proceedings of the 4th 2000 IEMT/IMC Symposium, 19-21 April, 2000, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 326-331

M. Rencz, V. Székely, Zs. Kohári, B. Courtois: A method for thermal model generation of MEMS packages. Proceedings of MSM 2000, 28-30 March 2000, San Diego, USA., pp.209-212

M. Rencz, V. Székely, Zs. Kohári, B. Courtois: Thermal evaluation and modelling of the SIP9 and SP10 MEMS packages. Proc. of the Itherm 2000, May 23-26, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, pp. 120-126

V. Székely, M. Rencz, A. Poppe, B. Courtois: THERMODEL: A tool for thermal model generation, and application for MEMS packages, Proceedings of the SPIE DTIP Conference, 9-11 May, 2000, Paris, France, pp. 39-49

M. Rencz, V. Székely, Zs. Kohári, B. Courtois: Thermal evaluation and modelling of MEMS packages. Proceedings of the 4th 2000 IEMT/IMC Symposium, 19-21 April, 2000, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 326-331


SUNRED:

V. Székely, M. Rencz: Fast field solver programs for thermal and electrostatic analysis of microsystem elements, Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, 9-13 November, 1997, San Jose, CA, USA, pp. 684-689

Zs. Kohári, V. Székely, M. Rencz, V. Dudek, B. Höfflinger: Studies on the heat removal features of stacked SOI structures with a dedicated field solver program. Proceedings of ESSDERC'97, 27th European Solid-State Device Research Conference, 22-24 September, 1997, Stuttgart, Germany, pp. 496-499

V. Székely: SUNRED: a new thermal simulator and typical applications, Proceedings of the 3rd THERMINIC Workshop, September 21-23, 1997, Cannes, France, pp. 84-90.

V. Székely, M. Rencz, A. Páhi, A. Poppe, Sz. Hajder: Thermal simulation tools for microsystem elements. Proceedings of MSM'98, 6-8 April, 1998, Santa Clara, California, USA, pp. 463-468

V. Székely, M. Rencz: Fast Field Solvers for Thermal and Electrostatic Analysis, Proceedings of DATE'98, 23-26 February, 1998, Paris, France, pp. 518-523

A. Páhi, V. Székely: Efficient thermal simulators: SUNRED and Quick THERM, Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Design, Test and Applications, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 8-10 June, 1998, pp. 85-88, ISBN 953-184-009-1

Zs. Kohári, V. Székely, M. Rencz, A. Páhi, V. Dudek, B. Höfflinger: Studies on the heat removal features of stacked SOI structures with a dedicated field solver program (SUNRED) Journal of Microelectronics Reliability, 38, 1998, pp. 1881-1891

A. Páhi, V. Székely, M. Rosenthal, M. Rencz: 3D extension of the SUNRED field solver, Proceedings of the 4th THERMINIC Workshop, Sept. 27-29, 1998, Cannes, pp. 185-190

V. Székely, A. Páhi, M. Rosenthal, M. Rencz: SUNRED: a field solver and compact model generator tool based on successive mode reduction. Proceedings of MSM'99, 19-21 April, 1999, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA, pp. 342-345

A. Morrissey, J. Alderman, G. Kelly, Zs. Kohári, A. Páhi, M. Rencz: Packaging and thermal evaluation of thermally operated intelligent micropump unit. Microelectronics Journal, Vol. 30, No. 11, Nov. 1999, pp. 1109-1114

V. Székely, A. Páhi, M. Rencz: SUNRED, a new field solving approach. Proceedings of the Symposium on Design, Test and Microfabrication of MEMS/MOEMS, 30 March - 1 April, 1999, Paris, France, pp. 278-288

V. Székely, A. Páhi, A. Poppe, M. Rosental, T. Teszéri, M. Rencz: Thermal time constant analysis and implementation in the THERMAN and SUNRED thermal simulation tools. Proceedings of the 5th THERMINIC Workshop, 2-6 October, Rome, Italy, pp. 343-348

M. Rencz, V. Székely, Zs. Kohári, S. Ress, A. Páhi, A. Poppe: Thermal evaluation of the SIP9 package. Proceedings of the 5th THERMINIC Workshop, 2-6 October, Rome, Italy, pp. 111-116

M. Rencz, V. Székely, Zs. Kohári, B. Courtois: Thermal evaluation and modelling of MEMS packages. Proceedings of the 4th 2000 IEMT/IMC Symposium, 19-21 April, 2000, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 326-331

