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Title: Adaptive Cooling of Integrated Circuits Using Digital Microfluidics Author(s): Krishnendu Chakrabarty Pages: 206 Publisher: Artech Publication date: 2007 Language: English Format: PDF ISBN-10: 1596931388 ISBN-13: Description: Adaptive Cooling of Integrated Circuits Using Digital Microfluidics
Paik, P.Y.; Pamula, V.K.; Chakrabarty, K.
Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, IEEE Transactions on
Volume 16, Issue 4, April 2008 Page(s):432 - 443
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TVLSI.2007.915434
Summary:Thermal management is critical for integrated circuit (IC) design. With each new IC technology generation, feature sizes decrease, while operating speeds and package densities increase. These factors contribute to elevated die temperatures detrimental to circuit performance and reliability. Furthermore, hot spots due to spatially nonuniform heat flux in ICs can cause physical stress that further reduces reliability. While a number of chip cooling techniques have been proposed in the literature, most are still unable to address the varying thermal profiles of an IC and their capability to remove a large amount of heat is undermined by their lack of reconfigurability of flows. We present an alternative cooling technique based on a recently invented ";digital microfluidic"; platform. This novel digital fluid handling platform uses a phenomenon known as electrowetting, and allows for a vast array of discrete droplets of liquid, ranging from microliters to nanoliters, and potentially picoliters, to be independently moved along a substrate. While this technology was originally developed for a biological and chemical lab-on-a-chip, we show how it can be adapted to be used as a fully reconfigurable, adaptive cooling platform.
# Hardcover: 206 pages
# Publisher: Artech House Publishers; 1 edition (April 30, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1596931388
# ISBN-13: 978-1596931381
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