Impact of parameter accuracy on 3D design

Author

Beece, Adam ; Rose, Ken ; Zhang, Tong ; Lu, Jiang-Qian

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Comput., & Syst. Eng., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

28-30 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

Simulator accuracy is an important, but seldom examined, part of study on 3D integration. This paper examines inaccurate technology parameters as a source of error for the CACTI and PRACTICS cache simulation tools. By replacing the default parameters with ones derived from information made available in the literature, CACTI simulation error for the 90 nm Itanium2 L3 cache is eliminated almost entirely. We evaluate the effect of this change in technology parameters on 3D design by comparing simulations that use the default parameter values to those using the newly derived ones.

Keywords

CAD; cache storage; software tools; 3D design; CACTI cache simulation tool; PRACTICS cache simulation tool; parameter accuracy; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Computer errors; Delay; Design engineering; Integrated circuit modeling; Integrated circuit technology; Predictive models; Routing; Systems engineering and theory; 3D Integration; CACTI; Cache; Modeling; PRACTICS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

3D System Integration, 2009. 3DIC 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4511-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4512-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/3DIC.2009.5306560

Filename

5306560