{"id":69,"date":"2010-02-18T17:17:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T17:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatsinks.wordpress.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2016-02-19T15:10:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T19:10:51","slug":"cutting-the-power-in-ics-dont-forget-to-keep-thermal-design-in-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/2010\/02\/18\/cutting-the-power-in-ics-dont-forget-to-keep-thermal-design-in-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting The Power in IC’s? Don’t forget to keep thermal design in mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" John Blyler over at the Lower Power Engineering community has a nice post up about “Cutting The Power<\/a>“.\u00c2\u00a0 Whereby he discusses how new design starts are all driving to the lower power ranges.\u00c2\u00a0 He notes that:<\/p>\n

Recent analysis of cumulative data that track of architectural exploration of chip design projects \u00e2\u20ac\u201c precursors to design starts, which now number more than 96,000 distinct investigations since 2005 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c show a definite interest in specific power regions, namely; 0.25 watts to 1 watt, 1.5 watts to 4 watts, and even 5 watts to 15 watts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since ATS cools many of these chip designs, we’re delighted to see this trend since the products that these products should drive are going to be cooler, have longer MTBF and be smaller.<\/p>\n

In our experience, designers will sometimes pack even more of these low power devices into ever smaller packages with less airflow and more need for being passive cooled (no fans).\u00c2\u00a0 Such designs can be very difficult thermally IF they are started at the last minute.<\/p>\n

So, as our EE design friends start to implement these exciting new lower power designs in products, don’t forget to architect in the thermal system design at the front end of your design process.\u00c2\u00a0 You’ll get a better thermal design that is more effective and less costly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Blyler over at the Lower Power Engineering community has a nice post up about “Cutting The Power“.\u00c2\u00a0 Whereby he discusses how new design starts are all driving to the lower power ranges.\u00c2\u00a0 He notes that: Recent analysis of cumulative … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consulting","category-thermal-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}