AS PROMISED IN MY editorial of the 2011 Fall issue, I will devote this issue’s column on the topic of heat spreading. The reason is that I, while writing a white paper on basic thermal…read more
Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 3 – Relieving Thermal Bottlenecks Reduce Temperatures
February 10th, 2012
As with all good inventions, you quickly wonder how on earth you could have done without them before. Relieving thermal bottlenecks reduce temperatures; it’s so blindingly obvious. Now that we have the ability to visualise…read more
Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 2 – When TIMs Go Bad
January 30th, 2012
‘Bits stuck onto other bits’, a succinct definition of an electronic product, if not a product that contains electronics. Soldering is the method of choice for getting the components to attach to the pcb, the…read more
Has Your Brand Image Been Hijacked?
January 25th, 2012
Electronics Cooling Business Bulletin Volume 6 | January 2012 In a recent article entitled “Who is Managing Your Brand Image?” my colleague, Graham Kilshaw, explained how customer behavior has effected a significant shift in marketing,…read more
Bridging the Simulation Supply Chain; NXP Semiconductors, a Case in Point
January 22nd, 2012
By far and away the most common enquiry by someone using FloTHERM, especially at the start of their adoption, is “How do I model my components?”. This is hardly surprising as the mainstay of electronics…read more
Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 1 – Great Thermal Bedfellows
January 18th, 2012
Probably due to the beer fridge, I now seem to be becoming the repository of broken electronic products with an expectation that the cause of their demise can be identified, retrospectively, using thermal simulation. This…read more
Emails, more Emails and Jeff Bridges
January 9th, 2012
It’s estimated that, from a figure of 0.4% in 1995, now about 30% of the world’s population are ‘internet users’. Not sure exactly what being a ‘user’ entails; looking at a web page? clicking a…read more
LEDs; The future’s bright and hot.
January 3rd, 2012
LED based lighting is now a very hot topic (believe me, in electronic thermal management circles that used to be funny, the first few times). Control of packaged IC junction temperatures will always have a…read more
ElectronicsCooling December 2011 Issue
December 1st, 2011
Don’t miss out on the December 2011 issue of ElectronicsCooling, which includes feature articles on data center design, electro-thermal simulation of power, energy reduction and performance maximization as well as technical briefs. If you would…read more
Thermal Management Technologies: a $10.9 Billion Market by 2016
November 29th, 2011
ElectronicsCooling Business Bulletin Volume 5 | December 2011 According to a recent study by BBC Research, the global market for thermal management products, which currently stands at approximately $8 billion, is expected to grow over…read more
What! All that just for that? The bonkers world of CPU cooling.
November 17th, 2011
My colleague Ed and I were marvelling the other day at the CPU cooling unit from one of our training desktop PCs undergoing a repair. “What, all that just for that!?”. The CPU itself was…read more
Ho, Ho, Ho! Facebook moves to Lapland
October 28th, 2011
What do you call someone who doesn’t believe in Father Christmas? A rebel without a Claus. Right, that’s that out of the way. This week Facebook announced that it plans to build a 3x 300,000…read more
All Detailed Thermal IC Package Models are Wrong… Probably
October 20th, 2011
‘Rubbish In -> Rubbish Out’ is a well accepted fact in the world of simulation. Regardless of the technical capabilities of your thermal simulation tool, the accuracy of prediction will always be tightly coupled to…read more
Underfloor Electric Heating. Part III – Penny wise, pound foolish.
October 18th, 2011
It would only have cost me an extra £170, a small extra compared to the cost of the rest of the build, but I decided against laying thermal insulation boards directly under the underfloor electric…read more
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