Do you know the way to San Jose?

Do you know the way to San Jose?

One of the highlights of the electronics thermal management calender is the annual SEMI-THERM symposium held in sunny San Jose,…

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 6 – Baffles and Bottlenecks

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 6 – Baffles and Bottlenecks

For a blog series focused on thermal design there has been precious little design presented so far. Design is the…

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 5 – Time for a FloBEER

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 5 – Time for a FloBEER

All good things come to those who wait. For beer this entails a trade off between anticipation and satisfaction. If,…

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 4 – FloBEER

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 4 – FloBEER

As the ancient proverb goes; a beer fridge without beer is like X Factor, utterly pointless. You’d have thought that…

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 3 – Side Up or Upside Down?

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 3 – Side Up or Upside Down?

The futility of investigating the cooling effectiveness of any empty fridge is beginning to dawn on me, the irony of…

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 2 – TEC Effect

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 2 – TEC Effect

Beer drinkers are notoriously quiet people and as such would not want to be disturbed by the continuous hissing and…

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 1 – A Gift

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 1 – A Gift

My boss, Roland, relocated from Germany to the UK a couple of years ago and has taken to life in…

What Can You Learn When You Turn It On?

What Can You Learn When You Turn It On?

Power on an IC package, measure the resulting transient response of the junction temperature and from that infer a wealth…

We Love FloTHERM – 8 Reasons to Upgrade to V9.1

We Love FloTHERM – 8 Reasons to Upgrade to V9.1

Here at the Mechanical Analysis Department we love FloTHERM and we love developing FloTHERM to ensure it keeps up with…