W2590ET Datasheet, PDF (3/4 Pages) Keysight Technologies – HeatWave Electro-Thermal Simulator

03 | Keysight | HeatWave Electro-Thermal Simulator - Data Sheet
HeatWave Features
–– HeatWave fits into the standard electronic design automation (EDA) ecosystem
and makes use of existing IC design data, such as layout and power-source values
& geometries. Its integration with the analog design flow automates device level
computer aided design (CAD) data exchange, so that you can simulate the full chip
temperature, without laborious data preparation.
–– The output includes a full-chip temperature profile at the resolution of the IC layout
feature sizes, provided as a graphically viewable 3-D database, and a tempera-
ture annotated netlist for circuit simulation. This gives you thermally-aware circuit
simulation which shows the impact of temperature on your circuit performance and
reliability.
–– HeatWave provides commands to automatically monitor temperature values and
variations, to help you detect thermal hazards for your design.
–– HeatWave can be run in interactive graphical user interface (GUI) mode, enabling
you to navigate in 3 dimensions throughout the chip and to visually inspect the tem-
peratures on devices, metal layers, and other design objects.
–– HeatWave can also be run from a script, enabling integration of results into other
analysis tools.
Inputs
–– Design layouts
–– Package data
–– Power sources
–– Technology file
Outputs
–– Temperature-aware circuit simulation results and a temperature-annotated netlist.
–– List of converged temperatures and power values of all power-sources.
–– Temperature profile saved as an archive, viewable as surface (2-D) and volume (3-D)
plots.
Product Versions:
–– Heatwave: Transient and steady state thermal analysis
–– HeatWaveSS Analog: Steady state thermal analysis for analog designers
–– Available on 64 bit Linux
Figure 2. Max. temperature in a 50V N-type
vertical DMOS driver transistor. Measured
and simulated thermal impulse response.
Note the last data-point measured sepa-
rately at 1000 s.