3D-ICE Version 4.0 is out!

By John | 18 December 2025

3D-ICE 4.0 is a powerful 3D Interlayer Cooling Emulator, which can deliver accurate and efficient thermal modeling for modern 2.5D/3D heterogeneous chiplet systems. 3D-ICE 4.0 supports modeling detailed material distribution across layers, directly imported from industrial layouts. To handle complex multi-layer stacks, 3D-ICE introduces adaptive layer partitioning and thermal-aware non-uniform […]

3D-ICE cooling – 20 year retrospective published

By John | 30 October 2025

Congratulations to David Atienza, Kai Zhu, Darong Huang and Luis Costero for this excellent paper, published in IEEE Design & Test. This survey covers more than two decades of research on power and thermal modeling and management in modern processors. The authors compare analytical, regression-based, and neural network-based techniques for […]

CHIMP Begins

By John | 29 January 2024