V. Székely, A. Poppe, M. Rencz: Algorithmic extension of thermal field solvers: the time constant analysis. Proceedings of the SEMI-THERM Symposium, 21-23 March, 2000, Double Tree Hotel, San Jose, CA, USA, pp. 99-106

M. Rencz, V. Székely, Zs. Kohári, B. Courtois: A method for thermal model generation of MEMS packages. Proceedings of MSM 2000, 28-30 March 2000, San Diego, USA., pp.209-212

M. Rencz, V. Székely, Zs. Kohári, B. Courtois: Thermal evaluation and modelling of the SIP9 and SP10 MEMS packages. Proceedings of Itherm 2000, 23-26 May, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, pp. 120-126

V. Székely, A. Poppe, M. Rencz: User friendly thermal simulators for research and education. Proceedings ISSE 2000, Balatonfüred, May 6-10. 2000, Hungary.

M. Rencz, V. Székely, A. Poppe, B. Courtois: Friendly tools for the thermal simulation of power packages. Proceedings of IWIPP, 14-15 July, 2000. Waltham, MA, USA, pp. 51-54


THERMAN:

V. Székely, A. Csendes, M. Rencz: mS-THERMANAL: An efficient thermal simulation tool for microsystem elements and MCM's. Proceedings of the 2nd THERMINIC Workshop, 25-27 September, 1996 Budapest, pp. 13-20

V. Székely, A. Csendes, M. Rencz: mS-THERMANAL: An efficient thermal simulation tool for microsystem elements and MCM's. SPIE'96 Symposium on Micromachining and Microfabrication, 14-15 October 1996, Austin, Texas USA, SPIE Proc. Vol. 2880, pp. 64-75.

V. Székely, M. Rencz: Fast field solver programs for thermal and electrostatic analysis of microsystem elements, Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, Nov. 9-13, San Jose, CA, USA, pp. 684-689

V. Székely, M. Rencz, A. Páhi, A. Poppe, Sz. Hajder: Thermal simulation tools for microsystem elements. Proceedings of MSM'98, April 6-8, 1998, Santa Clara, California, USA, pp. 463-468

V. Székely, M. Rencz: Fast Field Solvers for Thermal and Electrostatic Analysis, Proceedings of DATE'98, February 23-26, 1998, Paris, France, pp. 518-523

A. Csendes, V. Székely, M. Rencz: An efficient thermal simulation tool for IC's, microsystem elements and MCM's: the µS-THERMANAL, Microelectronics Journal, Vol. 29, No. 4-5, pp. 241-256, 1998

V. Székely, A. Poppe, M. Rencz, M. Rosental, T. Teszéri: THERMAN: a thermal-simulation tool for IC chips, microstructures and PW boards. Proceedings of MIXDES'99, 6th International Conference, Krakow, Poland, 17-19 June, 1999, pp. 331-336

V. Székely, A. Páhi, A. Poppe, M. Rosental, T. Teszéri, M. Rencz: Thermal time constant analysis and implementation in the THERMAN and SUNRED thermal simulation tools. Proceedings of the 5th THERMINIC Workshop, 2-6 October, Rome, Italy, pp. 343-348

V. Székely, A. Poppe, M. Rencz: Algorithmic extension of thermal field solvers: the time constant analysis. Proceedings of the SEMI-THERM Symposium, March 21-23, 2000, Double Tree Hotel, San Jose, CA, USA, pp. 99-106

V. Székely, A. Poppe, M. Rencz, M. Rosental, T. Teszéri: THERMAN: a thermal simulation tool for IC chips, microstructures and PW boards. Microelectronics Reliability, Vol. 40, pp. 517-524, 2000

V. Székely, A. Poppe, M. Rencz: User friendly thermal simulators for research and education. Proceedings of ISSE 2000, Balatonfüred, May 6-10. 2000, Hungary.

M. Rencz, V. Székely, A. Poppe, B. Courtois: Friendly tools for the thermal simulation of power packages. Proceedings of IWIPP 2000, July 14-15, 2000. Waltham, MA, USA, pp. 51-54

M. Rencz, A. Poppe, V. Székely, B. Courtois: Inclusion of RC compact models of packages into board level thermal simulation tools, SEMI-THERM 2002, March 12-14 2002,San Jose, CA, USA

V. Székely, M. Rencz, A. Poppe, G. Farkas: User friendly tools for the thermal simulation and modeling of electronic subsystems, EurosimE 2002, 15-16 April 2002, Paris, France, Proceedings.

M. Rencz, V. Székely, B. Courtois: An algorithm for the inclusion of RC compact models of packages into board level thermal simulation tools, Intl. Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems, MSM 2002, April 22-25, 2002, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Proceedings.


