{"id":18216,"date":"2026-02-02T14:11:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=18216"},"modified":"2026-02-02T14:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:11:53","slug":"thermonat-hace-que-la-prediccion-termica-a-nanoescala-sea-practica-para-el-diseno-de-chips-del-mundo-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=18216","title":{"rendered":"Thermonat hace que la predicci\u00f3n t\u00e9rmica a nanoescala sea pr\u00e1ctica para el dise\u00f1o de chips del mundo real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A medida que la microelectr\u00f3nica avanza mucho m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de la escala de 10 nan\u00f3metros, el calor se ha convertido en una de las barreras m\u00e1s importantes para el rendimiento de los chips de pr\u00f3xima generaci\u00f3n. Integrar miles de millones, o incluso billones, de transistores en chips del tama\u00f1o de una u\u00f1a concentra, el calor en estructuras cada vez m\u00e1s peque\u00f1as, donde queda atrapado y degrada el rendimiento, acelera los defectos y, en \u00faltima instancia, puede provocar fallos en el dispositivo.\u00a0Los fabricantes de chips necesitan herramientas que puedan predecir estos fallos t\u00e9rmicos antes de invertir a\u00f1os y cientos de millones de d\u00f3lares en la fabricaci\u00f3n. Sin embargo, las herramientas de modelado comerciales existentes no han podido capturar completamente el flujo de calor a escala nanom\u00e9trica, mientras que los m\u00e9todos atom\u00edsticos emergentes, si bien pueden ser precisos, a menudo requieren semanas o meses de ejecuci\u00f3n, lo que los hace poco pr\u00e1cticos para los ciclos de dise\u00f1o del mundo real.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>As microelectronics push far below the 10-nanometer scale, heat has become one of the most significant barriers to next-generation chip performance. Packing billions, or even trillions, of transistors into fingernail-sized chips concentrates heat in ever-smaller structures, where it becomes trapped and degrades performance, accelerates defects, and can ultimately cause device failure.<\/p>\n<p>Chipmakers need tools that can predict these thermally driven failures before investing years and hundreds of millions of dollars in fabrication. But existing commercial modeling tools have not been able to fully capture nanoscale heat flow, while emerging atomistic methods may be accurate but often require weeks or months to run, making them impractical for real-world design cycles.<\/p>\n<p>DARPA\u2019s Microsystems Technology Office launched the Thermal Modeling of Nanoscale Transistors (Thermonat) effort to close this gap. Thermonat aimed to combine the accuracy of atom-level physics with the speed required for industry design timelines, targeting predictions within 1\u00b0C of ground truth and reducing computation time by more than 1,000x.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Thermonat teams pushed the boundaries of what is possible in chip-scale thermal prediction,\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/about\/people\/yogendra-joshi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Yogendra Joshi, Thermonat\u2019s program manager at DARPA<\/a>. \u201cBy connecting fundamental physics with design-ready tools, they created capabilities that can accelerate innovation for both national-security applications and the broader semiconductor industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Thermonat performers didn\u2019t stop once they delivered on these ambitious technical goals; they\u2019ve built on their successes and to pursue a range of commercial pathways for their wpork.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where Physics Meets the Marketplace<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One research team, led by the University of Colorado Boulder, formed a startup, AtomTCAD Inc., to bring its high-accuracy thermal modeling tools directly to semiconductor designers. The newly formed company has received funding from the Colorado Office of Economic Development &amp; International Trade, and all four members of AtomTCAD\u2019s research team received fellowships through the University of Colorado Boulder\u2019s Ascent Deep Tech Accelerator.<\/p>\n<p>IBM, another Thermonat performer, has already integrated key elements of its atoms-to-circuits modeling approach into internal product design kit (PDK) processes. With this adoption, IBM has seen that designers can evaluate technology options earlier in development and generate thermally informed layouts more quickly than they could previously.<\/p>\n<p>And DeepSim, a startup working with Stanford University under Thermonat, has gained early commercial traction. The company was selected for Y Combinator, a highly-sought after accelerator program, raised seed funding, and is in active discussions with several semiconductor companies to commercialize its DARPA-enabled modeling capabilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rapid Exploration, Lasting Impact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thermonat was launched under MTO\u2019s Microsystems Exploration (\u00b5E) initiative, a rapid-start mechanism that allows DARPA to quickly probe emerging research directions through short-duration, high-risk, high-reward explorations. Thermonat exemplified this approach by delivering foundational advances in modeling, predicting, and verifying heat flow in advanced semiconductor devices \u2013 all in under 18 months \u2013 while also positioning new commercial entrants to advance national-security needs and bolster U.S. technological competitiveness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fuente:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/news\/2026\/thermonat-nanoscale-thermal-prediction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>https:\/\/www.darpa.mil<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A medida que la microelectr\u00f3nica avanza mucho m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de la escala de 10 nan\u00f3metros, el calor se ha convertido en una de las barreras&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,23,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18218,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18216\/revisions\/18218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}