Heatsink 101: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know Web Seminar

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Overview

As the power density of electronics devices go up, so does the need for chip and system thermal management. One way to cool the components down is to add a heat sink. Heat sinks uses conduction, convection and sometimes radiation to enhance the heat transfer from a hot surface to a cooler fluid. Many factors such as cost, manufacturability and weight need to be considered when choosing a heat sink. How the heat sink gets attached to the component is also critical.

During this 45 minute presentation, we will focus on how heat sinks work and how to design a heat sink while considering all the critical factors such as size, airflow, cost and attachment methods. We will also investigate how, using simulation, the heat sink design could be optimized and validated in the application environment. Engineers involved in board and chassis design would find this session very educational.

What You Will Learn

  • How to design a heat sink for a specific electronics cooling application
  • To visualize the airflow around the heat sink and identify potential bypass areas
  • Estimate heat sink thermal resistance
  • Use Response Surface Optimization to come up with the best heat sink design for the considered environment

About the Presenter

Presenter Image Alexandra Francois-Saint-Cyr

Alexandra Francois-Saint-Cyr is the Applications Engineering Manager for North America at Mentor Graphics, Mechanical Analysis Division (Previously Flomerics). For the past 8 years, she has been working on promoting the use of the Mentor Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software by conducting training classes, seminars and software demonstrations.

After graduating from ESSTIN, France’s State Graduate School of Engineering back in 1997, Alex studied to improve passenger comfort in the trains at Alstom Transport by using CFD software FloVENT. In 1999, she moved to the United States where she received her MSME from the University of Central Florida. There she worked on a meso-scale centrifugal compressor project, her research leading to the ‘Best Technical Paper’ award in the Advanced Energy Systems Division at the International ASME show in 2000

Who Should Attend

  • Engineers who have thermal problems with electronic based applications
  • Technical Managers
  • Thermal Engineers
  • Board and Chassis Engineers
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Technical Requirements

What do I need to watch and hear this web seminar?

Mentor Graphics’ web seminars are delivered using Adobe Connect. To watch the seminar all you need to have installed is the Adobe Flash Player, version 8 or later on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris. The Flash Player is already installed on over 98% of internet connected computers worldwide so you will not have to install any software prior to attending the meeting. You will be able to login to the seminar room 15 minutes prior to the start time on the day of the presentation. You can hear the audio using your computer’s speakers via VoIP (Voice over IP) and background music will play prior to the beginning of the presentation.

Detailed system requirements

Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business, or Enterprise (32-bit edition)

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or later
  • Mozilla Firefox 2
  • Adobe Flash® Player 8 or later

Microsoft Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition with Service Pack 2

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x
  • Mozilla 1.x or later
  • Netscape 7.x
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x
  • Mozilla 1.x
  • Netscape 8
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Windows hardware requirements

  • Intel® Pentium® II 450MHz or faster processor or equivalent (1GHz recommended when screen sharing)
  • 128MB of RAM

Mac OS X v10.4, 10.5 (Intel)

  • Firefox 1.5.0.3, 2.x
  • Safari 2.x
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Mac OS X v10.4 (PowerPC®)

  • Safari 1.x, 2.x
  • Firefox 1.x
  • Mozilla 1.x
  • Netscape 7.x or later
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Mac OS hardware requirements

  • PowerPC G3 500MHz or faster or Intel Core™ Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor
  • 128MB of RAM

Linux:

  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (REHL) 3 update 8; RHEL 4 update 4 (AS/ES/WS); Novell SUSE® 9.x or 10.1
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7, 2.x
  • Mozilla 1.7.x
  • SeaMonkey 1.0.5
  • Processor: Modern processor 800MHz or faster (1GHz recommended)
  • Memory: 512MB of RAM; 128MB of graphics memory
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 or later

Solaris™

  • Mozilla 1.7
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 or later

Additional requirements

  • Minimum bandwidth 56Kbps

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