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If you use this software or a modified version of it, please cite the most 
relevant among the following papers: 

1) K. Skadron, M. R. Stan, W. Huang, S. Velusamy, D.  Tarjan, and K.
   Sankaranarayanan. "Temperature-Aware Microarchitecture." In Proceedings of
   the 30th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, June 2003

2) W. Huang, M. R. Stan, K. Skadron, K. Sankaranarayanan, S. Ghosh, and
   S. Velusamy. "Compact Thermal Modeling for Temperature-Aware Design." 
   In Proceedings of the 41st Design Automation Conference, June 2004.

3) K. Sankaranarayanan, S. Velusamy, M. R. Stan and K. Skadron, "A Case 
   for Thermal-Aware Floorplanning at the Microarchitectural Level." 
   In the Journal of Instruction-Level Parallelism, June 2005.

4) W. Huang, K. Sankaranarayanan, R. J. Ribando, M. R. Stan and K. Skadron.
   "An Improved Block-Based Thermal Model in HotSpot 4.0 with Granularity 
   Considerations." In Proceedings of the Workshop on Duplicating, 
   Deconstructing, and Debunking, in conjunction with the 34th International 
   Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2007.

5) W. Huang, K. Sankaranarayanan, K. Skadron, R. J. Ribando and M. R. Stan.
   "Accurate Pre-RTL Temperature-Aware Design Using a Parameterized, Geometric
   Thermal Model" In IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol.57, No.8, August 2008.

6) W. Huang, K. Skadron, S. Gurumurthi, R. J. Ribando and M. R. Stan.
   "Differentiating the Roles of IR Measurement and Simulation of Power and 
   Temperature-Aware Design" In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International 
   Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS).
   April. 2009
