J4 ›› 2009, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (6): 1053-1058.

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Full chip temperature optimization for considering thermal-electric coupling effects

LENG Peng;DONG Gang;CHAI Chang-chun;YANG Yin-tang   

  1. (Ministry of Education Key Lab. of Wide Band-Gap Semiconductor Materials and Devices, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China)
  • Received:2008-09-05 Online:2009-12-20 Published:2010-01-20
  • Contact: LENG Peng E-mail:lengpeng77@163.com

Abstract:

Based on the fact that convergent results reflecting the feedback between power and temperature can be found by using the available power model and HotSpot software, a method is proposed for full chip temperature optimization. In the model, thermal-electric coupling effects among delay, power and temperature are taken into consideration. Simulations for the AMD Athlon 64 processor in 90-nm technology are given. Results show that the optimized chip temperature characteristics with lower temperature, decreased power and temperature gradients can be achieved.

Key words: delay, power, buffer insertion, thermalelectric coupling

CLC Number: 

  • TN405.97