How to stretch a new project’s thermal management budget by optomizing PCB...
Hardware engineers all bump into this problem eventually: The cost of the heat sink solution part of the thermal management design is out of balance with the overall programs development costs. The...
View ArticleLED Cooling Gets a Boost with Heraeus’ Stamped Circuit Board Technology but...
Yesterday we noted that SinkPAD had announced their new technology to directly cool LED. And now Heraeus, out of Germany, has made an announcement about their Stamped Circuit Board Technology to cool...
View ArticleLED Thermal Management Design: How to decide when it’s worth paying for the...
EDN has a nice article write up on how to decide when it’s worth paying for the lower thermal impedance? Margery Conner, who covers LEDs, solid-state lighting, alternate energy sources, and sensors...
View ArticleIn PCB Design for filled vias, should you use conductive or non-conductive...
PCB Solutions, a provider of high quality circuit boards, has a great post on if conductive or non-conductive thermal epoxy should be used for PCB’s needing filled vias. Â We’ve expounded on the...
View ArticleA case study on removing heatsinks for better thermal management: ATS PCB...
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...
View ArticleHow to Design Out Your Heat Sinks with Smart PCB Thermal Design, December...
We’ve got another webinar on tap, this one for next week, December 15th, 2011 at 2PM EST. Our topic this month is, “How to Design Out Your Heat Sinks with Smart PCB Thermal Design”. It seems like a...
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September Qpedia Thermal eMagazine Released
This Month’s Qpedia Thermal eMagazine has been released! This issue includes the following topics: Direct-Bond-Copper Aluminum Nitride Microchannel Heat Sink for IGBT Modules The advancement in...
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ATS’ maxiFLOW Heat Sinks a Great Match with Altera’s Cyclone V
ATS’ new Heat Sink Selection Tool on www.qats.com allow engineers to match existing ATS heat sinks with specific applications from the top component manufacturer’s in the market. Altera’s Cyclone®...
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New Consulting Project Subscription Plan
ATS has released a Consulting Project Subscription Plan (CPSP) for engineering services. From our corporate headquarters in Norwood, Massachusetts,we offers comprehensive thermal management analysis...
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Flow Visualization in PCB Testing: Part 1
In our first post about flow visualization, we discuss the benefits of flow visualization, along with several primary methods for creating successful flow visualization. Part 1: Best Techniques for Air...
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Flow Visualization in PCB Testing: Part 3
Part 3: Best Wind Tunnels for Flow Visualization In our final post of the 3 part blog series, we discuss lab equipment that easily allow for optimal flow visualization when testing PCBs. Our first two...
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What Cost Reduction Strategies Make New Product Introductions Faster?
Getting to markets faster and in the most cost-effective way is the primary goal of today’s product development process. Choosing a thermal design engineering partner that understands that goal makes a...
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ATS welcomes engineering students from Tufts
Dr. Bahman Tavassoli of Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc. gives a demonstration of a wind tunnel to Dr. Marc Hodes (left) and a group of students from Tufts University. (Advanced Thermal Solutions,...
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Technical Discussion of ATS Telecom PCB solution
Last year, Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc. (ATS) was brought in to assist a customer with finding a thermal solution for a PCB that was included in a data center rack being used in the...
View ArticleCase Study: LED Solution for Outdoor Canopy Array
Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc. (ATS) was approached by a company interested in a new design for an outdoor LED unit that would be installed in gas station canopies. The original unit was bolted...
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Industry Tips for Placing DC/DC Converters on PCB
This article outlines industry tips and suggestions about placing DC/DC power converters on a PCB with other components. (Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc.) The design of a printed circuit board (PCB)...
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Power Brick: #GoldStandard Heat Sinks for DC/DC Converters
ATS Power Brick heat sinks are the #GoldStandard for cooling eighth, quarter, half, and full brick DC/DC power converters. (Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc.) Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc. (ATS) has...
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Choosing the Right Heat Sink Attachment for Densely Populated PCB
In 1965, Fairchild Semiconductor Director of R&D and soon to be Intel co-founder Gordon Moore wrote “The Future of Integrated Electronics,” which was intended as an internal paper to define the...
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Picking the Right Heat Sink Attachment to Avoid Costly PCB Damage
The design of a printed circuit board (PCB) is a complicated process that requires engineers to consider a number of different issues before the board is ready to move beyond prototype and into...
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