Cooling hot chips
Cooling hot chips
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I'm trying to figure out how to cool a circuit board with a lot of hot chips. We can supply pretty good airflow so I think the main thing is sizing heat sinks to see if it's feasible.
After wading through heat sink catalogs I think we may need a custom design. I can find lots of info on heat sink design but I wonder if anyone on this forum can recommend the best set of formulas or tools for this? I'd like to try a CFD program but we just don't have the budget...
After wading through heat sink catalogs I think we may need a custom design. I can find lots of info on heat sink design but I wonder if anyone on this forum can recommend the best set of formulas or tools for this? I'd like to try a CFD program but we just don't have the budget...





RE: Cooling hot chips
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RE: Cooling hot chips
Randeep, you hit on one of the problems I'm having. The heat sink performance curves are based on tests with different heat source sizes, so I'm not sure how they'll really perform. The hottest chip is a 40W FCBGA with an 11 x 8 mm die on top.
The board itself is about 250 x 300 mm with about 35mm above for heat sinks or whatever. There's plenty of room for fans to supply good airflow entering across the board.
IRstuff, most of the chips have a better thermal path to the top, not the board.
ko (www.ecooling.biz)
RE: Cooling hot chips
Some links that might help you:
Heat spreading:
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Heat sink design:
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ko (www.ecooling.biz)
RE: Cooling hot chips
David