Thermal transient testing, evaluation, T3Ster:

V. Székely, M. Rencz, B. Courtois: Thermal transient testing of the quality of encapsulation. MCM Test Workshop, September 15-18, 1996, Napa, California, pp. 25-31

V. Székely, M. Rencz, B. Courtois: Thermal Transient Testing. In Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on Microelectronics, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 6-10 October, 1996, pp. 18-23

V. Székely: A New Evaluation Method of Thermal Transient Measurement Results, Microelectronics Journal, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 277-292, (1997)

V. Székely, M. Rencz, B. Courtois: Thermal testing methods to increase system reliability. In Proceedings of SEMI-THERM, Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium, January 28-30, 1997 Austin, Texas, USA, pp. 210-217

V. Székely, Cs. Márta, M. Rencz, S. Török, G. Farkas: Advances in the thermal testing of ICs, 3rd THERMINIC Workshop, September 21-23, 1997, Cannes, France, pp. 5-10.

V. Székely, M. Rencz, B. Courtois: A Step Forward in the Transient Thermal Characterization of Packages. 1997 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Microelectronics (ISHM'97), Philadelphia, USA, pp. 296-301

V. Székely, M. Rencz, B. Courtois: Thermal Transient Testing. Microelectronics International England, No. 43 May, 1997

V. Székely, M. Rencz, S. Török, G. Végh, Zs. Benedek, Cs. Márta, J. Mizsei: Advances in the thermal measurement and evaluation technics, Proceedings of the 4th THERMINIC Workshop, 27-29 September 27-29, 1998, Cannes, France, pp. 5-10.

V. Székely, M. Rencz, B. Courtois: A step forward in the transient thermal characterization of chips and packages. Microelectronics Reliability, January 1999, Vol. 39, Nr. 1, pp. 89-96

V. Székely, S. Ress, A. Poppe, S. Török, D. Magyari, Zs. Benedek, B. Courtois, M. Rencz: Transient thermal measurements for dynamic package modeling: new approaches. Proceedings of the 5th THERMINIC Workshop, 2-6 October, 1999, Rome, Italy, pp. 7-11

V. Székely, S. Ress, A. Poppe, S. Török, D. Magyari, Zs. Benedek, K. Torki, B. Courtois, M. Rencz: New approaches in the transient thermal measurements. Microelectronics Journal Vol.3: 9-10, pp 727-734, 2000.

V. Székely, G. Farkas, É. Nokodémusz, M. Rencz, S. Ress, S. Török: New procedures for thermal transient testing. Proceedings of the 6th THERMINIC Workshop, 24-27 September, 2000, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 15-19

V. Székely, M. Rencz, S. Török, S. Ress, B. Vizy: Experiments on effective board thermal conductivity measurements. Proceedings of the 6th THERMINIC Workshop, 24-27 September, 2000, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 26-30

S. Ress, E. Kollár: Comparison of various thermal transient measurement methods on a benchmark package. Proceedings of the 6th THERMINIC Workshop, 24-27 September, 2000, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 120-122

V. Székely, M. Rencz, B. Courtois: New tools for the thermal transient testing of packages and MCMs. Proceedings of the 7th Annual KGD Packaging & Test Workshop, September 10-13, 2000. Napa, CA, USA, pp. 269-284

V. Székely, M. Rencz, A. Poppe, B. Courtois: New hardware tools for the thermal transient testing of packages, Proceedings of the 3rd Electronics Packaging Technology Conference, (EPTC) 2000, 5-7 December, 2000, Singapore

M. Rencz, V. Székely, A. Poppe, G. Farkas, B. Courtois: New tools and methods for the thermal transient testing of packages. HD International 2001. Santa Clara, CA, USA, April 18-20. 2001, Proceedings pp 268-273

V. Székely, É. Nikodémusz, L. Pohl, M. Rencz: New developments in thermal transient testing. MIXDES 2001, Zakopane, Poland, 21-23 June, 2001

V. Székely, M. Rencz, L. Pohl: Novelties in the theory and practice of thermal transient measurements, THERMINIC Workshop, Sept.24- 27, Paris, France, 2001, Proceedings pp. 239-244

M. Rencz,V. Székely: Determining partial thermal resistances in a heat flow path with the help of transient measurements, THERMINIC Workshop, Sept.24-27, Paris, France, 2001,Proceedings pp 250-255

M. Rencz,V. Székely, A. Poppe, G. Farkas, B.Courtois: New methods and supporting tools for the thermal transient testing of packages, APACK 2001, Singapore, 5-7 dec. 2001

