Random walk algorithm for large thermal RC network analysis
Jun Guo, Sheqin Dong, Satoshi Goto · 2009
The heat diffusion model of IC chip is equivalent to electrical resistors and capacitors (RC) network. Instead of using direct methods to solve the network equations, a novel statistical method based on random walk techniques was proposed for thermal RC network analysis in this paper. The corresponding 2 dimension temperature distribution was derived finally. Experimental results show the simulation results are accurate enough to satisfy the error margin and the proposed method is much faster than the general method for large scale network analysis.