Electronic products, and products that contain electronics, are typified by being constructed of 100s if not 1000s of individual parts. A CPU alone is the most complex manufactured product on earth as demonstrated in this excellent picture story on Tom’s Hardware. From the IC through package, PCB and chassis, items are glued, cured, soldered, screwed and assembled into … [Read more...]
Top 10 FloTHERM V10 Features – #1: New GUI
FloTHERM V10 is a major release that marks 25 years as the leading electronics thermal simulation tool. This series will introduce the top 10 features that we’ve delivered, hopefully giving some insights not just on the features themselves, but also on the background as to how and why we’ve developed them. To start with let’s look at the most obvious change, a … [Read more...]
Happy 25th Birthday FloTHERM !
Late in 1988 two key employees of CHAM (Concentration Heat And Momentum Ltd.), the first commercial CFD vendor and at the time market leader, left to set up a new type of CFD company. Recognising the opportunity to package CFD in focussed, highly automated and application specific products, David Tatchell and Harvey Rosten started to develop what would become FloTHERM. A CFD … [Read more...]
Thermal Venting with Thermal Vias
Thermal vias are merely one tool, albeit sometimes an important tool, in the thermal engineer's arsenal of techniques for getting heat away from potentially overheating electronics components. The problem is, vias don't actually "cool" a hot device in and of themselves. As their name implies ("vias"), what they really are is nothing more than a short pathway for unwanted heat … [Read more...]
Alumina Substrate Packs More Passive Components into Less Space
Today’s electronic device market is characterized by two conflicting demands: more power, less space. As users come to expect ever more capabilities from ever smaller electronics, electrical engineers are in need of innovative and efficient new solutions for packing more components into shrinking board space. However, this pressure isn’t limited to iPhones, tablets, and other … [Read more...]
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