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3D ICs can alleviate problems caused by long interconnects in traditional 2D chips by stacking layers and using short vertical interconnects between layers. This approach improves chip performance and density. However, 3D ICs also introduce thermal and reliability challenges due to heat dissipation issues and stresses between layers that must be addressed. Rent's rule can be used to estimate performance improvements from 3D architectures by analyzing reductions in total interconnect length.
![3D IC The New Edge of design
Subhash Chandra
Student Member, IEEE
BIT Muzaffarnagar
U.P, India
csubhash07@gmail.com
Abstract- The unprecedented growth of the Information
technology firm is demanding Very Large Scale (VLSI)
circuit with increasing functionality and performance at
the min. cost and power dissipation. VLSI circuits are
aggressively scaled to meet this demand, which in turn
has some serious problem for the semiconductorfirm.
Additionally heterogeneous integration of different
technologies increasingly desirable, for which planer (2-
D) IC`s may not be suitable. 3-D ICs are an attractive chip
architecture that can alleviate the interconnect related
problems such as delay and power dissipation and can
also facilitate integration of heterogeneous technologies
in one chip (SoC). The multi-layer chip industry opens up
a whole new world of design. With the Introduction of 3-
D ICs, the world of chips may never look the same again
Keywords: SoC, VLSI, 2D IC, Heat energy
I.INTRODUCTION
There is a saying in real estate; when land get
expensive, multi-storied buildings are the alternative
solution. We have a similar situation in the chip
industry. For the past thirty years, chip designers
have considered whether building integrated circuits
multiple layers might create cheaper, more powerful
chips. Performance of deep-sub micrometer very
large scale integrated (VLSI)[1] circuits is being
increasingly dominated by the interconnects due to
increasing wire pitch and increasing die size.
Additionally, heterogeneous integration[2] of
different technologies on one single chip is becoming
increasingly desirable, for which planar (2-D) ICs[3]
may not be suitable. The three dimensional (3-D)
chip design strategy exploits the vertical dimension to
alleviate the interconnect related problems and to
facilitate heterogeneous integration of technologies to
realize system on a chip (SoC)[4] design. By simply
dividing a planar chip into separate blocks, each
occupying a separate physical level interconnected by
short and vertical interlayer interconnects
(VILICs)[5], significant improvement in performance
and reduction in wire-limited chip area can be
achieved. In the 3-Ddesign architecture, an entire
chip is divided into a number of blocks, and each
block is placed on a separate layer of Si that are
stacked on top of each other.
What is 3D-IC?
A chip in three-dimensional integrated circuit (3D-
IC) technology iscomposed of two or more layers of
active electronic components, integrated both
vertically and horizontally.
II.MOTIVATION FOR 3-D IC`s
Continuous scaling of VLSI circuits is reducing gate
delays butrapidly increasing interconnect delays. A
significant fraction of the total powerconsumption
can be due to the wiring network used for clock
distribution, whichis usually realized using long
global wires.Furthermore, increasing drive for the
integration of disparate signals(digital, analog, RF)
and technologies (SOI, SiGe, GaAs, and so on) is
introducing various SoC design concepts,for which
existing planner (2-D) ICdesign may not be suitable.
INTERCONNECT LIMITED VLSI
PERFORMANCE
In single Si layer (2-D) ICs, chip size is continuously
increasing despitereductions in feature size made
possible by advances in IC technology such
aslithography and etching. This is due to the ever
growing demand for functionalityand
highperformance, which causes increased complexity
of chip design,requiring more and more transistors to
be closely packed and connected. Smallfeature sizes
have dramatically improved device performance. The
impact of thisminiaturization on the performance of
interconnect wire, however, has been lesspositive.
Smaller wire cross sections, smaller wire pitch, and
longer line totraverse larger chips have increase the
resistance and capacitance of these lines,resulting in a
significant increase in signal propagation (RC) delay.
Asinterconnect scaling continues, RC delay is
increasingly becoming the dominantfactor
determining the performance of advanced IC’s.
PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS OF Cu
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![At 250 nm technology node, Cu with low-k dielectric
was introduced toalleviate the adverse effect of
increasing interconnect delay.However,below130nm
technology node, substantial interconnect delays
would result in spite ofintroducing these new
materials, which in turn will severely limit the chip
performance. Further reduction in interconnect delay
is not possible.This problem is especially acute for
global interconnects[6], which compriseabout 10% of
total wiring in current architectures. Therefore, it is
apparent thatmaterial limitations will ultimately limit
the performance improvement astechnology scales.
Also, the problem of long lossylines[7] cannot be
fixed bysimply widening the metal lines and by using
thicker interlayer dielectric, sincethis will leas to an
increase in the number of metal layers. This will
result in anincrease in complexity, reliability and
cost.
III. 3D ARCHITECTURE
Three-dimensional integration to create multilayer Si
ICs[8] is a concept that can significantly improve
interconnect performance ,increase transistor packing
density, and reduce chip area and power dissipation.
Additionally 3D ICs can be very effective large scale
on chip integration of different systems. In 3D design
architecture, and entire(2D) chips is divided into a
number of blocks is placed on separate layer of Si
that arestacked on top of each other. Each Si layer in
the 3D structure can have multiple layer of
interconnects(VILICs) and common global
interconnects.
IV.CHALLENGES FOR 3-D INTEGRATION
A) THERMAL ISSUES IN 3-D ICs
An extremely important issue in 3-D ICs is heat
dissipation. Thermal effect s are already known to
significantly impact interconnected/device reliability
and performance in high-performance 2-D ICs. The
problem isexpected to be exacerbated by the
reduction in chip size, assuming that samepower
generated in a 2-D chip will now be generated in a
smaller 3-D chip,resulting in a sharp increase in the
power and density Analysis of thermalproblems in 3-
D circuits is therefore necessary to comprehend the
limitations ofthis technology and also to evaluate the
thermal robustness of different 3-Dtechnology and
design options.It is well known that most of the heat
energy[9] in integrated circuits arisesdue to transistor
switching. This heat energy is typically conducted
through thesilicon substrate to the package and then
to the ambient by a heat sink .Withmulti layer device
designs, devices in the upper layer will also generate
asignificant fraction of the heat .Furthermore, all the
active layers will beinsulated from each other by
layers of dielectrics[10] (LTO, HSQ, polyamide, etc.)
which typically have much lower thermal
conductivity than Si .Hence ,the
heatdissipationissue can become even more acute
for 3-D ICs and can causedegradation in device
performance ,and reduction in chip reliability due
toincreased junction leakage, electro migration
failures ,and by accelerating otherfailure
mechanisms.
B) RELIABLITY ISSUES IN 3-D ICs
Three dimensional IC s will possibly introduce some
new reliabilityproblems. These reliability issues may
arise due to the electro thermal andthermo
mechanical effects between various active layers and
the interfacesbetween the active layers, which can
also influence existing IC reliability hazardssuch a
electro migration and chip performance.
Additionally, heterogeneousintegration of
technologies using 3-d architecture will increase the
need tounderstand mechanical and thermal behavior
of new material of new materialinterfaces and thin
film material thermal and mechanical properties.
V.AREA AND PERFORMANCE ESTIMATION
OF 3D ICs
Now we present a methodology that can be used to
provide an initialestimate of the area and
performance of high speed logic circuits fabricated
usingmultiple silicon layer IC technology. The](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
