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®2003
Ting-Yuan Wang
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3D
Thermal-ADI
- A Linear-Time Chip
Level Transient Thermal Simulator
( prototype )
Ting-Yuan
Wang and
Charlie Chung-Ping
Chen
 | Introduction:
The recent study shows that the nonuniform thermal distribution not only
have impacts on the substrate but also the interconnects. Hence 3D Thermal
analysis is crucial to analyze these effects. An efficient three-dimensional
transient thermal simulator based on the alternating direction implicit (ADI)
method is developed for temperature estimation in a three dimensional
environment. The 3D Thermal-ADI simulator not only has a linear
runtime and memory requirement, but also is unconditionally stable.
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| OS Requirement:
PC (Windows based)/ SUN
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| Execution:
ThermalADI [input data file] [input
power density file]
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| File Format Description:
 | The power density input format:
net0 18 18 16 22 38 18
M5
5.21e14
(name) (x1,y1,z1) (x2,y2,z2)
(material) (power density [W/m^3])
Sample input file: Sample_Input.txt. |
| The input data file format:
Please see the files data.txt
and dataReadme.txt for
details.
Each line in the file dataReadme.txt gives the corresponding
meaning of the file data.txt. |
| The generated MatLab files (e.g. Tz15.m, Tx5.m,...) can be viewed in
the MatLab environments as:
>> Temp = load('Tz15.m');
>> contourf(Temp,20); |
| The transient behavior for the chosen point can be seen in the output
file ThermalADI_transient.txt. |
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| Download:
The execution file for PC version is ThermalADI.zip.
The execution file for SUN version is ThermalADI.tar.
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Reference:
[1] Ting-Yuan Wang and Charlie Chung-Ping Chen, "Thermal-ADI: a
Linear-Time Chip-Level Dynamic Thermal Simulation Algorithm based on
Alternating-Direction-Implicit (ADI) method," International Symposium on Physical Design
(ISPD), 2001.
[2] Ting-Yuan Wang, Yu-Min Lee, and Charlie
Chung-Ping Chen, "3D Thermal-ADI: An Efficient Chip-Level Transient
Thermal Simulator,"
International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), 2003.
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| Technical Support:
If you have any technical problem, please email the author Ting-Yuan
Wang (wangt@cae.wisc.edu)
of this tool. Please also report any bug you find to the author. Thanks very
much. |
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