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8th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'07)
Future Prediction of Self-Heating in Short Intra-Block Wires
San Jose, California
March 26-March 28
ISBN: 0-7695-2795-7
Kenichi Shinkai, Osaka University, Japan
Masanori Hashimoto, Osaka University, Japan
Takao Onoye, Osaka University, Japan
This paper predicts self-heating effect in a short intra-block wire will arise as a design issue with technology scaling. The short intra-block wires are close to the substrate and thought to have good thermal radiation characteristic, however, we reveal that the self-heating of short wires will be more significantly than that of global wires, and it can cause a reliability and performance degradation in the future. The max temperature rise from the ambient temperature becomes 27.3C in a 14 nm process. Our attribution analysis also clarifies that shrinking wire cross-sectional area as well as low-k material and increased power dissipation deteriorates self-heating. Experimental results also reveal that the self-heating of local wires will be getting worse than repeater-inserted global wires.
Citation:
Kenichi Shinkai, Masanori Hashimoto, Takao Onoye, "Future Prediction of Self-Heating in Short Intra-Block Wires," isqed, pp.660-665, 8th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'07), 2007
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