Many heat issues can be avoided or resolved when circuit board designs are optimized for thermal management. Optimizing PCBs for thermal management has been proven to ensure reliability, speed time to market and reduce overall costs.
ATS provides a range of PCB design services, from CFD studies on boards at the CAD stage to wind-tunnel testing of actual or dummy boards in conditions that simulate air distribution in actual applications.
In this 2:43 slidecast, we tell you how we do this and provide a case study on how one OEM actually removed heatsinks from their board to improve their thermal management: