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24-26 September 2008, Rome, ItalyAutomatic Electro-Thermal Analysis in MentorGraphics PCB Design SystemK.O. Petrosjanc, P.A. KozynkoElectronics and Electrical Engineering Dept.Moscow State Institute of Electronics and MathematicsMentor Graphics Training Center – MIEMMoscow, Russia, eande@miem.edu.ru, +7 (495) 235-50-42Abstract-Automatic electro-thermal analysis is included intoMentor Graphics PCB Design System. The method ofsimultaneous iteration is used for board-level electro-thermalsimulation. New software tool named TransPower is introducedto couple the electrical (Analog Designer) and thermal(BETAsoft) simulators. The design procedure is fullyautomated, human errors are eliminated, simulation time issignificantly decreased, while accuracy and reliability areincreased.Index Terms- Electro-thermal modeling, automation, PCB.Expedition PCBDesign CaptureAnalog DesignerI. INTRODUCTIONIn modern PCBs component density and operation speedare constantly growing, as result, power densities andtemperatures of components are growing too. In additionmutual thermal interconnections between the componentsbecome important.So the correct thermal modeling is necessary to predict thePCB real behaviour.Nowadays the 2D/3D thermal simulators are used incommercial PCB design systems [1-6] to manually optimizethe placement of components from thermal standpoint.In modern PCBs the electrical parameters of discretesemiconductor devices and IC chips strongly depend on thejunction temperatures. So PCB design methodology basedon self-consistent electro-thermal simulation is mosteffective [7].The original Mentor Graphics flow-chart of thermal PCBanalysis is shown in Fig. 1. It’s seen in Fig. 1 that thepopular thermal simulator BETAsoft-Board [4] is added intoMentor Graphics Expedition PCB Design Flow.Unfortunately, the data transmission of component powersP i from Analog Designer to BETAsoft and componenttemperatures T i from BETAsoft to Analog Designer iscarried out manually by user [5].BETAsoftExpedition PCB4BETAsoftcomponent powers P iData transmissionis manual and time-consumingcomponent temperatures T iFig 1. Original Mentor Graphics flow-chart ofthermal PCB analysis.Design Capture52TransPowerAutomatedEl-Therm simulation67Analog Designer1 3Fig. 2. New fully automated electro-thermal PCB analysis scheme.©<strong>EDA</strong> <strong>Publishing</strong>/THERMINIC 2008 76ISBN: 978-2-35500-008-9

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