Use of the combined-fine-coarse mesh transmission line matrix method for the thermal modelling of integrated circuits

Author

Xiao, Hua ; Wong, ChiChung ; Reeves, Geoffrey K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. & Electr. Eng., R. Melbourne Inst. of Technol., Vic., Australia

Volume

3

fYear

1997

fDate

9-12 Jun 1997

Firstpage

1616

Abstract

An improved CFCM TLM method in the time domain is described. The proposed method is used to study the thermal behaviour of thin film resistor arrays. It is shown that adequate thermal isolation can be achieved when resistor elements are sitting on isolated polyimide islands. It is further shown that the transient performance of the device is not compromised

Keywords

integrated circuit modelling; thermal analysis; thin film resistors; time-domain analysis; transmission line matrix methods; TLM method; combined-fine-coarse mesh; integrated circuits; isolated polyimide islands; thermal behaviour; thermal isolation; thermal modelling; thin film resistor arrays; transient performance; transmission line matrix method; Crosstalk; Integrated circuit modeling; Integrated circuit technology; Microelectronics; Resistors; Thermal conductivity; Thermal engineering; Thermal resistance; Transistors; Transmission line matrix methods;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1997. ISCAS '97., Proceedings of 1997 IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3583-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1997.621441

Filename

621441