W2590ET Datasheet, PDF (2/4 Pages) Keysight Technologies – HeatWave Electro-Thermal Simulator

02 | Keysight | HeatWave Electro-Thermal Simulator - Data Sheet
Benefits to IC Designers
–– HeatWave enables your circuit simulator to show how temperature affects your
circuit’s performance, helping you to neutralize adverse temperature effects before
committing to fabrication.
–– By computing an accurate operational temperature profile within the IC, HeatWave
reveals hotspots and excessive temperature variations in precision circuitry.
–– HeatWave enhances your ability to detect reliability and wear out/lifetime issues,
using accurate and realistic temperature data.
Figure 1. Temperature surface plot showing peaks, calculated from the actual power dissipated by
each device, and temperature troughs, caused by heat conduction of the solder bumps.
Applications
–– Thermally-Accurate Circuit Simulation
HeatWave provides your circuit simulator with instance-specific temperatures that
are computed using the full knowledge of the layout geometry, layer material prop-
erties, power dissipation, and package.
–– Reliability and Lifetime Analysis
Temperature is a strong driver of most IC failure mechanisms, such as electro-mi-
gration, NBTI/PBTI, TDDB, etc. HeatWave computes the actual temperature of each
device and wire segment, to enable accurate reliability and failure rate estimates.
–– Thermal Simulation with Incomplete Layout
HeatWave can be used as a thermal floor-planning tool, to help avoid thermal haz-
ards early in the design cycle. HeatWave can provide accurate thermal simulations
of one or more defined regions on a chip, while only using layout and power abstrac-
tions for the remainder of the partially designed chip.