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“We collaborated with Gradient on HeatWave, which is a full-chip transient electro-thermal simulator. Simulation results for a chip containing power transistors and temperature sensors, taken over a two second interval, correlated well with measured data.”

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SEMI-THERM 2012 paper: Robustness Optimization of Power MOSFETs under Inductive Breakdown FutureFab July 2011: Thermal Design Issues -- Impacting Design to Packaging, pages 43-48 (6.65MB) IEEE Micro May/June 2011: Temperature-Aware Architecture: Lessons and Opportunities ISQED 2011 paper: Switching Constraint-driven Thermal and Reliability Analysis of Nanometer Designs EPEPS 2010 paper: Thermal-Aware Reliability Analysis of Nanometer Designs THERMINIC 2010 paper: Electro-thermal modeling of multi-trenched MOS power transistors THERMINIC 2010 paper: Improve Thermal Profile of Memory-on-Logic 3DICs by Tier-swapping DAC User Track 2010 paper: A Practical Approach to Thermal Modeling and Validation of 3D ICs EuroSimE 2010 paper: Electro-thermal modeling/characterization of large lateral PNP drivers
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