Posted Dec 6, 2010, by Nazita Saye
I’ve got the WIFI blues.
Our American skiing buddies (whom we haven’t seen for three years) are making the great trek across the Atlantic ocean for a ski vacation in France. Among the usual list of requirements (good snow and nice range of terrains and activities) was “must have WIFI”. They were happy to compromise on transfer time, travel by car/air/sea/train and even schlep bags on public transport. … Read More
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WiFi,
CFD,
electroincs,
antenna,
Solar,
Thermal Management,
ROI,
Simulation
Posted Jul 19, 2010, by John Parry
If you’re involved in CFD in education in any way this will be of interest to you. Since shortly after Flomerics were acquired by Mentor Graphics we’ve been working towards getting out products into Mentor’s Higher Education Program (HEP), and we’ve finally got it done.
To my knowledge, the availability of potentially millions of dollars worth of commercial CFD software, plus support and training, … Read More
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Mentor HEP,
Higher Education,
Thermal Design,
Concurrent CFD,
Education,
CFD,
Thermal Management,
FloTHERM,
FloVENT,
Upfront CFD,
Electronics Cooling,
FloEFD
Posted Jul 1, 2010, by John Parry
“Authorities in the US have instructed Sony to conduct a recall of its Vaio laptops, after problems with overheating were reported.” started this article on the BBC’s web site.
There is a saying, ” the news is never as good or as bad as it is first reported”. And so it is with this story. It’s not a product recall, as the story later goes on to explain, but what grabbed my attention was that the problem … Read More
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Design Process,
Electronics Cooling,
CFD,
Thermal Design,
Thermal Management,
FloTHERM,
Reliability
Posted Apr 19, 2010, by John Parry
I’ve been remiss in not posting for a couple of weeks, so I’m trying to get back in the saddle. I’ve been working on other things that have taken up a fair bit of time. One is a web seminar on heatsinks – Heatsink 201 – Even More about Heat Sinks which follows on from Alexandra Francois-Saint-Cyr’s very successful Heat Sink 101 web seminar.
Back in March I posted about IBM’s work on liquid cooling … Read More
Tags:
FloVENT,
FloTHERM,
Google,
ASHRAE,
Building HVAC,
Air Cooling,
Green building design,
Data Center,
Liquid Cooling,
Electronics Cooling,
CFD,
Thermal Management,
Cost Saving
Posted Mar 20, 2010, by John Parry
It was very interesting to read this article about the work IBM are undertaking together with École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) on a 3D stacked architecture for multiple cores. The four year collaborative project, called CMOSAIC, promises to deliver an interconnection density from 100 to 10,000 connections per square millimetre … Read More
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LEDs,
LED Cooling,
Liquid Cooling,
CFD,
Cold Plate,
Automotive LEDs,
Thermal Management,
FloTHERM,
Fluid Dynamics,
Electronics Cooling,
FloEFD
Posted Mar 9, 2010, by John Parry
I’m just back from a very productive SEMI-THERM Conference where we launched our new FloTHERM IC product. We had meetings with the editors of 5 leading electronics magazines to coincide with the launch, which was made at our vendor presentation during the exhibition at the start of Tuesday afternoon. Well done to all involved! If you want to see what others are saying about FloTHERM IC check out the … Read More
Tags:
Thermal Design,
SEMI-THERM Conference,
Thermal Management,
DELPHI Model,
Electronics Cooling,
2-Resistor Model,
JEDEC,
JEDEC JC15,
FloTHERM,
FloTHERM IC
Posted Feb 19, 2010, by John Parry
Just a very quick post to alert you to the new ElectronicsCooling Magazine web site. We’ve updated the look of the site to improve navigation ahead of the relaunch of the printed magazine. Here’s just some of the features of the new site:
New look and feel
Search
Improved Article and Content Navigation by author; category (Calculation Corner, New Products, Technical Brief); channel (Industries, … Read More
Tags:
Thermal Management,
Thermal Design,
FloEFD,
FloTHERM.PCB,
FloTHERM,
Electronics Cooling,
Design Process,
FloTHERM.PACK,
CFD
Posted Feb 15, 2010, by John Parry
Back in June I posted ‘Air – Is it Running Out of Gas?’ and put forward the view that for general computing applications air isn’t running out of gas just yet. There are a couple of reasons for that.
One is that I suspect the general public has concerns about leaks. Most people have passed cars stuck on the highway with a blown heater hose and seen water on the ground, and I’ve had an automotive water … Read More
Tags:
Liquid Cooling,
Fluent Design,
Thermal Management,
Asetek,
CAD Embedded,
Apple iMac,
Upfront Analysis,
Electronics Cooling,
FloEFD,
Upfront CFD,
CFD,
Concurrent CFD
Posted Feb 9, 2010, by John Parry
I was on a conference call and WebEx yesterday with the NAFEMS CFD Working Group, of which Mentor Graphics is a member. One of the people on the call had a lot of background noise on his phone, which turned out to be a due to a fan by his desk to keep his computer cool.
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a memory hungry, CPU intensive activity so I guess he was running a fairly substantial case. … Read More
Tags:
Thermal Management,
Thermal Design,
Upfront Analysis,
Concurrent CFD,
Design Process,
CFD,
Upfront CFD,
FloTHERM,
Kolb's Learning Styles,
X-ray Vision,
Electronics Cooling,
Experiential Learning
Posted Feb 3, 2010, by John Parry
I’m off to SEMI-THERM later this month. SEMI-THERM is one of the premier thermal management conferences and has the best exhibition by far.
The conference runs from 21-25 February, the first two days of which are devoted to professional short courses delivered by a number of leading names in electronics cooling, and past recipients of the IEEE’s THERMI Award. Short courses at SEMI-THERM 26 are eligible … Read More
Tags:
Thermal Standards,
FloTHERM,
JEDEC JC15,
Electronics Cooling,
Thermal Design,
Thermal Management,
SEMI-THERM Conference,
SEMI-THERM Exhibition
Jim Martens
Harry Foster
John Day
J VanDomelen
Paul Johnston
Robin Bornoff
Dennis Brophy
Mike Jensen
Colin Walls
Travis Mikjaniec
Per Viklund