Author Archive for Byron Blackmore

creating PCB thermal conductivity maps using image processing

September 13th, 2010

Byron Blackmore Mentor Graphics Corporation Introduction Thermal conduction into a printed circuit board (PCB) is often an important part of the critical heat transfer path in electronic devices. Efficiently capturing the effect of the heterogeneous…read more

technical brief: thermal bottlenecks and shortcut opportunities; innovations in electronics thermal design simulation

September 13th, 2010

Introduction Cooling an electronics system involves transferring heat from various heat sources to the outside ambient. Thermal simulation software provides practitioners with predictions of the temperature and heat flux distributions in and around the system,…read more