Methods and apparatuses for thermal analysis based circuit design

A machine readable medium containing executable computer program instructions which when executed by a digital processing system cause said system to perform a method for circuit design, the method comprising:

• determining, by performing a thermal analysis, a temperature solution and a power dissipation solution for a first design of a circuit, the power dissipation solution and the temperature solution are interdependent, the power dissipation solution and the temperature solution consistent with each other, and
• transforming the first design of the circuit into a second design of the circuit using the temperature solution to improve performance of first design of the circuit under one or more design constraints.

A data processing system for circuit design, the data processing system comprising:

• means for determining by performing a thermal analysis for a first design of a circuit a first temperature solution and a first power dissipation solution, the first power dissipation solution and the first temperature solution being interdependent;
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• means for transforming the first design of the circuit into a second design of the circuit using the first temperature solution to reduce power dissipation of the circuit under a timing constraint.