M. Rencz: Dynamic Temperature Analysis of Electronic Systems. Future Circuits International, Issue 7, ISSN:1368-4361, pp 51-54, 2001

V. Székely, M. Rencz, S. Török, S. Ress: Calculating effective board thermal parameters from transient measurements. Accepted to the, IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, Dec.2001

M. Rencz, V. Székely, B. Courtois: Uncovering die attach problems with the help of thermal transient measurements. SEMICON WEST 2001, San Jose, CA, USA, July 18-20, 2001, Proceedings pp 63-76, SEMI

M. Rencz: New possibilities in the thermal evaluation offered by transient testing, invited talk at THERMES 2002, January 13-16, 2002,Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

M. Rencz, V. Székely, A. Morelli, C. Villa: Determining partial thermal resistances with transient measurements and using the method to detect die attach discontinuities, SEMI-THERM 2002, March 12-14 2002, San Jose, CA,USA

A. Poppe, V. Székely: Dynamic Temperature Measurements: Tools Providing a Look into Package and Mount Structures, Electronics Cooling Magazine, Vol.8, No.2, May 2002.

M. Rencz: New possibilities in the thermal evaluation offered by transient testing, invited talk at THERMES 2002, January 13-16, 2002,Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, printed in the book of "Thermal Challenges in Next Generation Electronic Systems", ed. Joshi & Garimella, Millpress 2002 Rotterdam, ISBN 90 77017038, pp 65-74


Thermal test chips:

V. Székely, Cs. Márta, M. Rencz, G. Végh, Zs. Benedek, S. Török: A Thermal benchmark circuit. Proceedings of the 3rd THERMINIC Workshop, 21-23 September, 1997, Cannes, France, pp. 52-54.

V. Székely, Cs. Márta, M. Rencz, S. Török, G. Farkas: Advances in the thermal testing of ICs, Proceedings of the 3rd THERMINIC Workshop, 21-23 September, 1997, Cannes, France, pp. 5-10.

V. Székely, Cs. Márta, M. Rencz, G. Végh, Zs. Benedek, S. Török: A thermal benchmark chip: design and applications. IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing technology, Part A, Sept. 1998, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 399-405

V. Székely, M. Rencz, B. Courtois: Application results of a new thermal benchmark chip, Proceedings of the SEMI-THERM Symposium, 1998, March 1998, San Diego, USA

V. Székely, M. Rencz, B. Courtois: Thermal Transient Testing Without a Tester, Proceedings of SEMICON West'98, 13-17 July, 1998, San Jose, USA, Proceedings, pp. D1-10/Section II.

A. Poppe, G. Farkas, M. Rencz, Zs. Benedek, L. Pohl, V. Székely, K. Torki, S. Mir, B. Courtois: Design of a scalable multi-functional thermal test die with direct and boundary scan access for programmed excitation and measurement data acquisition. Proceedings of the 6th THERMINIC Workshop, 24-27 September, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 267-272

M. Rencz: The increasing importance of thermal test dies. Electronics Cooling, Vol. 6, Nr. 3, Sept. 2000, pp. 34-42

A. Poppe, G. Farkas, M. Rencz, Zs. Benedek, L. Pohl, V. Székely, K. Torki, S. Mir, B. Courtois: Design issues of a multi functional intelligent thermal test die. Proceedings of the SEMI-THERM 2001, San Jose, CA, USA, March 20-22, 2001

Zs. Benedek, B. Courtois, G. Farkas, E. Kollár, S. Mir, A. Poppe, M. Rencz, V. Székely, K. Torki: A scalable multi-functional thermal test chip family: Design and evaluation. Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Electronic Packaging, Vol 123, No.4, Dec. 2001, pp 323-330


Temperature sensors:

V. Székely: CMOS Compatible temperature sensors. Journal on Communications, Vol. 47, pp. 13-17, May, 1996

V. Székely, Cs. Márta, Zs. Kohári, M. Rencz: New temperature sensors for DfTT applications. Proceedings of the 2nd THERMINIC Workshop, 25-27 September, 1996 Budapest, pp. 49-55

V. Székely, M. Rencz, B. Courtois: Integrating on-chip temperature sensors into DfT schemes and BIST architectures, Proceedings of the 15th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Monterey, Ca, USA, Apr. 27-30, 1997, pp. 440-446

Cs. Márta, V. Székely, M. Rencz, B. Courtois: Self-Checking Current Output Temperature Sensor for DfTT. Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, Aghia Pelaghia, Crete, Greece, July 7-9, 1997, pp. 75-78

V. Székely, M. Rencz, B. Courtois: Thermal testing of MCMs using Boundary-Scan access, Proceedings of the Advanced Technology Workshop, September 14-17, 1997, Napa Valley, California, USA,

V. Székely, M. Rencz, S. Török, Cs. Márta, L. Lipták-Fegó: CMOS temperature sensors and built-in test circuitry for thermal testing of ICs, Sensors and Actuators A Physical, Vol. A 71, no. 1-2, Nov. 1998, pp. 10-18.

