FloTHERM Software's Thermal Analysis Bottleneck and Shortcut Innovation

Together,the Bn and the Sc fields elevate the use of simulation from an observation toolwhich identifies heat management problems to an effective thermal designproblem-solving tool which suggests potential solutions to the designer.

The Bn fieldshows where in a design the heat path is being congested as it attempts to flowfrom high junction temperature points to ambient. Design changes to thesebottlenecks can help solve the heat flow problem. The Sc field highlightspossible solutions where the addition of a simple element to the design willprovide a new effective heat flow path to further cool the system.

Twoadditional enhancements have been made in the new FloTHERM v.9 product: XML model andgeometry data importing to enable FloTHERM integration into existing dataflows and a direct interface to the Mentor Graphics Expedition PCB designplatform. The direct interface enables users to import native Expedition PCBdata and delete or edit additional objects (heatsinks, thermal vias, boardcutouts, EM cans).



The FloTHERMsoftware is compatible with other Mentor products.