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STEAM: a fast compact thermal model for two-phase cooling of integrated circuits

Sridhar, Arvind  
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Madhour, Yassir  
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Atienza, David  
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2013
Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference On Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)

Two-phase liquid cooling of computer chips via microchannels etched directly on silicon dies is a potential long-term solution to enable continued integration of high-performance multiprocessors. Two-phase cooling refers to the heat removal via evaporation of a refrigerant flowing inside a heat sink. While possessing superior cooling properties, large-scale use of this technology in the industry is limited by the lack of thermal modeling tools that can accurately predict temperatures in a two-phase cooled IC. In this paper, we propose STEAM, a new compact thermal model for 2D/3D ICs with two-phase cooling via silicon microchannels. The accuracy of the STEAM model is validated against measurements from a real two-phase cooled IC test stack reported previously in literature. Temperatures were predicted with an average error as low as 10.2% for uniform heat fluxes and 6.9% for hotspots. Finally, the STEAM model is applied to a realistic 3D multiprocessor system-on-chip (3D MP-SoC) with two-phase cooling to simulate IC temperatures and the refrigerant pumping power, demonstrating the applicability of STEAM in the early-stage design of near-future high-performance computers with two-phase cooling.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/ICCAD.2013.6691127
Web of Science ID

WOS:000331072100038

Author(s)
Sridhar, Arvind  
Madhour, Yassir  
Atienza, David  
Brunschwiler, Thomas
Thome, John  
Date Issued

2013

Publisher

IEEE/ACM Press

Publisher place

New York

Published in
Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference On Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
ISBN of the book

978-1-4799-1071-7

Total of pages

8

Start page

256

End page

263

Subjects

CAD

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Two-phase cooling

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integrated circuits

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cooling

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Thermal modeling

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liquid cooling

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two-phase cooling

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thermal-aware design

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3D ICs

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)

San Jose. California, USA

November 18-21, 2003

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June 2, 2014
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