Related Tools and Projects

• VoltSpot
A pre-RTL power delivery network (PDN) model for architecture-level PDN noise and reliability evaluation.
• Prof. Coskun's 3D extension
Prof. Ayse Coskun's research group in Boston University has built an extension to HotSpot. It enables modeling for layers with blocks that have a heterogeneous set of thermal resistivity and heat capacity values. More details on the extension is provided in the appendix of their DAC 2012 paper which you may cite if you use their 3D extension.
• MERCURY
A software suite that emulates temperatures based on simple layout, hardware, and component utilization data.
• Temptor / TILTS
A lightweight runtime temperature monitoring tool using performance counters.
• 3D-ICE
An open library from EPFL which can perform transient thermal analyses of vertically stacked 3D IC with inter-tier Microchannel Liquid Cooling.