Happy 25th Birthday FloTHERM !

Happy 25th Birthday FloTHERM !

Late in 1988 two key employees of CHAM (Concentration Heat And Momentum Ltd.), the first commercial CFD vendor and at…

Why Not Just Shove a Heatsink on Top of it? Part 3: Pads, Vias and Undersinking

Why Not Just Shove a Heatsink on Top of it? Part 3: Pads, Vias and Undersinking

An appreciation of heat flow paths is a pre-requisite for good thermal design. If you attempt to augment heat flow…

Why Not Just Shove a Heatsink on Top of it? Part 2: Heat Flow Budgets

Why Not Just Shove a Heatsink on Top of it? Part 2: Heat Flow Budgets

Two different package styles, two very different thermal responses when a extruded plate fin heatsink is placed on each. At…

Why Not Just Shove a Heatsink on Top of it? Part 1

Why Not Just Shove a Heatsink on Top of it? Part 1

A common enough question. Heatsinks are often perceived to be the magic answer to all electronics cooling challenges. They should…

Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 5: Detailed IC Package Model Calibration Methodology

Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 5: Detailed IC Package Model Calibration Methodology

In the royal family of thermal IC package modelling types, a detailed model is King. All critical 3D geometry is…

CFD – Colourful Friday Distractions

CFD – Colourful Friday Distractions

By way of an apology for the more verbose blogs I’ve been issuing recently I’d like to present you with…

Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 4: Compact Thermal Models

Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 4: Compact Thermal Models

Electronics cooling simulation was born out of the world of CFD, rather fully conjugate heat transfer simulation where convective, radiative…

Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 3: JESD51-14

Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 3: JESD51-14

The JESD51-14 standard was published in November 2010, prepared by theĀ  JEDEC JC-15 Committee on Thermal Characterization. It outlines a…

Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 2: TIM Thermal Conductivity

Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 2: TIM Thermal Conductivity

The temperature rise that electronic components attain in operation is due to 3 things. The power that they dissipate, the…