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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2006
Fereydoon Dadkhah, Fishers, IN (US);
John M. Dikeman, Kokomo, IN (US);
Gregory M. Hutchinson, Greentown, IN (US);
Fereydoon Dadkhah, Fishers, IN (US);
John M. Dikeman, Kokomo, IN (US);
Gregory M. Hutchinson, Greentown, IN (US);
Delphi Technologies, Inc., Troy, MI (US);
Abstract
The present invention includes a method for performing a thermal analysis, including the steps of determining size and placement of each of a plurality of drivers on an integrated circuit device. The determined size and placement of each driver is stored as layout data and the layout data is converted into input for a finite element analysis program. The input is applied to the finite element analysis program, and the finite element analysis program is used to construct a finite element mesh of the integrated circuit device from the input. Additionally, material properties are assigned to the finite element mesh, and a thermal analysis is performed of the finite element mesh to generate data in a thermal analysis report.