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
Intelligent Control of Data Center Infrastructures
December 12th, 2011
IO is offering IO OS®, a data center operating system, as a stand-alone software product. Initially introduced in IO’s modular data center technology platform, IO Anywhere®, IO OS now provides IT and data center teams…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
Software Improves Data Center Efficiency
November 21st, 2011
As part of Raritan’s Smart Rack initiative to help data centers improve operations and energy efficiency by adding intelligence throughout data center racks, the company introduced Power IQ® 3.1 Energy Management Software with Smart Rack…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
New Solution Visualization Tools for CFD Thermal Software
October 11th, 2011
Daat Research Corp.’s new solution visualization tools for its award winning Coolit® family of CFD thermal software for electronics will help engineers better appreciate the implications of their design decisions and guide them toward design…read more
Precision USB Laser Diode and Temperature Control
October 11th, 2011
Wavelength Electronics’ USBKIT bus-powered interface board and software package is easily wired using on-board screw terminals and the QuickConnect™ virtual control panel provides out-of-the-box functionality with strip chart graphs that show real-time laser system status.…read more
Converter Family Maximizes Power Supply Efficiency, Minimizes Footprint
September 27th, 2011
Power Integrations introduced HiperLCS, a family of high-voltage LLC power supply ICs that incorporate the controller, high- and low-side drivers, and both MOSFETs into a single low-cost package. Highly integrated HiperLCS ICs offer the flexibility…read more
Software Protects Water Utilities from Terrorist Attacks and Contaminants
September 12th, 2011
An open-source software developed by Sandia National Laboratories in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency tells utility operators within minutes whether something is wrong with their water, giving them time to warn and protect the…read more
Underfloor Electric Heating. Part II – Infrared Thermography
August 19th, 2011
3D simulation can provide a detailed prediction of temperature and heat flux values at 10s of 1000s of points in a 3D model, experimental methods are somewhat limited in terms of the wealth of data…read more
Underfloor Electric Heating. Part I: In by Christmas
August 11th, 2011
It’s been over two years since the foundations went in for the extension we’re building on our house. In that time I’ve come to respect and somewhat rely on glib phrases such as “Good things…read more
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