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Item Fluidic Cooling and Gate Size Co-optimization in 3D-ICs: Pushing the Power-Performance Limits(2013) Shi, Bing; Srivastava, Ankur; Srivastava, AnkurThe performance improvement of modern computer systems is usually accompanied by increased computational power and thermal hotspots, which in turn limit the further improvement of system performance. In 3D-ICs, this thermal problem is significantly exacerbated, necessitating the need for active cooling approaches such as micro-fluidic cooling. This paper investigates a co-optimization approach for 3D-IC electric (gate sizing) and cooling design that fully exploits the interdependency between power, temperature and circuit delay to push the powerperformance tradeoff beyond conventional limits. We propose a unified formulation to model this co-optimization problem and use an iterative optimization approach to solve the problem. The experimental results show a fundamental power-performance improvement, with 12% power saving and 16% circuit speedup.Item Co-optimization of TSV assignment and micro-channel placement for 3D-ICs(2012) Bing, Shi; Ankur, Srivastava; Caleb, Serafy; Ankur, SrivastavaThe three dimensional circuit (3D-IC) brings forth new challenges to physical design such as allocation and management of through-silicon-vias (TSVs). Meanwhile, the thermal issues in 3D-IC becomes significant necessitating the use of active cooling schemes such as micro-channel liquid coolings. Both TSVs and micro-channels go through the interlayer regions of 3D-IC resulting in potential resource conflict, which deters the optimization of both micro-channel design and TSV allocation/management. This paper investigates the co-optimization of TSV assignment to interlayer nets and micro-channel allocation such that both wirelength and micro-channel cooling energy are co-optimized. We propose a multi-commodity flow based formulation followed by simplifying transformations that enable use of effective polynomial time heuristics. The experimental results show that, our co-optimization approach achieves 46% cooling power savings or 7.6% wire length reduction compared with the approaches that assign TSVs and allocate micro-channels separately.Item TSV-Constrained Micro-Channel Infrastructure Design for Cooling Stacked 3D-ICs(2011-05-11) Shi, Bing; Srivastava, AnkurMicro-channel based liquid cooling has significant capability of removing high density heat in 3D-ICs. The conventional micro-channel structures investigated for cooling 3D-ICs use straight channels. However, the presence of TSVs which form obstacles to the micro-channels prevents distribution of straight micro-channels. In this paper, we investigate the methodology of designing TSV-constrained micro-channel infrastructure. Specifically, we decide the locations and geometry of micro-channels with bended structure so that it's cooling e®ectiveness is maximized. Our micro-channel structure could achieve up to 87% pumping power saving compared with the micro-channel structure using straight channels.