Physical Design for 3D Integrated Circuits

8	Design Methodology for 3D Power Delivery Networks*
Aida Todri-Sanial

CONTENTS

Abstract

8.1    Introduction

8.1.1    Power and Thermal Integrity Issues on 3D PDNs

8.1.2    Prior Work

8.2    Preliminaries

8.3    Motivational Experiment

8.3.1    Re-Utilization of Optimized 2D PDNs on 3D-ICs

8.3.2    Circuit Area Increase due to Nonuniform Voltage Drop and Temperature Rise

8.4    3D PDN Analysis

8.4.1    Electrical Modeling and Analysis

8.4.1.1    Electrical Modeling

8.4.1.2    Electrical Analysis

8.4.2    Thermal Modeling and Analysis

8.4.2.1    Thermal Modeling

8.4.2.2    Thermal Analysis

8.5    3D PDN Optimization Method

8.5.1    3D PDN Stand-Alone Optimization

8.5.2    3D PDN and TSV-Sizing Co-Optimization

8.6    Experiments

8.6.1    Impact ...