In the royal family of thermal IC package modelling types, a detailed model is King. All critical 3D geometry is modelled explicitly, no abstraction into a thermal resistor equivalent model, no hiding all the proprietary design information inside either. Pros and cons of detailed models I covered a few years ago in this blog. Packaged ICs are complex, constructed of many parts, … [Read more...]
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 and conductive affects are considered concurrently. Back in the day much talk was had about turbulence modelling, convective discretisation schemes and linear equation solvers, all typical CFD subjects but somewhat out of place in the … [Read more...]
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 a blog that serves no other purpose than to show a pretty picture. CFD as an acronym has quite a few different interpretations. Contracts for Difference if you’re into your financials. Colour For Directors if you’re in marketing. Cheats, Frauds and … [Read more...]
Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 3: JESD51-14
The JESD51-14 standard was published in November 2010, prepared by the JEDEC JC-15 Committee on Thermal Characterization. It outlines a new process to measure what is the most common IC package thermal metric, Theta_jc. This is the thermal resistance between the die and the package case face. More specifically the face of the package that is to be cooled by an external … [Read more...]
Adaptable Concurrent CFD Simulation Software Provides Ease-of-Use
Mentor Graphics Corporation has announced the newest version of the FloEFD concurrent computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation software. According to the company, the new software version provides a “significant workflow process improvement, including automated geometry clean-up … [and] the ability to mesh complex models.” The software also includes parametric “study and … [Read more...]
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