Author Archive for John Parry

Using CAD-embedded CFD upfront and throughout the design process is the only way to go when it comes to compressing design schedules. We call this approach Concurrent CFD, as the CFD analysis can be done concurrently with design changes, taking upfront CFD to the next level. The product’s performance can be checked at each design [...]

Are you concerned with the thermal design of electronics systems? Are you a thermal, mechanical or electrical engineer wrestling with product design issues? Or are you an engineering manager or director concerned with improving your team’s overall design flow? Then Mentor’s new Electronics Cooling community is for you.
No electronics cooling or thermal design topic is [...]

Mentor’s Thermal Design Software Is The Best. OK, say’s who?
It’s the conclusion from some independent research carried out by Aberdeen Research Group. Last time I showed that Aberdeen had found that Mentor’s customers are almost 3 times faster at completing thermal verification than users of other tools. Let’s take a look at why that is.
Aberdeen [...]

It could save your company a shed load of time and money…
Interested?
OK, here’s some research by Aberdeen Group, which I presented at several of the recent Solutions Expos. First off, the Mechanical Analysis Division’s customers choose Mentor’s tools because they recognise them as being the best. They don’t just make do with tools available as [...]

Just a quick post to let you know yours truly will be giving a presentation on:
Thermal Design: A Key Part of the Electronics Design Flow
At the UK Solutions Expo at the Heritage Motor Centre in Gaydon on 12th November.
Miniaturization continues to increase power densities at all packaging levels, forcing design teams to identify new methods [...]

I read in the news this last week that Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a Brit and the inventor of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually “unnecessary”…
and it seems that polar ice will be gone in the summer, perhaps by as early as 2020, opening the arctic [...]

Hmmm…
If you’re guessing it’s a chip package, you’re right – got it in one. Well done!
OK, so what type of package is it?
If you’re thinking it’s a silly question as you don’t know anything about the package, other than I’ve told you its black – that was a hint that it’s an encapsulated plastic part [...]