PCB/Electronics: Thermal Management, Cooling and Derating
Genre: eLearning | MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: aac, 48000 Hz
Language: English | VTT | Size: 406 MB | Duration: 1.5 hours

What you'll learn
Design a PCB/electronic application using comprehensive approach to thermal management, cooling and component derating for reliability.
Know what heatsinks are, their most important aspects and how to choose them for a proper thermal management and cooling.
Undersand and choose heat sink mounting techniques and thermal interface materials.
Understand the use of fans in thermal management and cooling, their impact on heat sinks thermal resistance and parameters.
Master thermal aspects with respect to PCB routing and design (copper plane, vias and similar) and parameters influencing it.
Understand re-rating and de-rating of electronics components (derating power, voltage, currents, fan out, and so on).
Master the reliability aspects of thermal management, cooling and derating, especially with respect to electrical and thermal stress factors.
Analyse, calculate, and design the hardware thermal control of a PCB.
Cool components in PCB design using a proper approach.
Understand the most used cooling techniques and all the parameters influencing it.

Requirements
Knowledge of the basic electronic concepts, like current, voltage, power and Ohm's law.
Knowledge of common electronic components (transistors, capacitors, and other devices of widespread use) and basic PCB concepts.
Description
This course is about cooling, thermal management and derating in PCB design.

After introducing the basic definitions, it provides a clear and logical path to a complete design of thermal aspects.

- It starts with calculating the dissipated power for different types of components, and understanding whether the thermal equilibrium is optimal or we need a thermal management strategy.

- Then it introduces heat sinks, which is by far the most used cooling approach, talking about their features, mounting techniques, parameters and so on.

- Than it speaks about thermal interface materials, used to couple heat sinks to integrated circuits, their types and characteristics.

- It also speaks about the forced air cooling technique, introducing how to calculate a fan performance and its impact on the heat sink thermal resistance.