• DocumentCode
    3213205
  • Title

    Thermal runaway avoidance during burn-in

  • Author

    Vassighi, Arman ; Semenov, Oleg ; Sachdev, Manoj

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    25-29 April 2004
  • Firstpage
    655
  • Lastpage
    656
  • Abstract
    In deep sub-micron technologies, increased standby leakage current in high performance processors results in increased junction temperature. Elevated junction temperature causes further increase on the standby leakage current. The standby leakage current is expected to increase even more under the burn-in environment leading to still higher junction temperature and possibly the thermal runaway. In this paper we investigate the thermal management of high performance processors during burn-in.
  • Keywords
    integrated circuit reliability; semiconductor device breakdown; semiconductor device reliability; thermal resistance; thermal stresses; burn-in; deep sub-micron technologies; high performance processors; increased junction temperature; standby leakage current; thermal runaway avoidance; Acceleration; Bismuth; Leakage current; Microprocessors; Ovens; Power dissipation; Temperature; Thermal management; Thermal resistance; Thermal stresses;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Reliability Physics Symposium Proceedings, 2004. 42nd Annual. 2004 IEEE International
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8315-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RELPHY.2004.1315436
  • Filename
    1315436