Reducing PCB Respins Web Seminar

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Overview

This seminar will show you why and how to best incorporate thermal constraints into an existing design flow.

It's standard practice to develop electrical and mechanical constraints at a very early stage in the design of electronics and enforce them all the way through to shipping the product. Every bit as important, but less frequently practiced, is the development and enforcement of thermal constraints (ie, maximum allowable temperatures) in the design flow.

Given the complexity and thermal densities of today's electronic products, failure to enforce thermal constraints concurrently with electrical and mechanical constraints is a risky strategy. The 'thermal bandaid' approach (ie, leaving all thermal re-design cycles until the end) can be extremely costly and time consuming.

What You Will Learn

  • How to develop thermal constraints
  • How to incorporate thermal constraints into a design flow
  • Why late thermal fixes adversely affect the design flow

About the Presenter

Presenter Image Byron Blackmore

Product Manager – Electronics Cooling
Mentor Graphics, Mechanical Analysis Division

Byron Blackmore is currently the Product Manager for FloTHERM PCB. Byron has been with Flomerics/Mechanical Analysis Division for 9 years, and has previously acted as the Electronics Cooling Engineering Supervisor for North America. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Nova Scotia and an MS in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in fluid dynamics and heat transfer from the University of Alberta.

Who Should Attend

  • Those responsible for electronics design flow efficiency or those responsible for thermal management
  • PCB Designers
  • Thermal 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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