Ebook: Three Dimensional Integrated Circuit Design: EDA, Design and Microarchitectures

This book presents an overview of the field of 3D IC design, with an

emphasis on electronic design automation (EDA) tools and algorithms

that can enable the adoption of 3D ICs, and the architectural

implementation and potential for future 3D system design. The aim of

this book is to provide the reader with a complete understanding of:

• the promise of 3D ICs in building novel systems that enable the chip

industry to continue along the path of performance scaling,

• the state of the art in fabrication technologies for 3D integration,

• the most prominent 3D-specific EDA challenges, along with solutions

and best practices,

• the architectural benefits of using 3D technology,

• architectural-and system-level design issues, and

• the cost implications of 3D IC design.

Three Dimensional Integrated Circuit Design: EDA, Design and Microarchitectures is intended for practitioners in the field, researchers and graduate students seeking to know more about 3D IC design.

---

This book provides the reader with a complete understanding of why three dimensional IC design is a promising solution to continue performance scaling, the possible ways to do 3D integration (fabrication), the EDA challenges and solutions to facilitate designers to do 3D IC design, the architectural benefits of using 3D technology, and the design issues at the architecture level. The work covers the background on 3D integration, fabrication options for 3D ICs, EDA flows and algorithms for 3D design, architecture level design techniques for 3D microarchitecture. The book includes an introduction on the background of 3D IC, a motivation that explains why the 3D IC is important and how it will trend, 3D process (fabrication) options, 3D EDA algorithms and tools (physical level and architectural level tools), 3D microarchitecture, including 3D FPGA, 3D single core/multi core processors, 3D Network-onchip designs.