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Inside the hot zone
Floorplanning informed by thermal analysis can significantly improve PCB layouts, writes Robin Bornoff The number of PCB design constraints seems ever increasing. The risk that a design will fail...
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The future of thermal simulation for electronics products
Today’s electronics products are ever more tightly integrated. No longer can thermal design be separate from the mechanical and electrical design. It has to be front and center and considered from...
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Noise and manufacturing concerns control design for power-module makers
Size, heat, and efficiency concerns have long plagued the designers of power supplies. Now noise has joined the list, with customers complaining about the sound levels generated by the fans that are...
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A reliability checklist for the Connected World
We live in a Connected World where humans are more reliant upon technology than ever before. Virtually every industry relies upon the Internet to some extent: Medical, automotive, satellite, computing,...
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The Wally Rhines interview – Part One: Mentor as a Siemens business
Siemens’ $4.5B acquisition of Mentor Graphics closed on March 30 and brings a powerful, deep-pocketed player into the EDA market. For Wally Rhines, Mentor’s Chairman and CEO, the deal is a vindication....
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Cooling power electronics at room level
“The most viable method of airflow design prior to testing is with CFD simulation-based design software such as FloEFD. FloEFD allows E-Cooling to quickly build and assess the viability of an airflow...
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