Practical Thermal Design for Electronic Equipment

This practical reference addresses topics related to thermal cooling of electronic equipment. The text includes numerous examples and calculations from engineering applications and provides design guides for packaging and thermal engineers.

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Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) technology has raised significant considerations of thermal control. This practical reference for thermal and design engineers addresses topics related to thermal cooling of electronic equipment. The text includes numerous examples and calculations from engineering applications and provides design guides for packaging and thermal engineers. It also examines the advancement of technologies in the electronic industry and addresses such questions as: what is the life expectancy of an air moving device?; how does one thermally characterize an electronic component?; how does one choose and optimize heat sink?; and what are the limitations of numerical simulation tools?