Toolset for measuring thermal behavior of FPGA devices

In this work, we present a toolset suitable for the analysis of thermal behavior of FPGA devices. The toolset allows for the automatic synthesis of a unified temperature measurement and heat generation infrastructure combined with the necessary control structures and communication interfaces. The tools insert temperature sensors and heaters based on ring oscillators through the low level manipulations on Xilinx Design Language descriptions of FPGA resource allocations. The purpose of the kit is to support rapid setup of thermal experiments by providing basic heating and sensing elements with verified properties as well as an area-optimised IP core for control of the experiments.