Resources about heat-sink design and thermal theory

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This is one of the best theory about Heat-Sinks.

 

[FANT]

heatsink design calculations

Look at

www.aavid.com

There is a good program about heat sink selection and design.

Mandi

 

[g579]

heat sink design calculation

FANT,
Where can I find at aavid the selection and design program ? I didn't find it.
Thanks.

 

[flatulent]

heatsink design

Here is one version of the program. It is called coolcat

The second version is the most recent.

 

[zgx]

heat sink design software

here is another application note"mounting considerations for power semiconductors"

 

[g579]

heatsink design software

flatulent, zgx,
Thank you for the uploaded files.
PS. I went again to aavid. The coolcat program is there really, but not at first glance reachable.

 

[calvinhorng]

pcb heatsink design

Thank you for the great resources.
But most of the time, I use copper on the PCB for heat dissipation.
I also comsume lots of PCB space.

The area of the copper poly on the PCB must
be calcuated by hand. I wonder if anyone has any
applcaition program for calculating the area?

Thank you for any information

 

[flatulent]

heat sink selection software

Since you have the formulas you use by hand, you could automate the calculations with a spread sheet. Over the years I have done this many times and used the spread sheets as needed years later.

 

[cross]

calcul of heat sink book

Peter Vizmuller's RF Design Guide , includes with the book some excell files for thermal resistance calculations. I tihink I have seen the complete ebook posted in the ebook section. If you want it and cannot find it I will upload it.

Cross

 

[Gemini1706]

heat sink design calculations

flatulent, I agree that you can use a spreadsheet, but not in complex situations, where you have tapered-fins, multi-angle fins, different manufacturing capabilities...etc.
Powerful software packages can do much more than just simple "cascaded" claculations.

Cheers.

 

[jzo777n]

heat sinkdesign for pcb

Transmeta has a good thermal guide with an example how you design a notebook.
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[dainis]

heat sink design

Other links:
www.thermacore.com./papers.htm
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www.irf.com/technical-info/appnotes/an-1000.pdf
www.irf.com/technical-info/appnotes/an-1012.pdf
www.irf.com/technical-info/appnotes/an-994.pdf
www.home.earthlink.net/~lotusblossom/index.html
www.ecooling.com/references.html
www.thermoanalytics.com/support/links/links-thermal.html

 

[hienpv]

heat sink design guide

 

[hienpv]

heat sink mechanical

 

[hienpv]

software design heatsink

 

[hienpv]

heatsink calculations spreadsheet

 

[dainis]

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AMD Thermal, Mechanical and Chassis Cooling Design Guide.pdf

Free link for download:
https://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/23794.pdf