tag: thermal management

Innovation And Collaboration In Power Module Packaging: A Thermal Perspective
By Thomas Wang - 17 Apr, 2025 - Comments: 0

Power modules are the foundation of modern electrical systems, especially within electric vehicles (xEVs), industrial motor applications, and renewable energy solutions such as wind and solar power. As the demand for more power in smaller and lighter systems grows, managing heat dissipation has become a major challenge, as the thermal energy from high current flows can lead to reliability issue... » read more

Chiplets Add New Power Issues
By Ann Mutschler - 13 Mar, 2025 - Comments: 0

Delivering and managing power are becoming key challenges in the rollout of chiplets, adding significantly to design complexity and forcing chipmakers to weigh tradeoffs that can have a big impact on the performance, reliability, and the overall cost of semiconductors. Power is a concern for every chip and chiplet design, even if the specifics differ based on the application. Systems vendors... » read more

Thermally Aware Chiplet Placement Algorithm Based on Automatic Differentiation (MIT, IBM)
By Technical Paper Link - 07 Mar, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "DiffChip: Thermally Aware Chip Placement with Automatic Differentiation" was published by researchers at MIT and IBM. Abstract "Chiplets are modular integrated circuits that can be combined to form a larger system, offering flexibility and performance enhancements. However, their dense packing often leads to significant thermal management challenges, requiring ... » read more

Lines Blurring Between Supercomputing And HPC
By Ann Mutschler - 27 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 1

Supercomputers and high-performance computers are becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate due to the proliferation of AI, which is driving huge performance increases in commercial and scientific applications and raising similar challenges for both. While the goals of supercomputing and high-performance computing (HPC) have always been similar — blazing fast processing — the mark... » read more

Signal Integrity Plays Increasingly Critical Role In Chiplet Design
By Ann Mutschler - 13 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 1

Maintaining the quality and reliability of electrical signals as they travel through interconnects is proving to be much more challenging with chiplets and advanced packaging than in monolithic SoCs and PCBs. Signal integrity is a fundamental requirement for all chips and systems, but it becomes more difficult with chiplets due to reflections, loss, crosstalk, process variation, and various ... » read more

Direct-To-Chip Liquid-Cooled Data Centers (Binghamton, Nvidia)
By Technical Paper Link - 22 Nov, 2024 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Parameters of performance: A deep dive into liquid-to-air CDU assessment" was published by researchers at Binghamton University-SUNY and NVIDIA. Abstract: "The rapid growth in data center workloads and the increasing complexity of modern applications have led to significant contradictions between computational performance and thermal management. Traditional air... » read more

Managing The Huge Power Demands Of AI Everywhere
By Ann Mutschler - 14 Nov, 2024 - Comments: 1

Before generative AI burst onto the scene, no one predicted how much energy would be needed to power AI systems. Those numbers are just starting to come into focus, and so is the urgency about how to sustain it all. AI power demand is expected to surge 550% by 2026, from 8 TWh in 2024 to 52 TWh, before rising another 1,150% to 652 TWh by 2030. Commensurately, U.S. power grid planners have do... » read more

Advanced Packaging Drives Test And Metrology Innovations
By Gregory Haley - 12 Nov, 2024 - Comments: 1

Advanced packaging has become a focal point for innovation as the semiconductor industry continues to push for increased transistor density and better performance. But the pace of change is accelerating, making it harder for the entire ecosystem to keep up with those changes. In the past, major developments were roughly on an 18-month to 2-year cadence. Today, this is happening every few mon... » read more

Batteries Look Beyond Lithium
By Bryon Moyer - 07 Nov, 2024 - Comments: 1

Lithium batteries dominate today’s rechargeable battery market, and while they have been wildly successful, challenges with lithium have spurred research into alternative chemistries that can improve on some of lithium’s downsides and still keep as many of the upsides as possible. So far, none of the alternative batteries has seen commercial success, but several variants have moved beyon... » read more

Early Architecture Performance and Power Analysis of Multi-Die Designs
By Synopsys - 30 Oct, 2024 - Comments: 0

Despite the clear advantages of multi-die designs, there are numerous new challenges that stand in the way of multi-die design realization. This white paper focuses on those challenges that can be addressed by early architecture exploration of multi-die designs, including: -System pathfinding -Memory utilization and coherency -Power/thermal management Find out how to overcome such chall... » read more

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