V. Székely: Thermal testing and control by means of built-in temperature sensors. Electronics Cooling, Vol. 4, Nr. 3, September 1998, pp. 36-39

V. Székely, M. Rencz, Cs. Márta, B. Courtois: Thermal monitoring through boundary scan, Proceedings of the MCM Test V Advanced Technology Workshop, Napa Valley, CA, Sept. 20-23, 1998, USA - pp.

V. Székely, M. Rencz, A. Páhi, B. Courtois: Thermal monitoring and testing of electronic systems. IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, , Vol. 22, No. 2., June 1999, pp. 231-237


Thermal Transient Measurement Kit - TTMK:

V. Székely, M. Rencz, B. Courtois: Thermal Transient Testing Without a Tester, Proceedings of SEMICON West'98, 13-17 July, 1998, San Jose, USA, pp. D1-10/Section II.

V. Székely, M. Rencz, B. Courtois: Thermal transient testing of packages without a tester. Proceedings of IMAPS'98, 1-4 November, 1998, San Diego, USA,

V. Székely: Thermal testing and control by means of built-in temperature sensors. Electronics Cooling, Vol. 4, Nr. 3, September 1998, pp. 36-39

V. Székely, M. Rencz, B. Courtois: Thermal transient testing of packages without a tester. Proceedings of EPTC'98, 8-10 December, 1998, Singapore, Proceedings, pp. 236-239

V. Székely, M. Rencz, B. Courtois: Thermal Transient Evaluation of Packaging with the TTMK Toolkit. Proceedings of the InterPACK'99 Conference, Maui, Hawaii, USA, June 13-17, 1999, pp. 2199-2206

V. Székely, M. Rencz, B. Courtois: Tool and Method for the Thermal Transient Evaluation of Packages, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Microelectronics and Micro-Electromechanical Systems, 27-29 October, 1999, Royal Pines Resort, Queensland, Australia, Vol. 3893, pp. 94-103

V. Székely, S. Ress, A. Poppe, S. Török, D. Magyari, Zs. Benedek, B. Courtois, M. Rencz: Transient thermal measurements for dynamic package modeling: new approaches. Proceedings of the 5th THERMINIC Workshop, 2-6 October, Rome, Italy, pp. 7-11

V. Székely, M. Rencz, A. Poppe, B. Courtois: New Way for Thermal Transient Testing. Proceedings of SEMI-THERM, March, 1999, San Diego, USA, pp. 182-188

A. Poppe, G. Farkas, M. Rencz, Zs. Benedek, L. Pohl, V. Székely, K. Torki, S. Mir, B. Courtois: Design of a scalable multi-functional thermal test die with direct and boundary scan access for programmed excitation and measurement data acquisition. Proceedings of the 6th THERMINIC Workshop, 24-27 September, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 267-272

V. Székely, S. Ress, A. Poppe, S. Török, D. Magyari, Zs. Benedek, K. Torki, B. Courtois, M. Rencz: New approaches in the transient thermal measurements. Microelectronics Journal Vol.31:9-10, pp 727-734, 2000.


Multi-port compact thermal models, electro-thermal simulation:

M. Rencz, V. Székely: A generic method for thermal multiport model generation of IC packages. SEMI-THERM 2001, San Jose, CA, USA, March 20-22, 2001, Proc. pp 145-152

M. Rencz, V. Székely: Dynamic thermal multiport modeling of IC packages. Paper that was winning the 2000 Harvey Rosten Award for Excellence. The authors received the award at SEMI-THERM 2001.

M. Rencz, V. Székely, B. Courtois: A method for generating dynamic thermal multiport models of packages. InterPACK'01, Kaual, Hawaii, USA, July 8-13, 2001

A. Poppe, M. Rencz, V. Székely, G. Mezei: Development of a platform independent electro-thermal simulator, THERMINIC Workshop, Sept.24-27, Paris, France, 2001, Proceedings pp 275-280

M. Rencz, V. Székely: Dynamic thermal multiport modeling of IC packages. IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, Dec.2001

 
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