On Supporting Rapid Thermal Analysis

Detailed thermal analysis is usually performed exclusively at design time since it is a computationally intensive task. In this paper, we introduce a novel methodology for fast, yet accurate, thermal analysis. The introduced methodology is software supported by a new open source tool that enables hi...

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Published in:IEEE computer architecture letters 2011-07, Vol.10 (2), p.53-56
Main Authors: Siozios, K., Rodopoulos, D., Soudris, D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Complexity theory
Computational modeling
Computer Systems Organization
Hardware
Modeling techniques
Monitoring
Performance of Systems
Power Management
Reconfigurable hardware
Software tools
Thermal analysis
Thermal sensors
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Summary:Detailed thermal analysis is usually performed exclusively at design time since it is a computationally intensive task. In this paper, we introduce a novel methodology for fast, yet accurate, thermal analysis. The introduced methodology is software supported by a new open source tool that enables hierarchical thermal analysis with adaptive levels of granularity. Experimental results prove the efficiency of our approach since it leads to average reduction of the execution overhead up to 70% with a penalty in accuracy ranging between 2% and 8%.
ISSN:1556-6056
1556-6064
DOI:10.1109/L-CA.2011.19