Research Progress on VLSI Thermal Aware Design

The thermal problem is one of important challenge for VLSI design.The effective thermal model must be researched and created to solve the thermal problem.This paper introduces the latest advancement in VLSI therma-laware design, including the thermal analysis,relationship between power consumption,temperature-aware in high-level synthesis,resistive thermal model,unified high-level synthesis and physical design,creating thermal model and solutions for thermal problem,such as thermal vias,voltage islands and dynamic thermal management.