Heat Sink Bases: a Good Foundation for a Great Solution Heat sinks come in all shapes, sizes, styles, and materials. But a common feature with many heat sinks is the base: the part of the heat sink that contacts the device(s) and supports extra su...

Cool Artificial Intelligence is Making a Big Splash this Summer It's hard to ignore all of the attention diverted towards Artificial Intelligence (AI) recently. But AI isn't a new thing. IBM's Watson whipped two Jeopardy champions a decade ago. De...

Humans in general take regular things for granted. Sometimes, it's only when our regular programming gets disrupted that we realize how much impact these everyday occurrences have on our lives. The big disruption in the US this summer is the total ...

Flow Types in Aavid Genie: Ducted Versus Bypass Flow Aavid Genie has a few different options when it comes to defining flow for your thermal simulation. Genie defaults to having ducted flow for all three flow types in the Flow Definition portion o...

Thermal Convection: A Pillar of Heat Transfer In a majority of thermal management solutions, we use thermal convection as a means to remove heat away from our sensitive components and devices. In the rare case we don't use convection, it's becau...